Mastering The Diversity Challenge

This easy-to-use guidebook goes beyond the basic requirements for mastering the diversity challenge. It not only provides practical, step-by-step guidelines and answers, but gives important reasons as to why managing diversity is good for overall business. Designed for quick and easy access to useful and practical checklists, tests, questionnaires, exercises, stories, experiential activities and new ideas-this important book will help you make a difference. Written in an easy-to-understand format, Mastering the Diversity Challenge identifies issues specific to designated groups and provides effective techniques for creating a level playing field. Specific on-the-job applications are provided for running meetings, building the team, opening the dialogue, and coaching and counseling. Mastering the Diversity Challenge exposes the elements of human interaction as the cornerstone of the workplace and helps you create a culture that encourages respect and promotes equality of opportunity. When implemented, these new and useful techniques will undoubtedly impact productivity-benefiting both the individual and the company.

Diversity managers who want to integrate cost-effective, battle-tested initiatives dont have enough tools and resources to identify and apply best practices to actual work situations. These programs demand time, energy, and moneyand the empirical evidence about outcomes is limited. The few studies out there contradict each other, which can make it nearly impossible to determine what practices to implement. Dr. Shelton J. Goode, who has spent more than twenty years as a diversity and human resource management professional, cuts through the clutter to help you locate strengths and weaknesses in your diversity strategy. You can learn how to benchmark organizational efforts against the actions other companies have taken to manage diversity; identify outdated paradigms and misguided diversity management initiatives that have prevented others from capitalizing on talent embedded within the ranks; and judge where past efforts have yielded success and which initiatives require a new approach. Despite the importance of linking diversity to the organizations bottom line, there has been no single, comprehensive resource that employees could turn to for guidanceuntil now! Business leaders at every level can find best practices to achieve organizational goals in Diversity Managers: Angels of Mercy or Barbarians at the Gate.

Is it really possible for an individual or an organization to develop an inclusion and diversity mindset within the proverbial 99 days? Award-winning social entrepreneur Dr Saundarya Rajesh, one of India's most prominent diversity strategists who is credited with having ushered in the 'second-career' revolution for women professionals, believes it is. In an engaging, gentle, often light-hearted way, Dr Rajesh demystifies this vast subject of Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) for the business leader, the diversity enthusiast and even the young professional who is interested in this topic. Over a set of 99 stories, anecdotes and thought blogs, this book sequentially uncovers the meaning of D&I and how this can be absorbed by just about everyone. At the core of the 99 Day Diversity Challenge is the belief that the organizational practice of inclusion actually results in us becoming better human beings. For when we break down differences and create greater connectedness between people, we are building a better world.

Shows business owners how to comply with diversity rules ethically while minimizing financial risk to the company; explains the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the proposed Employment Non-Discrimination Act. Includes worksheets and forms.

A lot has changed since 1985, when this landmark collection of human resource forms was last published. New legislation, the ongoing modernization of company practices, and drastic changes in the workplace have led to a slew of new challenges for HR professionals. Forms Used in Human Resources tackles these challenges head on. It is fully revised with up-to-date forms for areas such as domestic partnership, the ethical use of computer software, and requests for translation services. Forms Used in Human Resources is for anyone faced with the difficult task of creating or redesigning human resources forms. It features contributions from over 55 U.S. and Canadian companies and includes 350 commonly used HR forms. It can be used as a source to create new forms or as a standard for evaluating your company's current forms with those used by others. Forms in this book have been designed to meet the needs of the companies using them. They have already been put to use by companies such as the Principal Financial Group, the Southwestern Life Corporation and Mutual of New York, so you know they work well in the workplace. And with so comprehensive a source, there is no longer any need to spend hours doing research or struggling to create a new form. Practical examples are right there at your fingertips-examples that will save you valuable time and money.

Your Outplacement Handbook: Redesigning Your Career is a valuable, results-driven guide to getting a job and getting ahead in today's tough market. It tackles job search and career issues head-on and provides an effective plan of attack for securing work in today's mercurial marketplace. Readers will uncover their skills, interests and values, and discover how to use these elements to earn a living. Job search strategies, pointers on achieving superior interview results, and templates for building resumes that work are all presented in an easy-to-read style. This Handbook is for anyone confronted with employment transition or career development issues. It can be used as an independent workbook, a college textbook, a manual for outplacement seminars, or distributed to your staff as a personal growth tool. Human resource departments can give it to employees who stay for career pathing and employees who leave for the job search. It will help them align their personal values and career goals and allow them to take charge, take action, and take control of their lives.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of organizational diversity management, intended to help readers implement effective strategies and maximize the value of organizational diversity. Written by experts from a range of disciplines, it presents cutting-edge research and best practices in this field. Further, it addresses the challenges that organizations face in order to successfully manage organizational diversity and presents the application of theoretical concepts. Individual chapters explore topics including workforce diversity, knowledge management, innovation and change, and decision-making. Providing an invaluable resource for students and researchers in the fields of human resource management, industrial engineering and international business, the book will also benefit human resource managers, engineers and economists.