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Managing a Diverse Workforce
Learning Activities

Third Edition


November 2010 | 144 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

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.

 
Introduction/Dimensions of Diversity
 
1. Your Pie Chart
 
2. People Like Us
 
Working with People in the Majority Group
 
3. Becoming a Minority
 
Working with People from a Different National Culture
 
4. Would You Repeat That?
 
Being Socialized
 
5. Gender-Based Perceptions
 
6. Once Upon a Time
 
Making Employment Decisions
 
7. Consulting Analyst Wanted
 
8. Who Gets Hired?
 
Working in Diverse Teams
 
9. The Prison “Break”
 
Promoting Positive Race Relations
 
10. Beyond O. J.
 
Leading People
 
11. Designer Decorations
 
Dealing with Sexuality in the Workplace
 
12. Dealing With Sexually Oriented Behavior
 
13. Mixing Sex and Work
 
Managing the Work-Family Interface
 
14. Have I Got Good News for Us!
 
15. Managing From a Distance
 
Pursuing a Career
 
16. Networking Role Play
 
Working as a Non-Family Member in a Family Firm
 
17. We Are Family
 
Working with People with Disabilities
 
18. Puzzled Perceptions
 
19. Sara’s Acting Strange Lately
 
Working with People of a Different Age
 
20. The Older Employee
 
21. The College Graduate
 
Promoting Nondiscrimination
 
22. Diversity Incidents
 
Promoting Diversity
 
23. Affirmative Action at Ole State
 
Promoting Inclusion
 
24. The Inclusive Workplace

This workbook of exercises is a nice supplement to the corresponding Powell text.

Professor Shelle Poole
Sociology Dept, Boise State University
October 27, 2012

Love that is it up to date current research. It replaced my prior Powell text for the same course

Professor Shelle Poole
Sociology Dept, Boise State University
October 27, 2012

Gary N. Powell

Gary N. Powell, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Management at the University of Connecticut. He is author of Gender in Management (6th ed.), Gender and Leadership, Making Work and Family Work: From Hard Choices to Smart Choices, and Managing a Diverse Workforce: Learning Activities (3rd ed.), and the editor of Handbook of Gender and Work. He is an internationally recognized scholar and educator on gender, diversity, and work-family issues in the workplace. His graduate course on women and men in management won an award on innovation in education from the Committee on Equal Opportunity for Women of the Association to Advance Collegiate... More About Author

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