THE PSYCHOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT OF WORKPLACE DIVERSITY

Immigration and globalization, combined with new civil rights laws and changes in public opinion have resulted in vastly increased workplace diversity in the last half-century. The Psychology and Management of Workplace Diversitay is a collection of newly commissioned articles that provide sophisticated and comprehensive views of the challenges and opportunities that diversity poses for organizations, their leaders, and their members.

• Provides sophisticated and comprehensive views of the challenges and opportunities that workplace diversity poses for organizations, their leaders, and their members.
  
• Examines how diversity has, does, and should work with respect to a series of dimensions, including gender, race or ethnicity, age, disability, obesity, sexual orientation, and social class.
  
• Offers guidance on how organizations can change to become more multiculturally inclusive, describes diversity management around the globe, and suggests some strategies for managing diversity.
  
• Supplemented with a website - www.blackwellpublishing.com/stockdale - that includes an activity guide and testbank.

Faye J. Crosby is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has published numerous books, reviews, and articles in the area of social justice, including Juggling (1991), still widely cited for its role in influencing employers’ views of working mothers. She is also the editor of Sex, Race and Merit: Debating Affirmative Action in Education and Employment (2000, with Cheryl VanDeVeer) and Spouse, Parent, Worker: On Gender and Multiple Roles (1987).

Foreword.

Preface.

Part I: Foundation.

1. Why now?The contemporary interest in managing diversity. (Rosemary Hays-Thomas).

2. The arguments against diversity: Are they valid? (Kecia Thomas , Dan Mack, & Amelie Montagliani).

Part II: Models and Processes.

3. Models and Practice of Diversity Management: A Historical Review and Presentation of a New Integration Theory. (Janet Kottke and Mark Agars).

4. The Influence of Culture on Role-Taking in Culturally Diverse Organizations. (Eugene F. Stone- Romero and Dianna L. Stone).

5. Leadership in a diverse workplace. (Donna Chrobot-Mason and Marian Ruderman).

6. Health Implications of Workplace Diversity. (Lynda Sagrestano).

Part III: Diverse Groups.

7. Shattering the Glass Ceiling in the New Millenium. (Linda Stroh, Christine Langlands and Patricia A. Simpson).

8. Toward the Inclusiveness and Career Success of African Americans in the Workplace. (Kevin Cokley, George Dreher & Margaret S. Stockdale).

9. Age, Disability, And Obesity: Similarities, Differences, And Common Threads. (Myrtle P. Bell , Mary E. McLaughlin and Jennifer M. Sequeira).

10. Diversity and Sexual Orientation Including and Valuing Sexual Minorities in the Workplace. (Micah E. Lubinsky, Sarah L. Holland, Carolyn Wiethoff, & Faye J. Crosby.

11. Class Diversity in the Workplace. (Heather E. Bullock).

Part IV: Further Developments:.

12. Creating and Sustaining Diversity and Inclusion in Organizations: Strategies and Approaches: Evangalina Holvino (Simmons College), Bernardo Ferdman (Alliant International University), and Deborah Merrill-Sands (Simmons College).

13. International Perspectives in Managing Workplace Diversity. (Rana Haq).

14. Looking Back and Heading Forward: Major Themes of The Psychology and Management of Workplace Diversity. (Margaret S. Stockdale and Feng Cao).

References.

Biographic Summaries.

Subject Index.

Author Index.