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 is a reality in today's workforce. What are the benefits and challenges inherent in having a team drawn from backgrounds as divergent as Tuscaloosa and Tibet? An interesting Boston Globe article by Michael Jonas yesterday entitled "The Downside of Diversity," looks at the difficulties surrounding this most central fact...
Diversity continues to be a key focus for organizations, driven by globalization and the understanding of the benefits associated with a diverse workforce. While it is critical for managers and researchers to understand the processes and outcomes associated with diversity, much work remains to be done in this important area...
In this paper, we have carried five case studies looking into the extent and types of cross-disciplinary practices in a specialty of bionanotechnology. We have found that there is a consistent high degree of cross-disciplinarily in the cognitive aspects of research (i.e. references and instrumentalities), but a more erratic and...
Diversity is an issue that is in the forefront of almost every organization with which one works. It is frequently listed as one of a corporation's core values and there is often a lot of effort around it. Although the right words about diversity are professed in these companies, most...
There is no question that for any organization to succeed today, it must keep pace with the nation's changing demographics. Many forward-thinking companies answer this call by providing the right products and services demanded by their consumers. However, determining these needs begins by understanding the cultural nuances of the consumer...
Sixty-three studies published in the years 1997 - 2002 are reviewed to assess the effects of workplace diversity on teams and organizations. Four major questions are considered: Which personal attributes have diversity researchers studied in recent years? What has been learned about the consequences of diversity for teams and organizations?...
Diverse is defined as “Differing one from another, made up of distinct characteristics, qualities, or elements.” While this definition stresses difference and distinctness, current conversations about diversity in corporations stress the reduction of differences, and the acknowledgment of differences often seems held to be wrong, discriminatory, or somehow undemocratic. This...
One of the great challenges facing organizations is getting all employees, from the CEO to the hourly workers, to realize that to become the best, they have to embrace diversity. Diversity is about empowering people. It makes an organization effective by capitalizing on all the strengths of each employee. If...
Most African countries have been rather shy about addressing the issue of managing diversity in general; and ethnic diversity in the Public Service in particular. This has mostly added fuel to interethnic conflict and fighting over positions and resources in the Public Service and body politic. The position this paper...
South African society exhibits diversity on a large number of typical diversity factors - the most notable being race and ethnicity. It could be argued that the Apartheid system was an attempt at "diversitymanagement" that went seriously wrong. In the spirit of learning and sharing knowledge South Africans have...
University student outcome data in Australia is collected via the Graduate Destination Survey component of the Australian Graduate Survey at the referent date three months post-graduation. This timeline gives consideration to graduates to enter directly into traditional vocations. For graduates from non-traditional areas and/or with non-traditional career...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This column includes some observations from my recent participation at the Fourth International Symposium on Career Development and Public Policy in Scotland, and visits to LearnDirect and Careers Scotland. The outcomes of the Symposium and the latter two major initiatives directly link to...
CAREER ENDEAVOUR: PURSUING A CROSS-CULTURAL LIFE TRANSITION Charles P. Chen, hampshire: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2006, 164pp., ISBN 978-0-7546-4621-1 Charles Chen states that the purpose of this book is to illustrate the complexity of life career transition in the context of cross-cultural adjustment. To...
Sergio Botto is a polite and professionalItalian travel agent; his colleague, Youssef El Idris, is a rough,authoritarian Moroccan immigrant. Together they manage a diverse group ofpeople traveling from Torino, Italy, to Morocco. In telling their stories,Sergio and Youssef provide a glimpse into their strange and respectfulrelationship: a prime example of...
Socket Mobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCKT), aninnovative provider of mobile productivity products, today announced itwill offer new 802.11 a/b/g Wireless LAN WLAN products designed forcorporate and industrial OEM customers to use in their embedded and plug-inapplications. Three form factors will be available worldwide includingmodules, Secure Digital and CompactFlash cards. The...
CHICAGO -- Chicago Equity Partners, LLC is pleased to announce that Los Angeles Fire and Police Pension System has retained the firm for a Large Cap Core mandate of more than $350 million. Chicago Equity Partners, LLC manages $9.3 billion in assets in a full range of domestic...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Bridger Commercial Funding's BankXchange program announced today that it has been retained on an exclusive basis by a major western states bank to sell the largest pool of West Coast performing commercial real estate loans to be brought to market this year. The portfolio totals $148 million,...
Sentry Select Capital Corp. announces that the August distribution for Sentry Select MBS Adjustable Rate Income Fund II (the "Fund")(TSX: MGS.UN) will be $0.03 per unit. The distribution will be paid on September 15, 2008 to all unitholders of record on August 29, 2008. The stated objective of the Fund...
FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla., Aug. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- InkSure Technologies Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: INKS) , a provider of covert machine-readable security solutions for the prevention of counterfeiting, fraud and diversion, and a leading developer of a unique new chipless RFID technology today announced that Mr. Gadi Peleg has joined...
LONG BRANCH, N.J., Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- On September 7-9, 85 specialty and custom chemical chemistry companies will showcase their products and services during what has turned into an attendance-setting 2008 Pharma ChemOutsourcing Conference & Exhibition, reports Apaporis, the show organizer. 600-800 attendees will gather for the seaside show....
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