Managing Diversity in the Global Organization Creating New Business Values [Hardcover]

Global diversity is a key issue facing all companies and organizations. This innovative new book embraces diversity and shows how it can, if carefully understood and developed, provide the tools needed to attain the values and characteristics increasingly demanded by business corporations and environments.PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING DIVERSITY I. BACKGROUND: Diversity in business management: perspectives and trends Dominant and rising values Diversity in the historic perspective of business management II. Gender, culture and personality: the values provided by diversity Gender and management Culture and business management Personality and diversity management PART TWO: MANAGING DIVERSITY III. Policies and best practices: A new framework for analysing the management of corporate diversity Chapter 6: Diversity management in today's companies IV. Case studies EPILOGUE: TEN CONCRETE QUESTIONS FOR GLOBAL REFLECTION

'In this highly informative book Celia De Anca and Antonio Vazquez Vega underline the crucial importance of managing diversity not only for business leaders but also for executives in charge of any activity with a major geographical reach. Accelerated rates of technological change have so compressed space and shrunk time that the world's cultures are intermixed in a degree hitherto unknown. The authors' analysis of this development demonstrates clearly how powerful the benefits and dangerous pitfalls are in managing global business in this entirely new human environment. But this text is not just an academic study or a manual for business executives; rather these scholars also offer us numerous examples of how to cope positively with forces of global change emphasizing cultural diversity; and their discoveries, given recent events, are fundamentally important for all who are involved in international affairs.' - Andrew C. Hess, Professor of Diplomacy, Former Academic Dean, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

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