Individual Diversity and Psychology in Organizations (eBook)

Marilyn J. Davidson, Sandra L. Fielden (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: PDF

2004
434 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-86963-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Workplace initiatives to manage diversity seek to fully develop the
potential of each employee and turn their unique skills into a
business advantage. Such fostering of difference enhances team
creativity, innovation and problem-solving and is therefore an
essential strategy for today's employers.

Individual Diversity and Psychology in Organizations is an
indispensable handbook for all those involved in managing
diversity. Its academic and practice-oriented perspective is unique
as it presents practical strategies and case studies alongside
academic reviews, giving the reader a balanced overview of each
topic. The team of expert authors examine international issues in
diversity, such as:

* Strategies for managing organizational effectiveness Legal and
psychological implications

* Diversity training and its effectiveness Disability, racial
equality, age and gender diversity Affirmative action

* Recognizing stereotypes and bias

* Business ethics

* The Future of diversity

This much needed handbook will be welcomed by researchers,
academics and students in organizational psychology, management and
business. It will also be of great use to professionals in human
resources, equal opportunities management and management
consultancy.

Autor

Marilyn Davidson is Professor of Managerial Psychology in the Manchester School of Management, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. She is author/co-author of 14 books on 'women at work', 'women in management' and 'occupational stress'. Three of her most recent books are 'Shattering the Glass Ceiling - The Woman Manager', Women In Management: Current Research Issues Volume II' and 'The Black and Ethnic Minority Woman Manager - Cracking the Concrete Ceiling' (which was shortlisted for the Best Management Book of the Year). She has been employed as a research consultant for numerous organizations and Government bodies, is a Chartered Psychologist and Fellow of the British Psychological Society and Royal Society of Arts. Sandra Fielden is the Director of the Centre for Business Psychology, with interests in gender, diversity, equal opportunities, occupational stress, unemployment, small business success, psychological contract and organizational change. The Centre is involved in applied research and consultancy activities within the public and private sector, including European funded research into gender issues and economic growth. Sandra has written a number of book chapters relating to the position of woman managers and stress, and her first book (co-authored by Marilyn Davidson) "Managerial Unemployment: Threat or Reality" is due for publication in 2000. She is currently the editor of Women in Management Review and lectures in several areas of psychology, including 'Gender and Diversity', at Manchester School of Management, UMIST.

Inhalt

About the Editors.

About the Contributors.

Series Preface.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Part I: STRATEGIC APPROACHES TO DIVERSITY.

1. Developing Strategic Approaches to Diversity Policy (Gill
Kirton).

2. Practice Chapter - The Importance of Diversity in Innovation
(Carolann Ashton).

3. Diversity in the Context of Business Ethics (Catherine
Cassell and Phil Johnson).

4. Managing Diversity: Developing a Strategy for Measuring
Organizational Effectiveness (Michael L. Wheeler).

Part II: LEGAL AND CULTURAL ISSUES.

5. Management of Diversity in the UK - The Legal and
Psychological Implications (Jill Earnshaw).

6. Affirmative Action as a Means of Increasing Workforce
Diversity (Alison M. Konrad and Frank Linnehan).

7. Principles and Practice of Gender Diversity Management in
Australia (Mary Barrett and Andrew Hede).

8. Organizational Efforts to Manage Diversity: Do They Really
Work? (Penny Dick).

9. Managing Diversity: Caste and Gender Issues in Organizations
in India (Elisabeth M. Wilson).

Part III: SPECIFIC FORMS OF DIVERSITY.

10. Gender Diversity and Organizational Performance (Deborah
Hicks-Clarke and Paul Iles).

11. Analysing the Operation of Diversity on the Basis of
Disability (Carol Woodhams and Ardha Danieli).

12. Managing Racial Equality and Diversity in the UK
Construction Industry (Andrew W. Gale, Marilyn J. Davidson, Peter
Somerville, Dianne Sodhi, Andy Steele and Sandi Rhys Jones).

13. Is Diversity Inevitable? Age and Ageism in the Future of
Employment (Chris Brotherton).

Part IV: DIVERSITY TRAINING AND ITS EFFECTIVENESS.

14. Designing a Diversity Training Programme that Suits your
Organization (Roberta Youtan Kay and Donna M. Stringer).

15. Diversity Issues in the Mentoring Relationship (David
Clutterbuck).

16. Networking and the Modernization of Local Public Services:
Implications for Diversity (Jean Hartley and Lyndsay Rashman).

17. Workable Strategies and Effectiveness of Diversity Training
(David L. Tan, Lee A. Morris and James Romero).

Part V: RECOGNIZING STEREOTYPES, ATTITUDES AND BIAS.

18. What You See is What You Get: Popular Culture, Gender and
Workplace Diversity (Alison Sheridan and Jane O'Sullivan).

19. Male Managers' Reactions to Gender Diversity Activities in
Organizations (Anna Wahl and Charlotte Holgersson).

20. Bias in Job Selection and Assessment Techniques (Mike
Smith).

Part VI: THE FUTURE - THE MANAGEMENT OF DIVERSITY BEYOND THE
MILLENNIUM.

21. Cultural Diversity Programmes to Prepare for the 21st
Century: Failures and Lost Opportunities (Norma M. Riccucci).

22. Cultural Diversity in the IT-Globalizing Workplace: Conundra
and Future Research (Nada Korac-Kakabadse, Alexander Kouzmin and
Andrew Korac-Kakabadse).

23. The Future of Workplace Diversity in the New Millennium
(Tony Montes and Graham Shaw).

Index.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.2.2004
• Reihe/Serie: Wiley Handbooks in Work & Organizational Psychology
• Reihe/Serie: Wiley Handbooks in Work & Organizational Psychology
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Personalwesen
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
• Schlagworte: Business & Management • Human Resource Management • Organizational & Industrial Psychology • Personalmanagement • Psychologie • Psychologie i. d. Arbeitswelt • Psychology • Wirtschaft u. Management
• ISBN-10: 0-470-86963-1 / 0470869631
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-86963-5 / 9780470869635