The Global Diversity Desk Reference: Managing an International Workforce - Softcover

The Global Diversity Desk Reference helps you understand the new corporate cultures that are created by going global; enables you to recognize, reconcile, and leverage the differences inherent in a diverse workforce; and provides tools to help you maximize the diversity of your global workforce. To succeed in the global marketplace, organizations must be able to identify issues and business needs related to diversity and find ways to creatively maximize the ways in which those differences help the company succeed.

The Global Diversity Desk Reference offers a proactive, strategic approach for tapping into and managing the tremendous potential of an international workforce. The authors show how to increase effectiveness in managing transnational diversity at three levels–the individual, interpersonal, and organizational. In addition, the book is filled with practical tools, concrete suggestions, and pragmatic methods to successfully reconcile the diversity within a global workforce and align organizational systems, policies, and practices with the requirements of an international workforce.

The Global Diversity Desk Reference presents the most relevant information and activities that build awareness, increase knowledge, and enhance our ability to create options for resolution inside our organizations. Each chapter includes guidance for selecting the most suitable actions when working with a globally diverse workforce.

Created to be accessible and hands-on, this essential resource includes a CD-ROM with electronic tools and templates that can be customized for use in any organization.