Valuing Diversity: New Tools for a New Reality [Hardcover]

Lewis Griggs (Author), Lente-Louise Louw (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0070247781 | ISBN-13: 978-0070247789 | Publication Date: October 1, 1994 | Edition: 1

Change Diversity From Drawback to Dividend. Enabling all employees to develop and contribute to their utmost potential can give your firm a powerful competitive advantage. Now award-winning industrial filmakers Lewis Griggs and Lent Louw have created complete training plan you can follow to increase diversity awareness and acceptance. Using just your existing people and resource, /IValuing Diversity: New Tools for a New Reality/N give you all the guidance you need to: implement a hands-on diveristy program tailored to your firm's demographics and culture; get people to discuss diversity issues and develop workable interpersonal relationshiops; adapt organizational systems to take worker's differences into account; develop a Diversity Journal Learning Map to chart your company's goals and measure progress; and much more.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 263 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (October 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070247781
• ISBN-13: 978-0070247789
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,749,379 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Helpful strategies for employers with a newly diverse workforce, June 5, 2008

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This review is from: Valuing Diversity: New Tools for a New Reality (Hardcover)

A workbook, a guide, a list of resources, a treasure trove of inspirational vignettes, this is the book for managers needing a little support in working with the rapidly changing workforce. For those managers, three components of the book stand out. There are resources for assessing one's personal commitment, and for finding the courage to lead more effectively. There are practical guidelines for developing effective teams in a diverse workplace. And, at the core of the book, there are thoughtful pieces on how to build, and why to build, meaningful realtionships among people of vastly differing backgrounds. Some of the concepts and references may be a bit daunting, but the models, case studies, and interview excerpts are extremely applicable, and readily understood by anyone familiar with this contemporary challenge, and needing some assistance with it.