Management Techniques for a Diverse and Cross-Cultural Workforce

Management Techniques for a Diverse and Cross-Cultural Workforce
Author: Sharma, Naman
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2018-02-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 152254934X

Workforce diversity refers to a strategy that promotes and supports the integration of human diversification in business. By utilizing focused inclusion policies and practices, businesses can guide work environments and create an optimal business culture. Management Techniques for a Diverse and Cross-Cultural Workforce is a critical scholarly resource that examines the emerging work culture to understand the underlying human processes prevalent in modern organizations. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics, such as gender diversity, workforce trends, and inclusion management, this book is geared towards business owners, managers, entrepreneurs, professionals, researchers, and students seeking current research on diversity management.

Management Practices for Engaging a Diverse Workforce

Management Practices for Engaging a Diverse Workforce
Author: Manish Gupta
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2020-11-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000711684

This unique volume shows how to tackle the challenges of diversity in the workplace. It addresses the need to keep the workforce engaged while taking into consideration the diverse backgrounds of employees. The book explores 12 themes of workforce diversity and culture, including differences of race, religion, gender, sexuality, income class, education level, marital status, generation/age, physical ability, and more. Focusing on the benefits of engaging a diverse workforce, the volume considers the issue through the different stages of the human resource process, including recruitment, selection, performance appraisal, demand forecasting, supply forecasting, job description and specification, job analysis and evaluation, training and development, career planning and development, succession planning, etc. Employing an abundance of case studies, the volume enables readers to comprehend what it means to have a diverse workforce and how to engage such a workforce for the betterment of the employees as well as the employer. The volume acts as a textbook for courses on diversity in human resource management as well as a valuable resource for HRM and other management professionals. The discussions and questions sections will be useful for faculty, and the short case studies are designed to keep students interested and engaged.

Intercultural Management in Practice

Intercultural Management in Practice
Author: Meena Chavan
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2021-08-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1839828269

Modern-day business leaders need to manage diverse global organisations and teams that work in international contexts. This text will assist organisations of all types to manage diversity and promote inclusion in their national and international operations and markets.

The Oxford Handbook of Leadership and Organizations

The Oxford Handbook of Leadership and Organizations
Author: David Day
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 913
Release: 2014-05-20
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0190213779

As the leadership field continues to evolve, there are many reasons to be optimistic about the various theoretical and empirical contributions in better understanding leadership from a scholarly and scientific perspective. The Oxford Handbook of Leadership and Organizations brings together a collection of comprehensive, state-of-the-science reviews and perspectives on the most pressing historical and contemporary leadership issues - with a particular focus on theory and research - and looks to the future of the field. It provides a broad picture of the leadership field as well as detailed reviews and perspectives within the respective areas. Each chapter, authored by leading international authorities in the various leadership sub-disciplines, explores the history and background of leadership in organizations, examines important research issues in leadership from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives, and forges new directions in leadership research, practice, and education.

The Culture Map

The Culture Map
Author: Erin Meyer
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2014-05-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1610392590

An international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this insightful and practical guide, perfect for both your work and personal life. Americans precede anything negative with three nice comments; French, Dutch, Israelis, and Germans get straight to the point; Latin Americans and Asians are steeped in hierarchy; Scandinavians think the best boss is just one of the crowd. It's no surprise that when they try and talk to each other, chaos breaks out. In The Culture Map, INSEAD professor Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain in which people from starkly different backgrounds are expected to work harmoniously together. She provides a field-tested model for decoding how cultural differences impact international business, and combines a smart analytical framework with practical, actionable advice.

Negotiating Globally

Negotiating Globally
Author: Jeanne M. Brett
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2012-10-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118572254

When it was first published in 2001, Negotiating Globally quickly became the basic reference for managers who needed to learn how to negotiate successfully across boundaries of national culture. This thoroughly revised and expanded second edition preserves the structure of the acclaimed first edition and improves upon it, making it even easier to learn how to navigate national culture when negotiating deals, resolving disputes, and making decisions in teams. Rather than offering country-specific protocol and customs, Negotiating Globally provides a general framework to help negotiators anticipate and manage cultural differences. This new edition incorporates the lessons of the latest research with new emphasis on executing a negotiation strategy and negotiating conflict in multicultural teams. The well-received chapter on “Government At and Around the Table” has been expanded and updated with new examples that span the globe. In this comprehensive resource, Jeanne M. Brett describes how to develop a negotiation planning document and shows how to execute the plan. She provides a model that explains how the cultural environment affects negotiators’ interests, priorities, and strategies. She provides benchmarks for distinguishing good deals from poor ones and good negotiators from poor ones. The book explains how resolving disputes is different from making deals and how negotiation strategy can be used in multicultural teams. Negotiating Globally challenges negotiators to expand their repertoire of strategies so that they will be able to close deals, resolve disputes, and get teams to make decisions.

Managing Cultural Diversity in Small and Medium-Sized Organizations

Managing Cultural Diversity in Small and Medium-Sized Organizations
Author: Torsten M. Kühlmann
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2017-01-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3658166169

Torsten M. Kühlmann and Ramona Heinz developed this guideline in reference to a European project designed to analyze the overall situation of skilled immigrants. They show that the management of a workforce which is comprised of people from diverse cultural backgrounds is a challenge for small and medium-sized companies. In particular, the challenge is not only to find but also to integrate and retain immigrant workers and to use their potential to a full extent. This guideline has been developed in order to meet these challenges. It has a special focus on small to medium-sized organizations and sets out to give an introduction to the topic of “managing cultural diversity” and “integrating highly skilled immigrants.”

Incivility Among Nursing Professionals in Clinical and Academic Environments: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Incivility Among Nursing Professionals in Clinical and Academic Environments: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Author: Green, Cheryl
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2019-04-26
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1522573429

Traditionally, nursing is acknowledged as a caring profession and is associated with advocating for others. However, incivility is increasingly occurring amongst nurses, both in the clinical and academic environments, and is causing affected nurses both psychological and physical harm. Incivility Among Nursing Professionals in Clinical and Academic Environments: Emerging Research and Opportunities provides emerging views and consequences surrounding workplace bullying in the healthcare profession including recognizing the signs and symptoms of incivility in the workplace, identifying ways in which affected nurses can seek help, and examining healthy methods of coping with the incivility. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as human resources, therapy, and clinical nursing, this book is ideally designed for nurses, managers, healthcare workers and consumers, hospital and clinical staff, researchers, students, and policymakers.

Handbook of Research on Cross-Cultural Business Education

Handbook of Research on Cross-Cultural Business Education
Author: Maheshkar, Chandan
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 494
Release: 2018-06-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1522537775

Due to the impact of globalization, business practices have been constantly evolving throughout the twenty-first century. Teachers and instructors are faced with the challenges of educating future business leaders on evolving concepts such as diversity, cultural environments, and the integration of countries and economies. Through these challenges, it is critical for educators to understand teaching tools and pedagogical practices that bring this globalized outlook into the classroom. The Handbook of Research on Cross-Cultural Business Education is an important research publication that explores the role of teaching tools used in business education to increase competitive business skills and make them applicable in cross-cultural business environments. It also provides business and management educators with teaching practices that promote learning via exposure to global cultures. Featuring a broad array of topics such as pedagogical modeling, cross-cultural learning, and social responsibility, this is an important resource for business and management educators, business managers, policy makers, researchers, business professionals, and graduate students.

Multiculturalism in the Workplace

Multiculturalism in the Workplace
Author: Theresa De Jesus Paris Ph D
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-06-09
Genre: Cross-cultural orientation
ISBN: 9781475122619

"With the ever increasing global economic interaction that often involves the workplace, it is imperative that we deepen our understanding of the dynamics of communication among different cultures. Through clear and precise examples, Dr. Theresa Paris' book succinctly exemplifies the basic broad differences of cultures and the importance of understanding cultural interaction in the workplace, based on work developed by Dr. Geert Hofstede, a pioneer and international leading scientist in the field of International Communication. These basic principles are applicable to most cultures. This book is a must for managers and students, and offers general information to all who wish to expand their knowledge of people to people interaction." Hector Robertin Ph.D. "Multiculturalism in the Workplace engages everyone from the expert to the lay reader in principles validated through academic research. Through Barb's story, the reader is invited to explore the high level of misunderstanding among cultures and seek solutions for collaborative team development. Dr. Paris has simplified the understanding of Hofstede's research on cultural measurements in business by connecting them to different cultural traits, such as individualism and collectivism. Even the newest person to the study of multiculturalism will acquire excellent tools for interpreting actions and behaviors within his/her own environment." Sharon Seeberger, B.A.