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.

Managing a Diverse Workforce

Managing a Diverse Workforce
Author: Gary N. Powell
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2010-11-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1452237662

Experiential activities help students understand workplace diversity This book shows readers how to create an inclusive work environment and culture that can value and leverage the contributions of all members, regardless of personal characteristics that are not pertinent to the job. To achieve this, the book provides a comprehensive set of learning activities that address issues related to workplace diversity. Drawing on a variety of work settings, including both business and not-for-profit organizations, Managing a Diverse Workforce, Third Edition will be an invaluable asset for human resource development courses in departments of management, public administration, and human services. It is a perfect companion to core texts on workforce diversity, including Gary Powell′s Women and Men in Management, Fourth Edition (SAGE).

Managing Diversity in Organizations

Managing Diversity in Organizations
Author: Barbara Beham
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2013-07-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3834938696

Diversity management has recently attracted a lot of attention in both academia and practice. Globalization, migration, demographic changes, low fertility rates, a scarce pool of qualified labor, and women entering the workforce in large scales have led to an increasingly heterogeneous workforce in the past twenty years. In response to those ongoing changes, organizations have started to create work environments which address the needs and respond to the opportunities of a diverse workforce. The implementation of diversity policies and practices and the creation of an organizational culture that values heterogeneity have been the focus of recent organizational initiatives. This special issue aims at shedding light on some of open research questions by including both theoretical and empirical contributions.

Managing Diversity

Managing Diversity
Author: Michalle E. Mor Barak
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2016-09-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1483386112

Winner of the George R. Terry Book Award from Academy of Management and the Outstanding Academic Title Award from CHOICE Magazine Successful management of our increasingly diverse workforce is one of the most important challenges facing organizations today. In the Fourth Edition of her award-winning text, Managing Diversity, author Michàlle E. Mor Barak argues that inclusion is the key to unleashing the potential embedded in a multicultural workforce. This thoroughly updated new edition includes the latest research, statistics, policy, and case examples. A new chapter on inclusive leadership explores the diversity paradox and unpacks how leaders can leverage diversity to increase innovation and creativity for competitive advantage. A new chapter devoted to “Practical Steps for Creating an Inclusive Workplace” presents a four-stage intervention and implementation model with accompanying scales that can been used to assess inclusion in the workplace, making this the most practical edition ever.

Managing an Age-Diverse Workforce

Managing an Age-Diverse Workforce
Author: E. Parry
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2010-11-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230299113

Unique in the multiple approaches that it encompasses, this book includes discussions of both older and younger workers, employer and employee perspectives, generational and age diversity and international comparisons. It includes both conceptual argument and empirical research in order to provide insights into this important area.

Workforce America!: Managing Employee Diversity as a Vital Resource

Workforce America!: Managing Employee Diversity as a Vital Resource
Author: Marilyn Loden
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1991
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

A practical guide that shows that managing diversity as avital resource can lead to increased creativity, innovation, and enhanced productivity--beneficial to both the organization and its employees.

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.

Handbook of Workplace Diversity

Handbook of Workplace Diversity
Author: Alison M Konrad
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2006-01-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780761944225

Showcases the scope of international perspectives that exist on workplace diversity and defines this field. This book is a useful resource for students and academics of human resource management, organisational behaviour, organisational psychology and organisation studies.

Managing Diversity In Public Sector Workforces

Managing Diversity In Public Sector Workforces
Author: Norma Riccucci
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2018-03-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429978707

Addresses increased diversity in government work forces, and management strategies appropriate for managing diversity. Today, public employers are poised to create productive work forces that are represented of the global population. As we enter the twenty-first century, Americas workforce looks markedly different than it ever has before. Compared with even twenty years ago, more white women, people of color, disabled persons, new and recent immigrants, gays and lesbians, and intergenerational mixes now work in America. The way in which government employers embrace this opportunity of diversity will clearly distinguish effective and efficient organizations from those which are unproductive and unable to meet the demands and necessities of the American people in the new century. This book addresses the demographic changes to the labor force and workplace and the ways in which government employers are managing the imminently diverse populations that now fill public sector jobs. It addresses the specific management strategies and initiatives relied upon by public sector employers as well as the implications of effectively managing variegated workforces for the overall governance of American society.

Managing Diversity and Inclusion

Managing Diversity and Inclusion
Author: Jawad Syed
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2019-12-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1526485842

Written and edited by leading experts in the field, this authoritative account sets UK and European practices firmly within a global context. It offers an in-depth and contextual account of enduring, contemporary and cutting edge theories and approaches to diversity and inclusion management. With workforce demographics changing rapidly, high-profile cases of discrimination in the news and new legislation coming into force, it is more crucial than ever that organisations understand and effectively manage workplace diversity – not only to increase business outcomes, but to create an inclusive workplace in a socially responsible manner. This second edition includes an engaging new chapter on social class and diversity, as well as a range of new mini case studies on contemporary issues and themes such as intersectionality and autism employment. Packed with learning features to encourage critical analysis and help you link theory to real-world practice, Managing Diversity and Inclusion offers an in-depth and contextual account of enduring and cutting edge discussions and approaches to diversity and inclusion management.