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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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- 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
- P&G to Launch Ad Campaign Aimed at Black Women
- Unilever generated massive buzz with its Dove "Campaign for Real Beauty." You couldn't go anywhere for a couple of years without seeing those curvaceous, "real" women looking pleased to be in their underwear. Though you also couldn't avoid hearing critics complain that Unilever sells many other products in traditional ways...
- Blog posts 2007-08-27
- Manage a Diverse Team
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-08-06
- The Management of Diversity: The UK Civil Service Journey Continues
- 'Diversity' is stirring up the UK civil service. It is now an integral part of the current UK civil service reform agenda. specifically, the civil service has been charged with making a 'Dramatic improvement' in diversity within the service. The importance of diversity and effective diversity management is also acknowledged...
- White papers 2001-05-03
- A Business Case for Diversity
- Both private and public sector organizations are under continuing pressure to improve their bottom lines. For private sector organizations this is profit and profitability; in the public sector it is the efficient delivery of services for all members of society. The business case for diversity will be different for each...
- White papers 2001-11-08
- Cultural Diversity in the Workplace: Strength in Diversity!
- Cultural diversity in the workplace provides strengths as well as challenges to businesses today. The United States is often thought of as the great melting pot where anyone from any background can assimilate into a single society. A more realistic and appropriate "Ideal" is one of multi-culturalism cultural diversity. Multi-culturalism...
- White papers
- Diversity Leaders - Advancing Business Performance Through Diversity
- 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...
- White papers 2004-07-01
- Diversity Of Knowledge-Sourcing Strategies For Cross-Disciplinarity In Bionanotechnology
- 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...
- White papers 2006-04-01
- Diversity Pays Off For Everyone
- Any company that wants to stay competitive must come to terms with diversity - inside and outside the organization. The legal and moral arguments for diversity are unassailable. Discriminatory hiring practices not only demean the human spirit, they've been against the law for decades. No one thought much about making...
- White papers
- How To Manage Negotiations And Conflicts At Workplace
- It's good to have diversity in your workforce where different types of people can bring different advantages to your company. But this diversity often results into difference of opinions between two employees or two different departments. Conflicts are a part of working environment and as a manager you don't need...
- White papers 2009-06-11
- Diversity Can Improve Decision-Making
- People tend to think of diversity as simply demographic, a matter of color, gender, or age. However, groups can be disparate in many ways. Diversity is also based on informational differences, reflecting a person's education and experience, as well as on values or goals that can influence what one perceives...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Should We Be Surprised That Schering-Plough Execs Are "Surprised" By Sugammadex Rejection?
- Yet another setback for Schering-Plough seems to have taken top management by surprise. Schering’s shares slid nearly four percent by midafternoon on the news that its sugammadex anesthesia-recovery drug would not be approved by the FDA. In a statement, Schering VP Thomas Koestler said he was “surprised...
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- Telecom Roundup: Telecom Diversity, Nortel Cuts, Dish Dips, Smartphone Reliability
- Obama's team to find new FCC chair headed by proponent of diversity in media participation; Nortel cuts jobs and its outlook for the rest of the year after losing $3.4 billion last quarter; Dish misses analyst expectations by nearly 40 cents a share; and a study raises arguments over whether...
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- 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
- DDB's Scarpelli Wants to Hire Minorities, Is Crucified in Blogosphere for Saying So
- DDB chief creative officer Bob Scarpelli sent a harmless, well-intentioned email to his staff -- and has been crucified for doing so on AgencySpy. The email below simply says that DDB must continue to hire more diversely: Maintaining and increasing diversity in our workplace is a serious...
- Blog posts 2009-02-19
- Diversity a Successful Business Strategy for General Mills
- Working Mother magazine just announced its annual list of Best Companies for Multicultural Women, and General Mills was in the top five. It was also the company's sixth consecutive year on the list. I've interviewed diversity consultants in the past, and they've expressed frustration with companies, saying...
- Blog posts 2009-05-29
- Managing Diversity in Civil Service: A Conceptual Framework for Public Organizations
- Workforce diversity has, indeed, become an imperative for organizational competitiveness and effectiveness and diversity management is increasingly becoming a principle of human resources management. This paper explores the managerial challenges posed by diversity in addressing traditional and new requirements for effective performance in public organizations. The paper surveys the core...
- White papers 2001-05-03
- Managing Diversity in the Civil Service
- The randomness of change is altering the workplace, radically transforming the way that organizations interact with their environment. Across the public and private sectors, diversity has grown. Colleagues working together are increasingly less alike with respect to gender, cultural background and age. They are different in their perspectives, lifestyles, attitudes,...
- White papers 2001-04-06
- Tackling Diversity
- 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 "diversity management" that went seriously wrong. In the spirit of learning and sharing knowledge South Africans have...
- White papers 2002-01-15
- The Internationalization of Equity Markets
- The Internationalization of Equity Markets' argues most empirical studies fail to take due account of the diversity of assets offered by countries around the world, the diversity of locales in which investors live, and the diversity of institutional peculiarities that characterize the markets in which assets and investors are brought...
- White papers 2000-08-21
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