Diversity in the workforce : current issues and emerging trends

✍ Scribed by Byrd, Marilyn Y.; Scott, Chaunda L

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 392
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Diversity in the Workforce is a comprehensive, integrated teaching resource providing students with the tools and methodologies they need to negotiate effectively the multicultural workplace, and to counter issues of discrimination and privilege.

Written from an American perspective, the book not only covers the traditional topics of race, gender, ethnicity and social class, but moves beyond this to explore emerging trends around ‘isms’ (racism, sexism), as well as transgender issues, spirituality, intergenerational workforce tensions, cross-cultural teams, physical appearance stigmatizing, visible and invisible disabilities, and racial harassment. The book:

• Presents theoretical models to help students think critically about the issues that emerge from workforce diversity
• Includes a historical perspective that explains the roots of the issues in the workplace today
• Covers potential legal and ethical issues
• Introduces a social justice paradigm to encourage social action
• Illustrates strategies organizations are using to leverage diversity effectively

With end of chapter questions encouraging students to engage in difficult conversations, and case studies to stimulate students’ awareness of the real problems and issues that emerge from diversity, this book will help students develop the critical, analytical, problem solving and decision making skills they need to mediate or resolve diversity issues as future professionals.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: pt. I. Establishing foundations of diversity in the workforce. Historical perspectives for studying diversity in the workforce / Chaunda L. Scott --
Suggested theories, models, and frameworks used to address emerging diversity issues in the workforce / Chaunda L. Scott --
Exploring the relationship between the organizational culture and diversity in the workforce / Marilyn Y. Byrd --
pt. II. Diversity in the workforce: current issues. Race and diversity in the workforce / Marilyn Y. Byrd --
Gender and diversity in the workforce / Brenda Lloyd-Jones, Lisa Bass, and Gaetane Jean-Marie --
Ethnicity and diversity in the workforce / Chaunda L. Scott and Terrance R. McClain --
Developing human resource development competencies to manage sexual orientation and transgender diversity issues in the workforce / Michael P. Chaney and Lisa Hawley --
Social class and diversity in the workforce / Marilyn Y. Byrd, Jose Martinez, and Chaunda L. Scott --
pt. III. Diversity in the workforce: emerging trends. Spirituality and diversity in the workforce / Marilyn Y. Byrd --
Intergenerational tensions in the workforce / Brenda Lloyd-Jones and Jody A. Worley --
Linguistic profiling in the workforce / Claretha Hughes and Ketevan Mamiseishvili --
Personal/physical appearance stigmatizing in the workforce / Cynthia Sims --
Visible and invisible disabilities in the workforce: exclusion and discrimination / Chaunda L. Scott and Marilyn Y. Byrd --
Re-emergence of racial harassment and racial hate symbols in the workforce / Marilyn Y. Byrd and Chaunda L. Scott --
Cross-cultural team opportunities and challenges in the workforce with global implications / Trammell Bristol and Chaunda L. Scott --
Re-conceptualizing the re-visioning diversity in the workforce: toward a social justice paradigm / Marilyn Y. Byrd.

✦ Subjects

Diversity in the workplace. Arbeitnehmer. Interkulturalität.