Managing Diversity: A Complete Desk Reference and Planning Guide, Revised Edition [Ring-bound]

'It's a gold mine! I was excited to see that it truly is a complete desk reference. This book addresses every aspect of workplace diversity issues, from the individual, group, and organizational perspectives' - Jeanne Hartley, Manager of Training and Development, "The Los Angeles Times". '"Managing Diversity" is an outstanding, usable reference book loaded with answers on 'what to do' and 'how to do it' in managing our diverse work force' - David W. Jamieson, Ph.D., President, Jamieson Consulting Group, Coauthor of "Manging Workforce 2000 and Gaining the Diversity Advantage". '"Managing Diversity" is well-written, comprehensive, user-friendly, sensitive, and a must read and library addition for all those whose mission includes work force diversity issues' - Jeffrey N. Wallace Director, Workforce Diversity and EEO, Sony Pictures Entertainment.Lee Gardenswartz and Anita Rowe's bestselling "Managing Diversity" is the diversity resource, showing thousands of executives how to make the best, most profitable use of today's culturally expanding workforce. Now, as we approach the turn of the century - when the majority of new entrants to the workforce are projected to be women and minorities - "Managing Diversity" has been comprehensively revised and updated to provide the most current information on this vital topic.Packed with worksheets, activities, and charts, it includes all the tools and information your organization needs to make diversity work, from implementation and evaluation to measurement. "Managing Diversity" illustrates why some programs have failed - and what to do about it to ensure the success of your multicultural organization. Create a corporate culture that embraces its diversity! The all-in-one "Managing Diversity" continues to be the only reference and planning guide you will need to: conduct a diversity audit in your organization to design the most effective program for your needs; build cohesive multicultural work teams to maximize the cooperative potential of your workforce; hire, train, manage, and promote people in today's culturally diverse workforce.

Managing Diversity is a comprehensive reference on diversity with an excellent misture of practical information, worksheets and activities. It goes past diversity awareness to systemic, long-term, hands-on implementation of a diversity strategy. Included are approximately 100 charts, checklists, suggested activities, worksheets, systems audits, exercises, sample interview questions, and tip sheets. Each exercise, worksheet, etc. is accompanied by a full page of the author's suggestions on how it can be best utilized in the trenches as well as how it fits in to the theory of what is being explained in the text. It covers everything from theory, implementation, evaluation and measurement to what the future holds and why some programs have failed and what to do about it, as well as offering a comprehensive resource section.

Praise for the previous edition of Managing Diversity. "It's a gold mine! I was excited to see that it truly is a complete desk reference. This book addresses every aspect of workplace diversity issues, from the individual, group, and organizational perspectives."--Jeanne Hartley, Manager of Training and Development, The Los Angeles Times. "Managing Diversity is an outstanding, usable reference book loaded with answers on 'what to do' and 'how to do it' in managing our diverse work force."--David W. Jamieson, Ph.D., President, Jamieson Consulting Group Coauthor of Manging Workforce 2000 and Gaining the Diversity Advantage. "Managing Diversity is well-written, comprehensive, user-friendly, sensitive, and a must read and library addition for all those whose mission includes work force diversity issues."--Jeffrey N. Wallace Director, Workforce Diversity and EEO Sony Pictures Entertainment. Lee Gardenswartz and Anita Rowe's bestselling Managing Diversity is THE diversity resource, showing thousands of executives how to make the best, most profitable use of today's culturally expanding workforce. Now, as we approach the turn of the century--when the majority of new entrants to the workforce are projected to be women and minorities--Managing Diversity has been comprehensively revised and updated to provide the most current information on this vital topic. Packed with worksheets, activities, and charts, it includes all the tools and information your organization needs to make diversity work, from implementation and evaluation to measurement. Managing Diversity illustrates why some programs have failed--and what to do about it to ensure the success of your multicultural organization. Create a corporate culture that embraces its diversity! The all-in-one Managing Diversity continues to be the only reference and planning guide you will need to: conduct a diversity audit in your organization to design the most effective program for your needs; build cohesive multicultural work teams to maximize the cooperative potential of your workforce; hire, train, manage, and promote people in today's culturally diverse workforce.

Lee Gardenswartz and Anita Rowe have been partners in the management consulting firm of Gardenswartz & Rowe in Los Angeles, California, for more than 18 years. Each holds a doctorate of human behavior from the United States International University. Pioneers in diversity training and initiatives, Dr. Gardenswartz and Dr. Rowe have coauthored numerous articles and books, including The Diversity Toolkit and Diverse Teams at Work. In addition to lecturing, teaching, and speaking widely, they write a Question and Answer column in Mosaics, the newsletter for the Society of Human Resource Managers. They have worked with corporations including IBM, Boeing, GTE, State Farm Insurance Co., Lucent Technologies, ChildrenÕs Hospital of Los Angeles, the IRS, The Los Angeles Times, UCLA, Walt Disney World, MCA, and Prudential Insurance Co.