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- a difference between people, for example, in race, age, gender, disability, geographic origin, family status, education, or personality, that can affect workplace relationships and achievement. Diversity management aims to value...
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- Boardroom Diversity is Still Only Skin Deep
- Companies are very good at diversity, if you believe their annual reports. On the cover there are likely to be photographs of a melting pot of races, religions, minorities and at least two genders. This diversity will then give way to reality inside the report which will...
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
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- Sixth International Congress on Sex and Gender Diversity: the Sixth International Congress on Sex and Gender Diversity will take place in the U.K. from 10-12 September 2004.(Conferences & Announcements)
- The Congress is an interdisciplinary conference on transgender, intersexuality, transsexuals and related aspects of sex and gender. The gathering is intended to be a meeting place for academics, clinical practitioners and the sex and gender-diverse communities. It is sponsored by Press For Change PFC, a political...
- Research articles 2004-04-01
- Beyond Race and Gender. - book reviews
- Managing diversity Beyond Race and Gender. By R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr. New York, American Management Association, 1991. 189 pp. $22.95, cloth. Managing Workforce 2000: Gaining the Diversity Advantage. By David Jamieson and Julie O'Mara. San Francisco, CA, Jossey Bass Publishers, 1991. 241 pp. $27.95. The Hudson Institute's...
- Research articles 1992-06-01
- Cummings, S. M., & Galambos, C. . . Diversity and Aging in the Social Environment
- Cummings, S. M., & Galambos, C. (Eds.). (2005). Diversity and Aging in the Social Environment. New York: Haworth Press. $17.95 paper. This single source is designed to help social service professionals provide effective services to America's vastly diverse and rapidly growing elderly population. It explores the impact of race/ethnicity,...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- Gender Diversity Is Good for the Bottom Line
- In February, the research firm Catalyst reported that after years of gains the number of women serving on boards of directors had actually declined. While that's certainly bad for diversity and raises a good number of questions as to why the trend has reversed, Catalyst has also found it is...
- Blog posts 2007-10-02
- The Case For Global Diversity: Four Tips On What Works
- Chief executive officers and top managers have been giving lip service to the concept of ethnic and sexual diversity for many years--with only scant results. Many boards have a token African-American and a token woman, but their presence has no impact on the organization. The number of women on boards...
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
- Race, gender diversity losing ground in sports
- Women and minorities are losing ground with jobs in professional and college sports, reversing a trend toward greater diversity, according to a study released Monday. Every professional sport had lower averages for employing women compared with the last Racial and Gender Report Card two years ago, and minority...
- Research articles 2003-04-29
- NBA best at achieving diversity
- The National Basketball Association received an A in racial diversity from a recent university study, the top grade among America's professional sports leagues. The NBA earned an overall grade of B-plus, the best in sports, according to a study by Richard Lapchick of the University of Central Florida's Institute...
- Research articles 2005-05-23
- Is diversity working? How diverse is the engineering work force? Is the welcome mat out to stay?
- Ever since the first modern civil rights legislation in 1964, corporate America has endeavored to increase the ethnic, racial, and gender diversity of the US work force. Through court decisions, boom and bust business cycles, and government policy shifts, large and small companies have grappled...
- Research articles 1992-03-05
- Diversity Development Project; "40 Ways To Raise A Non-Racist Child" Panel Discussion
- SAN JOSE, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 21, 1998--Parent and Student Seminars (P.A.S.S.), an educational consultant group, has announced a first-of-its-kind Diversity Development Project. The Project has targeted nine specific areas for diversity development: education, human services, media, race/culture, corporations, government, families, physically challenged and gender. Initially, the Project will focus on...
- Research articles 1998-10-22
- Diversity/mental health/suicide
- Leach, M. M. (2006). Cultural Diversity and Suicide: Ethnic, Religious, Gender, and Sexual Orientation Perspectives. New York: The Haworth Press. $34.95 paper. The literature on the relationship between culture and suicide has historically been widely scattered and often difficult to find. This insightful text summarizes that widespread literature so...
- Research articles 2007-03-22
- Federal Judge Rules That Georgia has No Compelling Interest in Promoting Diversity - Brief Article
- SAVANNAH, GA. A federal district judge ruled late last month that three White female applicants denied admission to the University of Georgia in 1999 should be offered admission to the institution this fall, effectively ending the university's policy of giving special consideration to minority applicants. In his ruling,...
- Research articles 2000-08-17
- TOP 100 DIVERSITY EMPLOYERS OF 2005, THE
- Understanding DiversityBy Catrine JonangsonDiversity is a vital business imperative for employers today. To provide clients and customers with the test advice or products available, employers need to nave a workforce as multi-faceted as the global economy they operate in."Diversity encompasses so much more than ethnicity and gender, particularly when students...
- Research articles 2005-10-01
- Rhetorical pathologies and gender difference: an ideological examination of cultural discourse in Faulkner v. The Citadel.
- Intense controversy surrounded the admission of women to the last two state supported single-sex educational institutions, The Citadel and VMI. The debate at The Citadel, in particular, provided a cultural narrative about gender, difference, and diversity. After conducting interviews, collecting letters and editorials, and examining protest...
- Research articles 2003-03-22
- Study: gender, race gap still exists in sports front offices, sidelines: WNBA receives top marks for opportunities for women and minorities
- ORLANDO, FLA. The WNBA was the only major professional sports league to receive top marks in a comprehensive study comparing opportunities for women and minorities in sports. The University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport examined front office, support staff, playing and coaching opportunities...
- Research articles 2005-11-17
- "Pulled apart, pushed together" diversity and unity within the Congress of South African Trade Unions/Diversite et unite au sein du Congres des syndicats sud-africains
- This is a study of horizontal and vertical solidarity within a national labour movement, based on a nationwide survey of members of affiliated unions of the Congress of South African Trade Unions. On the one hand, the survey reveals relatively high levels of vertical and horizontal solidarity, despite the persistence...
- Research articles 2004-09-22
- Managing Workforce 2000: Gaining the Diversity Advantage. - book reviews
- Beyond Race and Gender. By R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr. New York, American Management Association, 1991. 189 pp. $22.95, cloth. Managing Workforce 2000: Gaining the Diversity Advantage. By David Jamieson and Julie O'Mara. San Francisco, CA, Jossey Bass Publishers, 1991. 241 pp. $27.95. The Hudson Institute's 1988 report, Workforce...
- Research articles 1992-06-01
- Leisure, Diversity and Social Justice
- KEYWORDS: Social justice, diversity, institutional inequity, marginalization Issues of justice and injustice have only been tangentially addressed in the leisure literature. The "social-justice paradigm" may provide an important conceptual umbrella for leisure scholars to connect a range of research/ scholarly endeavors including issues related to gender, race/ethnicity, social class,...
- Research articles 2000-01-01
- Racial Ideology and Affirmative Action Support in a Diverse College Student Population
- A more complex racial climate has emerged at historically White colleges and universities HWCUs. Assessing and understanding students' racial ideologies and beliefs about affirmative action diversity policies and programs are important in pursuing racial and gender justice and equity. This article examined explanations for opposition to curriculum diversity initiatives and...
- Research articles 2006-10-01
- It's time for action, not airy-fairy rhetoric.
- Byline: Catherine Fox Aug 14, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Organisations need to be more serious about advancing women in their ranks, according to a leading Australian businesswoman. Alison Watkins is critical of approaches that involve nothing more...
- Research articles 2006-08-14
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