LEADER 05760nam 22006734a 450 001 9910815352403321 005 20240410090501.0 010 $a0-8144-2912-2 010 $a1-281-12640-3 010 $a9786611126407 010 $a0-8144-1705-1 035 $a(CKB)3710000000220337 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000115739 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11128536 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000115739 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10027183 035 $a(PQKB)10153137 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL242999 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10120209 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL112640 035 $a(OCoLC)437158192 035 $a(CaSebORM)9780814429129 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC242999 035 $a(PPN)220193347 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000220337 100 $a20050623d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBuilding on the promise of diversity$b[electronic resource] $ehow we can move to the next level in our workplaces, our communities, and our society /$fR. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr 205 $a1st edition 210 $aNew York $cAMACOM, American Management Association$dc2006 215 $axvii, 238 p 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8144-0862-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 217-223) and index. 327 $aCover -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART ONE: INTRODUCTION -- 1 Diversity: In Search of the Next Level -- PART TWO: CONTEXT -- 2 The United States: An Experiment in Diversity -- 3 The Civil Rights Movement: In Pursuit of the ''Beloved Community'' -- 4 Diversity and Affirmative Action: Past, Present, and Future -- 5 Current Status of the Diversity Field: Just Plain Stuck -- 6 A Personal Odyssey -- PART THREE: THE CRAFT OF STRATEGIC DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT -- 7 Strategic Diversity Management: Undergirding Concepts -- 8 Strategic Diversity Management: Five Fundamentals -- 9 Strategic Diversity Management: The Decision-Making Process at Tjax Company -- 10 Strategic Diversity Management: Foundation for Success -- 11 Getting Started -- PART FOUR: THE JOURNEY CONTINUES -- 12 Becoming a Diversity Leader -- APPENDICES: MASTERING THE BASICS: A CRITICAL STEP TOWARD DIVERSITY MATURITY-YOUR PERSONAL COACH -- Appendix A: A Letter from the Author -- Appendix B: Responding Instructions and Common Perception Response Items -- Appendix C: Tallying, Scoring, and Interpreting Scores -- Appendix D: Rationales and Interpretations, Five SDM Undergirding Concepts, and Five SDM Fundamentals -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR. 330 $aDiversity is the reality of America today. Whether you let diversity be a drain on your organization or a dynamic contributor to your mission, vision, and strategy is both a choice and a challenge. Building on the Promise of Diversity gives you the insights and skills you need to navigate through simmering tensions -- and find creative solutions for achieving cohesiveness, connectedness, and common goals. Building on the Promise of Diversity is R. Roosevelt Thomas?s impassioned wake-up call to bring diversity management to a wholly new level -- beyond finger-pointing and well-meaning ?initiatives? and toward the shared goal of building robust organizations and thriving communities. This original, thoughtful, yet action-oriented book will help leaders in any setting -- business, religious, educational, governmental, community groups, and more -- break out of the status quo and reinvigorate the can-do spirit of making things better. The book includes a deeply felt analysis of the sometimes tangled intersections between diversity management and the Civil Rights Movement and affirmative action agendas . . . a personal narrative that charts Thomas?s own evolution in diversity thinking . . . and a roadmap for mastering the powerful craft of Strategic Diversity Management?, a structured process that helps you: * Realize why multiple activities and good intentions are not enough for achieving sustainable progress. * Recast the meaning of diversity as more than just race and gender, but as any set of differences, similarities, and tensions -- such as workplace functions, product lines, acquisitions and mergers, customers and markets, blended families, community diversity, and more.* Accept that a realistic goal is not to eliminate diversity tension but to use it as a catalyst to address key issues. * Recognize diversity mixtures, analyze them accurately, and make quality decisions in the midst of differences, similarities, and tensions.* Build an essential set of diversity skills and develop your ?diversity maturity? -- the wisdom, judgment, and experience to use those skills effectively.* Reflect on the ways you might be ?diversity challenged? yourself. 606 $aDiversity in the workplace$zUnited States$xManagement 606 $aOrganizational change$zUnited States$xManagement 606 $aMinorities$xEmployment$zUnited States 606 $aStrategic planning$zUnited States 606 $aSocial change$zUnited States 615 0$aDiversity in the workplace$xManagement. 615 0$aOrganizational change$xManagement. 615 0$aMinorities$xEmployment 615 0$aStrategic planning 615 0$aSocial change 676 $a658.3/008 700 $aThomas$b R. 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