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Bridging boundaries: Meeting the challenge of workplace diversity

✍ Scribed by Ernst, Christopher; Yip, Jeffrey

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2008
Weight: 522 KB
Volume: 28
Category: Article
ISSN: 1093-6092
DOI: 10.1002/lia.1232

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

In today's globally diverse and increasingly interconnected world, social identity boundaries rub together, pull apart, and collide in the workplace. When identity divides open up, people look to leaders to bridge the gaps. By employing four tactics—suspending, reframing, nesting, and weaving—leaders can facilitate positive cross‐boundary interactions.

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