The Psychology and Management of Workplace Diversity

by Stockdale, Margaret S.; Crosby, Faye J.

• ISBN13: 9781405100960
• ISBN10: 1405100966
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-26
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Visit the website at: www.blackwellpublishing.com/stockdaleImmigration 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.

Author Biography

Margaret S. Stockdale is Associate Professor and the Experimental Program Director in the Department of Psychology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. She has published numerous journal articles and several books, including Sexual Harassment in the Workplace (1996, edited) and Women and Men in Organizations: Sex and Gender Issues in the Workplace (2000, with Jeanette N. Cleveland and Kevin R. Murphy). In addition to her academic work Dr. Stockdale is an active applied psychology consultant.

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).

Table of Contents

Figures	vii
Contributors	viii
Foreword	xvi
Robin J. Ely
Preface	xviii
Acknowledgments	xx
Part 1 Foundations	1	(52)
1 Why Now? The Contemporary Focus on Managing Diversity	3	(28)
Rosemary Hays-Thomas
2 The Arguments Against Diversity: Are They Valid?	31	(22)
Kecia M. Thomas, Dan A. Mack, and Amelie Montagliani
Part II Models and Process	53	(92)
3 Models and Practice of Diversity Management: A Historical Review and Presentation of a New Integration Theory	55	(23)
Mark D. Agars and Janet L. Kottke
4 The Influence of Culture on Role-Taking in Culturally Diverse Organizations	78	(22)
Dianna L. Stone and Eugene F. Stone-Romero
5 Leadership in a Diverse Workplace	100	(22)
Donna Chrobot-Mason and Marian N. Ruderman
6 Health Implications of Workplace Diversity	122	(23)
Lynda M. Sagrestano
Part III Diverse Groups	145	(98)
7 Shattering the Glass Ceiling in the New Millennium	147	(21)
Linda K. Stroh, Christine L. Langlands, and Patricia A. Simpson
8 Toward the Inclusiveness and Career Success of African Americans in the Workplace	168	(23)
Kevin Cokley, George F. Dreher, and Margaret S. Stockdale
9 Age, Disability, and Obesity: Similarities, Differences, and Common Threads	191	(15)
Myrtle P. Bell, Mary E. McLaughlin, and Jennifer M. Sequeira
10 Diversity and Sexual Orientation: Including and Valuing Sexual Minorities in the Workplace	206	(18)
Micah E. Lubensky, Sarah L. Holland, Carolyn Wiethoff, and Faye J. Crosby
11 Class Diversity in the Workplace	224	(19)
Heather E. Bullock
Part IV Further Developments	243	(74)
12 Creating and Sustaining Diversity and Inclusion in Organizations: Strategies and Approaches	245	(32)
Evangelina Holvino, Bernardo M. Ferdman, and Deborah Merrill-Sands
13 International Perspectives on Workplace Diversity	277	(22)
Rana Haq
14 Looking Back and Heading Forward: Major Themes of The Psychology and Management of Workplace Diversity	299	(18)
Margaret S. Stockdale and Feng Cao
References	317	(53)
Index	370