Addressing cultural issues in organizations [[electronic resource] ] : beyond the corporate context / / editor, Robert T. Carter

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785987403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : SAGE, 2000
• ISBN: 1-5063-3875-5; 1-322-41788-1; 1-4522-6397-3; 0-7619-0548-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 297 p.) : ill
• Collana: Winter roundtable series ; ; v. 1
• Altri autori (Persone): CarterRobert T. <1948->
• Disciplina: 302.3508900973
• Soggetti: Race awareness - United States; Cultural pluralism - United States; Minorities - United States - Social conditions; Diversity in the workplace - United States; Organizational behavior - United States; United States Race relations; United States Ethnic relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-284) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I - Perspectives; Chapter 1 - Perspectives on Addressing Cultural Issues in Organizations; Chapter 2 - National Culture and the New Corporate Language for Race Relations; Chapter 3 - ""Whiting Out"" Social Justice; Chapter 4 - Making Sense of Race Relations in Organizations: Theories for Practice; Chapter 5 - School Contexts and Learning: Organizational Influences on the Achievement of Students of Color; Part II - Organizational and Institutional Settings; Chapter 6 - Families in Their Cultural and Multisystemic Contexts; Chapter 7 - Teachers as (Multi)Cultural Agents in SchoolsChapter 8 - Cultural Dynamics and Issues in Higher Education; Chapter 9 - Mental Health: The Influence of Culture on the Development of Theory and Practice; Chapter 10 - The House of God: The Fallacy of Neutral Universalism in Medicine; Chapter 11 - And Justice is Blind (to Race and ; Ethnicity): That is Not Good!; Part III - Interventions and Applications for Training; Chapter 12 - Classic Defenses: A Critical Assessment of Ambivalence and Denial in Organizational Leaders' Responses to Diversity; Chapter 13 - Enhancing Diversity Climate in Community OrganizationsChapter 14 - Social Diversity in Social Change Organizations: Standpoint Learnings for Organizational Consulting; Chapter 15 - Building Institutional Capacity to Address Cultural Differences; Chapter 16 - Cultural Issues in Organizations: Summary and Conclusions; References; Name Index; Subject Index; About the Editor; About the Contributing Authors
• Sommario/riassunto: Addressing Cultural Issues in Organizations provides conceptual models and practical approaches to organizational interventions which take account of cultural difference.