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Diversity in the Workforce: Current Issues and Emerging Trends
This comprehensive, integrated teaching resource provides students with the tools and methodologies they need to effectively negotiate the multiple dynamics that emerge from difference, and to appropriately respond to issues of marginalization and social injustice.
Written from an American perspective, the book not only covers the traditional topics of race, gender, ethnicity, and social class, but explores emerging trends around “isms” (racism, sexism). This second edition includes two new one addressing social identity diversity and leadership in the workforce, and the other examining under-representation of diversity in the scientific, technical, and film workforce. This edition also features an updated chapter on social justice as an emerging diversity paradigm; this includes a conceptual framework to advance the ideology of organizational social justice.
End-of-chapter questions encourage students to engage in difficult conversations, and case studies stimulate students’ awareness of real-world issues that emerge from diversity, helping students to develop the broad range of skills they need to mediate or resolve diversity issues as future professionals. Additional links, slides, multiple choice quizzes, and essay questions can be found online as a part of this book’s Instructor Resources.
Written from an American perspective, the book not only covers the traditional topics of race, gender, ethnicity, and social class, but explores emerging trends around “isms” (racism, sexism). This second edition includes two new one addressing social identity diversity and leadership in the workforce, and the other examining under-representation of diversity in the scientific, technical, and film workforce. This edition also features an updated chapter on social justice as an emerging diversity paradigm; this includes a conceptual framework to advance the ideology of organizational social justice.
End-of-chapter questions encourage students to engage in difficult conversations, and case studies stimulate students’ awareness of real-world issues that emerge from diversity, helping students to develop the broad range of skills they need to mediate or resolve diversity issues as future professionals. Additional links, slides, multiple choice quizzes, and essay questions can be found online as a part of this book’s Instructor Resources.
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350 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2014
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October 21, 2023
I am reading this book for a class. There is a lot about this text I don't like. First of all, it lacks serious substance. This text really reads like it was written with interest convergence in mind. For example, the very definition of diversity in this text is so broad that every organization on earth could be considered diverse.
Second, their history of workforce diversity in the United States can barely be considered cursory. The authors move from Plessy v. Ferguson to Brown v. Board without any mention of A. Philip Randolph, Walter White, and Thurgood Marshall (before he was a supreme court justice) and the fight to get Black workers into defense jobs during WWII.
Third, there are plenty of spaces where elaboration is necessary for comprehension but is missing entirely.
In conclusion, the whole text feels like it was written just to publish something. What is worse, it reads like it was published to appease a selected audience, which is the antithesis of diversity.
Second, their history of workforce diversity in the United States can barely be considered cursory. The authors move from Plessy v. Ferguson to Brown v. Board without any mention of A. Philip Randolph, Walter White, and Thurgood Marshall (before he was a supreme court justice) and the fight to get Black workers into defense jobs during WWII.
Third, there are plenty of spaces where elaboration is necessary for comprehension but is missing entirely.
In conclusion, the whole text feels like it was written just to publish something. What is worse, it reads like it was published to appease a selected audience, which is the antithesis of diversity.
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