"The ""numbers"" were achieved. The workshops attended. Most
people in your organization have gotten their ""isms"" under
control. But here you are again, recycling yet another round of
costly diversity programs -- and still unable to overcome the
problems and reap the benefits of your diverse workforce.
That's because most organizations, despite good intentions and
hard work, are stuck in their diversity efforts, says R. Roosevelt
Thomas, Jr., a leading diversity expert who has continually raised
the bar on how we think and act on a complex array of diversity
issues. In our communities as well as in our workplaces, a feeling
of frustration has emerged as the promise of the Civil Rights
Movement and affirmative action has become overly politicized and
polarizing. But managing diversity is not a new issue. In fact, it
is both a hallmark and core challenge that organizations and
society have confronted since the founding of America, ""an
experiment in diversity.""
Building on the Promise of Diversity is Thomas's impassioned
wake-up call to bring diversity management to a wholly new level --
beyond finger-pointing and well-meaning "initiatives" and toward
the shared goal of building robust organizations and thriving
communities. This original, thoughtful, yet action-oriented book
will help leaders in any setting -- business, religious,
educational, governmental, community groups, and more -- break out
of the status quo and reinvigorate the can-do spirit of making
things better.
The book includes a deeply felt analysis of the sometimes
tangled intersections between diversity management and the Civil
Rights Movement and affirmative action agendas . . . a personal
narrative that charts Thomas's own evolution in diversity thinking
. . . and a roadmap for mastering the powerful craft of Strategic
Diversity Management(TM), a structured process that helps you:
* Realize why multiple activities and good intentions are not
enough for achieving sustainable progress.
* Recast the meaning of diversity as more than just race and
gender, but as any set of differences, similarities, and tensions
-- such as workplace functions, product lines, acquisitions and
mergers, customers and markets, blended families, community
diversity, and more.
* Accept that a realistic goal is not to eliminate diversity
tension but to use it as a catalyst to address key issues.
* Recognize diversity mixtures, analyze them accurately, and
make quality decisions in the midst of differences, similarities,
and tensions.
* Build an essential set of diversity skills and develop your
"diversity maturity" -- the wisdom, judgment, and experience to use
those skills effectively.
* Reflect on the ways you might be "diversity challenged"
yourself.
Diversity is the reality of America today. Whether you let
diversity be a drain on your organization or a dynamic contributor
to your mission, vision, and strategy is both a choice and a
challenge. Building on the Promise of Diversity gives you the
insights and skills you need to navigate through simmering tensions
-- and find creative solutions for achieving cohesiveness,
connectedness, and common goals."
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