Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
Bestseller
BestsellerE-Book

Title Managing diversity in corporate America : an exploratory analysis / Jefferson P. Marquis [and others].

Publication Info. Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2007.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 All Libraries - Shared Downloadable Materials  JSTOR Open Access Ebook    Downloadable
All patrons click here to access this title from JSTOR
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Internet  WORLD WIDE WEB E-BOOK JSTOR    Downloadable
Please click here to access this JSTOR resource
Description 1 online resource (ix, 34 pages).
data file rda
Series Occasional paper ; OP-206-RC
Occasional paper (Rand Corporation) ; OP-206.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 33-34).
Contents Introduction -- The diversity management literature -- Does the diversity literature hold up in practice? -- Are best practices enough? -- Conclusion -- Appendix: A. Fortune's criteria for the "best companies for minorities" -- B. Diversity manager interview protocol.
Summary Managing diversity has become a primary concern of top U.S. corporations. In this paper, the authors develop a fact-based approach to modeling diversity management. They use the model to determine whether diversity-friendly corporations really do stand out from other companies by analyzing the strategies pursued by 14 large U.S. companies recognized for their diversity or human resource (HR) achievements. Finally, to understand whether best practices alone make a company diversity-friendly, they compare a number of characteristics of best diversity companies, best HR companies, and other companies, using quantitative and qualitative methods. They find that firms recognized for diversity are distinguished by a core set of motives and practices that resemble those presented in the best-practices literature, but that best practices per se may not enable a company to achieve a high level of diversity. Contextual factors, such as industry affiliation and company size, may be as significant as strategic factors in influencing the extent of a company's diversity.
Note Print version record.
Subject Diversity in the workplace -- United States -- Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Workplace Culture.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Human Resources & Personnel Management.
Diversity in the workplace -- Management. (OCoLC)fst00895720
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Added Author Marquis, Jefferson P.
Other Form: Print version: Managing diversity in corporate America. Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2007 9780833043054 0833043056 (DLC) 2007048227 (OCoLC)182573605
ISBN 9780833044396 (electronic bk.)
0833044397 (electronic bk.)
-->
Add a Review