Managing a Diverse Workforce : Learning Activities

by Gary N. Powell

• ISBN13: 9781412990929
• ISBN10: 1412990920
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-17
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc

Summary

Managing a Diverse Workforce provides a comprehensive set of learning activities that address issues related to workplace diversity. Participation in these exercises helps students gain a greater appreciation of the wide range of issues that arise when people classify themselves or are classified by others as members of different groups, on whatever basis. More than half of the 30 learning activities are new to this Third Edition.The learning activities have several noteworthy features:- They explore the impact of diversity on the basis of numerous personal characteristics, including gender, race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, physical and mental abilities, national culture, religion, socioeconomic status, education, appearance, weight, marital status, and parental status.- They address pre-organizational and organizational entry issues as well as issues that arise in the workplace.- They examine issues pertaining to individuals' work and personal lives and to society as a whole.- They consider what it is like to manage, be managed by, and work with diverse others as peers.- They offer powerful learning experiences that involve individuals, groups, and entire classes or training programs.- They offer different types of learning experiences, including diagnostic instruments, role plays, and simulations.- They draw upon many types of work settings, including both business and not-for-profit organizations.- Managing a Diverse Workforce is a perfect companion to core texts in workforce diversity, managing diversity, and human resource development, including Gary Powell's Women and Men in Management, Fourth Edition.

Table of Contents

Introduction/Dimensions of Diversity

Your Pie Chart

People Like Us

Working with People in the Majority Group

Becoming a Minority

Working with People from a Different National Culture

Would You Repeat That?

Being Socialized

Gender-Based Perceptions

Once Upon a Time

Making Employment Decisions

Consulting Analyst Wanted

Who Gets Hired?

The Prison "Break"

Working in Diverse Teams

The Prison "Break"

Promoting Positive Race Relations

Beyond O. J.

Leading People

Designer Decorations

Dealing with Sexuality in the Workplace

Dealing with Sexually Oriented Behavior

Mixing Sex and Work

Managing the Work-Family Interface

Have I Got Good News for Us!

Managing from a Distance

Pursuing a Career

Managing from a Distance

Networking Role Play

Working as a Non-Family Member in a Family Firm

We Are Family

Working with People with Disabilities

Puzzled Perceptions

Sara's Acting Strange Lately

Working with People of a Different Age

The Older Employee

The College Graduate

Promoting Nondiscrimination

Diversity Incidents

Promoting Diversity

Affirmative Action at Ole State

Promoting Inclusion

The Inclusive Workplace

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