Download or read book Workforce Diversity and Adaptability written by Sarah Sami Obeid and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Workforce diversity refers to the varied background of employees in terms of race, color, gender, education, social class, and mental and physical capabilities. The management of a diverse workforce has increased in recent years and has been an issue of great concern to many academics and practitioners. This unusual trend in managerial thinking is a challenge to the firmly established belief that the workforce globally has a mainly homogeneous nature and this diversity of workforce in any given country reflects the diversity of that country's population as a whole Of the many countries that have become multinational, the UAE is one of those oil rich Arab states that has attracted a large body of domestic, managerial, technical and industrial workers from many foreign countries. Because of its lack to the necessary manpower to execute, on its own, the massive projects that accompanied the oil boom, it attracted many workers from Asia, Arab countries, the Indian subcontinent and the Philippines, especially those workers whose job prospects back at home are not very promising.--Apart from library, internet search and interviews, a questionnaire was administered to 350 employees in the Department of Health and Medical Services in Dubai to test the relation between cultural diversity and change. The results of the questionnaire showed a direct relationship between cultural diversity and change although many other factors can play a role.

Download or read book Understanding Adaptability written by C. Shawn Burke and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2006-02-06 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aims to increase our understanding of adaptability within complex environments by integrating the work done by experts in the field. This book also presents work on the importance of cultural adaptability, visualization requirements, measurement approaches, training strategies, and selection for adaptive performance.

Download or read book Adaptability Soft Skills Series written by Esther Jackson and published by ASTD. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the ATD Soft Skills Series, Adaptability in Talent Development will empower you to build career resiliency by matching your technical expertise with newfound soft skill abilities. TD expert Esther Jackson takes you through a process of raising your self-awareness and developing an adaptive mindset. You will discover ways to get out of your comfort zone, welcome chances to innovate or disrupt and embrace new projects. By the end, you will be equipped to level up your TD efforts and adapt your career for whatever comes next.

Download or read book Managing Workplace Diversity and Inclusion written by Rosemary Hays-Thomas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing Workplace Diversity and Inclusion bridges the gap between social science theory and research and the practical concerns of those working in diversity and inclusion by presenting an applied psychological perspective. Using foundational ideas in the field of diversity and inclusion as well as concepts in the social sciences, this book provides a set of cognitive tools for dealing with situations related to workplace diversity and applies both classic theories and new ideas to topics such as United States employment law, teamwork, gender, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, and other areas. Each chapter includes engaging scenarios and real-world applications to stimulate learning and help students conceptualize and contextualize diversity in the workplace. Intended for upper-level undergraduates as well as graduate students, this textbook brings together foundational theories with practical, real-world applications to build a strong understanding of managing diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Download or read book Diversity in the Workplace written by Susan E. Jackson and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1993-03-26 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring descriptive case studies from such firms as Xerox, Digital Equipment, Pacific Bell and American Express, this text covers international diversity and merging corporate cultures, as well as ethnic, gender and lifestyle differences.

Download or read book Adaptability of the US Engineering and Technical Workforce written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-08-19 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late last year, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) convened a workshop on Preparing the Engineering and Technical Workforce for Adaptability and Resilience to Change. The workshop springs from the earlier NAE report Making Value for America which described the ongoing transformation in the way in which products and services are conceived, designed, made, and distributed. The workshop focused on the challenges facing the workforce in light of these dramatic changes in the production process, especially the need to constantly renew and learn new skills. The workshop served to increase stakeholders' understanding of both the importance of workforce adaptability and the definition and characteristics of adaptability. It also provided an opportunity to share known best practices for fostering adaptability, including identification of barriers and multiple pathways for overcoming those barriers. As important, it helped to identify needs for future study and development. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

Download or read book Handbook of Workplace Diversity written by Alison M Konrad and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006-01-10 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcases the scope of international perspectives that exist on workplace diversity and defines this field. This book is a useful resource for students and academics of human resource management, organisational behaviour, organisational psychology and organisation studies.

Download or read book Managing Workplace Diversity Equity and Inclusion written by Rosemary Hays-Thomas and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing Workplace Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion bridges the gap between social science theory and research and the practical concerns of those working in diversity, equity, and inclusion by presenting an applied psychological perspective. Using foundational ideas in the field of diversity, equity, and inclusion as well as concepts in the social sciences, this book provides a set of cognitive tools for dealing with situations related to workplace diversity and applies both classic theories and new ideas to topics such as United States employment law, teamwork, gender, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, and other areas. Each chapter includes engaging scenarios and real-world applications to stimulate learning and help students conceptualize and contextualize diversity in the workplace. Intended for upper-level undergraduates as well as graduate students, this textbook brings together foundational theories with research-based and practical, real-world applications to build a strong understanding of managing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. This text also has its own companion website, which has been designed to give students and instructors a comprehensive look into Workplace Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, offering case studies, practical applications, tests, and essay questions.

Download or read book Management Practices for Engaging a Diverse Workforce written by Manish Gupta and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique volume shows how to tackle the challenges of diversity in the workplace. It addresses the need to keep the workforce engaged while taking into consideration the diverse backgrounds of employees. The book explores 12 themes of workforce diversity and culture, including differences of race, religion, gender, sexuality, income class, education level, marital status, generation/age, physical ability, and more. Focusing on the benefits of engaging a diverse workforce, the volume considers the issue through the different stages of the human resource process, including recruitment, selection, performance appraisal, demand forecasting, supply forecasting, job description and specification, job analysis and evaluation, training and development, career planning and development, succession planning, etc. Employing an abundance of case studies, the volume enables readers to comprehend what it means to have a diverse workforce and how to engage such a workforce for the betterment of the employees as well as the employer. The volume acts as a textbook for courses on diversity in human resource management as well as a valuable resource for HRM and other management professionals. The discussions and questions sections will be useful for faculty, and the short case studies are designed to keep students interested and engaged.

Download or read book Managing Diversity written by Michàlle E. Mor-Barak and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using inclusion-exclusion as an organizing construct to help examine problems and solutions in a global context, this text explores issues of the multicultural workplace from both American and European perspectives.

Download or read book Diversity in the Workforce written by Marilyn Y. Byrd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 chapters: 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.

Download or read book FLEX written by Rick Grimaldi and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to navigate disruption and embrace change as an opportunity to grow and succeed. Never before has it been so urgent to understand how today's trends are shaping tomorrow’s labor force. As seismic shifts continue to change America's world of work in unprecedented ways, leaders must adapt to the rapidly evolving workplace using creative solutions for recruiting, engaging, and retaining a skilled workforce. Forward-thinking 'disruptors' who respond quickly to the new business environment will attract more talent, win more customers, and gain greater profits than those who make assumptions based on what has worked in the past. FLEX: A Leader's Guide to Staying Nimble and Mastering Transformative Change in the American Workplace is your real-world guide to harnessing the power of change to increase employee satisfaction and secure long-term success in the marketplace. Rick Grimaldi, a labor relations attorney with decades of experience helping businesses respond effectively during pivotal moments, shares his valuable insights on the surprising and fundamental ways the world of work is reinventing itself. Learn to: Avoid common pitfalls in today's cultural revolution Foster the creative education and training needed for tomorrow's workforce Adapt to a world becoming defined by technology and artificial intelligence Lead meaningfully on climate change and global health concerns Set the stage for creative collaboration and communication Disregard outdated assumptions when making decisions Responded quickly with new policies and procedures Communicate with sensitivity and transparency Address uncomfortable organizational culture issues Be prepared for the disruptions that will inevitably come Whether you lead a large corporation or own a small family business or you are the policy maker, FLEX: A Leader's Guide to Staying Nimble and Mastering Transformative Change in the American Workplace is your real-world blueprint for leading a profitable, healthy company into an ever-evolving future.

Download or read book Workforce Diversity Management Inclusion and Equity Challenges Competencies and Strategies Third Edition written by Bahaudin Ghulam Mujtaba and published by Ilead Academy. This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Workforce Diversity Management: Inclusion and Equity Challenges, Competencies and Strategies (third edition). By: Bahaudin G. Mujtaba Diversity is a reality of life along with inclusion and equity, and a necessity in today's workplace. Workforce Diversity Management is about increasing one's cultural competency, understanding people as individuals rather than groups, and building productive human relationships in the workplace by focusing on an individual's head, heart, and habits. It requires examining one's own beliefs and values as well as one's personal habits and daily behaviors to learn the skills of dealing appropriately with individuals whose personal beliefs and values may be different. - Workforce Diversity Management can help professionals and managers deal with today's diverse workforce more effectively, and to attract and retain productive associates in a competitive global economy. - The book can help managers create an inclusive and equitable work environment where all employees of diverse beliefs and values are respected and treated with dignity. - The concepts, cases, and exercises are very relevant to today's work environment, and thus can easily fit most diversity management or cultural competency courses, seminars, and employee development workshops. - The author has used the concepts discussed in this book both nationally and internationally with academic and practitioner audiences to help increase their awareness of diversity and different cultures. Dr. Bahaudin G. Mujtaba is professor of management, human resources, and international management. He is also a certified diversity trainer, and a management consultant. Bahaudin has worked in many different countries and has facilitated diversity management workshops in the United States, Bahamas, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Thailand, Grenada, St. Lucia, and Afghanistan.

Download or read book Handbook of Research on Workforce Diversity in a Global Society Technologies and Concepts written by Scott, Chaunda L. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book highlights innovative research, theoretical frameworks, and perspectives that are currently being used to guide the practice of leveraging diversity in multiple organizational settings"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Adjusting to the Future Workforce Combining Diversity and Organizational Climate Research written by David J. G. Dwertmann and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Vielfalt in der heutigen Erwerbsbevölkerung steigt zunehmend an. Hierfür sind verschiedene globale Trends wie die Globalisierung, eine ansteigende Erwerbstätigenquote unter Frauen und der demographische Wandel verantwortlich. Aufgrund der Herausforderungen die mit diesen Veränderungen einhergehen, suchen Unternehmen nach Möglichkeiten um auf den Wandel zu reagieren. Die wissenschaftlichen Ergebnisse hierzu sind bislang jedoch oftmals widersprüchlich und unvollständig. Forschung zu organisationalem Klima, die in der heutzutage oftmals in Gruppenarbeit organisierten Arbeitswelt besonders relevant erscheint, bietet hierbei vielversprechende Ansätze. Aus diesem Grund werden in dieser Dissertation die Forschungsfelder Diversity (Vielfalt) und organisationales Klima zum Konstrukt Diversity Klima oder Klima für Inklusion verknüpft. Aus den so erlangten Befunden ergeben sich wichtige Hinweise zum effizienten Management von Organisationen. Studie 1 identifiziert einen signifikanten Unterschied in der Menge an qualitativ hochwertiger empirischer Forschung zum Thema Behinderung und anderen Diversity Dimensionen wie beispielsweise Alter, Geschlecht, oder Kultur. Mittels Experteninterviews werden methodische Herausforderungen in der Forschung zum Thema Behinderung als ein möglicher Grund identifiziert und mögliche Lösungen aufgezeigt. Hierdurch werden Forschern Ansätze aufgezeigt, um Behinderung als eine wichtige und bisher oft zu wenig beachtete Dimension von Diversity zu untersuchen. Die zweite Studie untersucht den Zusammenhang zwischen Top-Management Führung und Performanz in einer Stichprobe von 20.639 Mitarbeitern aus 157 Firmen. Transformationales Führungsklima, als eine Form des organisationalen Klimas, und organisationale Identitätsstärke werden als Mediatoren identifiziert, durch welche Manager die Leistung der gesamten Firma beeinflussen können. Es ist die erste Studie, die den Zusammenhang zwischen Identit.

Download or read book Managing Diversity written by Michalle E. Mor Barak and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2022-01-19 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning Managing Diversity: Toward a Globally Inclusive Workplace uses an interdisciplinary approach to provide students with an understanding of diversity from a global perspective. Author Michalle E. Mor Barak offers practical guidelines to help managers create an inclusive workplace and develop an organizational culture that embraces diversity. The Fifth Edition includes expanded coverage of environmental justice, disability diversity, LGBTQ+ diversity, and inclusive leadership.

Download or read book Are Generational Categories Meaningful Distinctions for Workforce Management written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-11-21 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Headlines frequently appear that purport to highlight the differences among workers of different generations and explain how employers can manage the wants and needs of each generation. But is each new generation really that different from previous ones? Are there fundamental differences among generations that impact how they act and interact in the workplace? Or are the perceived differences among generations simply an indicator of age-related differences between older and younger workers or a reflection of all people adapting to a changing workplace? Are Generational Categories Meaningful Distinctions for Workforce Management? reviews the state and rigor of the empirical work related to generations and assesses whether generational categories are meaningful in tackling workforce management problems. This report makes recommendations for directions for future research and improvements to employment practices.