Robinson-Easley, Christopher Anne

Beyond diversity and intercultural management Christopher Anne Robinson-Easley - New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, c2014. - xviii, 182 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: pt. I My Journey and Understanding of Diversity and Intercultural Management from the Lens of Traditional Paradigms -- One. Understanding Diversity from the Mindset of a Structural Approach to Change -- Two. The Beginning: Moving Diversity Strategies beyond Structural Interventions -- Three. My Early Work: Appreciative Inquiry as a Diversity Intervention Strategy -- Four. The Importance of the Individual When Working to Evoke a Diverse Organizational Environment -- Five. Contemporary, Yet Unconventional Research and Perspectives on Issues of Diversity and Intercultural Management -- Six. Contemporary Diversity Perspectives: More Lessons from the "Field" -- Seven. The Movement toward New Diversity Questions and Paradigms: Synthesizing My Learning -- pt. II Nontraditional Venues for Evoking the Diversity Conversation -- Eight. Moving the Conversation beyond the Ethics Literature: Connecting Diversity and Social Responsibility. Contents note continued: Nine. Transformational Leadership and the Transcendence of Humanity: Leaders Are the Drivers of Change -- Ten. Synthesizing the Learning: A New Diversity/Intercultural Competence Model for Change -- Eleven. Concluding Comments.

Our global world still faces many issues of discrimination. The marginalization faced by people across many different realms of difference is causing significant strife in organizations, governments, and our education systems. Yet the literature and conversations on diversity, intercultural management and related topics on equality have not significantly changed in over twenty years. Beyond Diversity and Intercultural Management develops a change model designed to challenge prevailing paradigms. Robinson-Easley argues that while equal employment opportunity, diversity, and intercultural management are generally treated separately in the literature, these topics and related issues reside on one continuum and require the same core competencies and skills. This follow up work to Robinson-Easley's Preparing for Today's Global Job Market demonstrates that it is time to move away from a 'managing' mindset and towards a "valuing humanity" mindset, while concomitantly privileging the personal lenses, cultures, and micro-cultures of people who make up today's diverse global world.

9781137405135

2013042422


Individuality
Diversity in the workplace
Organization
Personnel management

BF697 / .R593 2014

658.3008