Workforce Diversity - Current and Emerging Issues and Cases

Workforce Diversity is a text/case book d/caesigned to introduce students to the core concepts, theoretical frameworks, and issues surrounding the expansive topic of diversity within the workplace.

List of contents

Preface
Part I. Establishing Workforce Diversity Foundations
Chapter 1. Historical Perspectives for Studying Workforce Diversity
Chapter 2. Suggested Theoretical Frameworks and Conceptual Models to Address Emerging Workforce Diversity Issues
Chapter 3. Exploring the Relationship between the Organizational Culture and Workforce Diversity
Part II. Traditional Workforce Diversity Issues
Chapter 4. Race and Workforce Diversity
Chapter 5. Gender and Workforce Diversity - Brenda Lloyd-Jones, Lisa Bass, and Gaetane Jean-Marie
Chapter 6. Ethnicity and Workforce Diversity - Chaunda L. Scott and Terrance McClain
Chapter 7. Developing Human Resource Development Competencies to Manage Sexual Orientation and Transgender Issues in the Workforce - Michael Chaney and Lisa Hawley
Chapter 8. Social Class in the Workforce - Marilyn Y. Byrd, Jose Martinez, and Chaunda L. Scott
Part III. The Emerging Issues of a Contemporary Workforce
Chapter 9. Spirituality in the Workforce
Chapter 10. Intergenerational Workforce Tensions in the Workforce - Brenda Lloyd-Jones and Jody Worley
Chapter 11. Cross-Cultural Teams in the Workforce with Global Implications - Trammell Bristol and Chaunda L. Scott
Chapter 12. Linguistic Profiling in the Workforce - Claretha Hughes and Ketevan Mamiseishvili
Chapter 13. Personal/Physical Appearance Stigmatizing in the Workforce - Cynthia Sims
Chapter 14. Visible/Invisible Disabilities in the Workforce: Exclusion and Discrimination
Chapter 15. Re-Emergence of Racial Harassment and Hate Symbols in the Workforce
Chapter 16. Leveraging Workforce Diversity

About the author

Marilyn Y. Byrd is Assistant Professor of Management and Marketing, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, Belton, Texas. Dr. Byrd earned a BBA and MBA from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, and Ph.D in Human Resource Development from Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas. She is a former administrator with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in Huntsville, Texas where she was responsible for human resource functions for the Records and Classification Department. Dr. Byrd is a member of the Academy of Management and the Academy of Human Resource Development where she serves on the Diversity Committee SIG. She is interested in contributing to research in the area of leadership theorizing that reflects the multiple perspectives that shape the leadership experience. Her other research interests include group dynamics in organizations, social systems in organizations, issues emerging from diversity, and pursuing training interventions in the area of organizational social justice. Dr. Chaunda L. Scott is an Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator of the Master of Training and Development Program in the Department of Human Resource Development (HRD) at Oakland University in Rochester Michigan. Dr. Scott comes to Oakland University by way of The White House, The Harvard Graduate School of Education and Teachers College Columbia University. At Oakland University, Dr. Scott teaches a variety of other HRD courses in the Undergraduate HRD Program, Masters of Training and Development Program and the Honors College. Her scholarly research interests lie in the following areas: eradicating racism, workforce diversity education and training, human resource development, training and development, organizational culture, and organizational justice, and she has published her research in a number of respected journals including the Human Resource Development Quarterly, The International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations, The International Journal of Intellectual Capital and The Journal of College Student Retention. She has as well presented her research in such locations as the Republic of South Africa, Oxford, England, Beijing, China, Limerick, Ireland, Montreal, Canada, Washington D.C., and Minneapolis, Minnesota. In addition to the above, Dr. Scott is the Founder and President of the Diverse Voices Initiative, created in 1999. Diverse Voices is a Michigan statewide higher education initiative that provides a supportive forum for Michigan higher education students, renowned scholars, business professionals and community members to speak out in support of valuing all aspects of human diversity. She also serves as chair of the Academy of Human Resource Development's (AHRD) Cultural Diversity Special Interest Group, a member of the Academy of Management, and an appointed member of the Society of Human Resource Management Diversity & Inclusion Standards Task Force. Most notable in 2009, Dr. Scott received a Cutting Edge Research Award from the Academy of Human Resource Development.

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Marilyn Y. Scott Byrd
• Assisted by: Marilyn Y. Byrd (Editor), Chaunda L. Scott (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.12.2011
• EAN: 9781412987943
• ISBN: 978-1-4129-8794-3
• No. of pages: 344