Beyond Diversity and Intercultural Management [Paperback]

Beyond Diversity and Intercultural Management develops a change model designed to challenge prevailing paradigms in the literature and conversations about equal employment opportunity, diversity, and intercultural management.Introduction PART I: MY JOURNEY AND UNDERSTANDING OF DIVERSITY AND INTERCULTURAL MANAGEMENT FROM THE LENS OF TRADITIONAL PARADIGMS 1. Understanding diversity from the Mindset of a Structural Approach to Change 2. The Beginning: Moving Diversity Strategies Beyond Structural Interventions 3. My Early Work: Appreciative Inquiry as a Diversity Intervention Strategy 4. The Importance of the Individual When Working to Evoke a Diverse Organizational Environment 5. Contemporary Yet Unconventional Research and Perspectives on Issues of Diversity and Intercultural Management 6. Contemporary Diversity Perspectives: More Lessons from the 'Field' 7. The Movement Towards New Diversity Questions and Paradigms: Synthesizing my Learning PART II: NON-TRADITIONAL VENUES FOR EVOKING THE DIVERSITY CONVERSATION 8. Moving the Conversation Beyond the Ethics Literature: Connecting Diversity and Social Responsibility 9. Transformational Leadership and the Transcendence of Humanity: Leaders are the Drivers of Change 10. Synthesizing the Learning: A New Diversity/Intercultural Competence Model for Change 11. Concluding Comments

With deep interior spirit, Robinson-Easley invites us to escape from inefficient, biased and mind-numbing ways of questioning inequality, oppression, and discrimination; a mental conditioning that mainly aims at reducing complex problems to simple solutions, broadcasting set models, standard operating procedures and fragmented analysis. Through productive cognitive dissonance, one can address issues of differences, diversity and intercultural management from a critical and interrelated systems perspective, a connected heart-driven way to truly see the individual in its humanity. - Fabienne Alvarez, Assistant Professor of Management, UniverlsB