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Beyond Race and Gender: Unleashing the Power of Your Total Workforce by Managing Diversity
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The ability to successfully manage diversity in the workplace has become a basic strategy for corporate survival. Thomas supplies an action plan, extensive case studies, and a series of tough questions and answers to get readers thinking seriously about what elements are blocking the full use of their employees.
Product Description
By the year 2000 only one in every seven new employees will be the standard-issue white male. The ability to manage this diversity successfully has become a basic strategy for corporate survival. Beyond Race and Gender supplies a sorely needed Action Plan, extensive case studies, and a series of tough questions and answers to get readers thinking deeply about what elements are blocking the full use of their employees.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #193820 in Books
- Published on: 1992-10-08
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 208 pages
Editorial Reviews
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"""A superb book that merits our keen attention."" --American Society for Training and Development
""One of the best business books of 1991."" --Library Journal"
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"""Must reading for anyone who has a concern with her/his enterprise being competitive in the race for survival."" --Theodore Payne, Xerox
""Organizations are awakening to the fact that a diverse workforce is not a burden, but their greatest potential strength...I believe in Roosevelt's theories because I've seen them work."" --James Preston, CEO, Avon"
About the Author
DR. R. ROOSEVELT THOMAS, JR. is president of The American Institute for Managing Diversity, which he founded in 1983. He has also served as an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School.
Customer Reviews
No Solutions
Pretty good overall. Only a very high level overview, that doesn't really go "Beyond Race and Gender." All talk and no solutions. I don't think Roosevelt bases his conclusions on sound statistics, either.
