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About the author
Carol T. Kulik is currently Research Chair of HRM, School of Management, University of South Australia. Prior to this school she was at Arizona State University with Loriann Roberson. Carol’s interests encompass cognitive processes, demographic diversity and procedural fairness in organizations, and her research focues on explaining how human resource management interventions influence the fair treatment of people in organizations. She won the Sage Scholarship Award from the Gender, Diversity in Organizations division of the Academy of Management in 2007. She is a member of APA, Fellow of SIOP and Member of the Society of Organizational Behavior in Australia.
Loriann Roberson is Professor Straordinarion in Psicologia Social e del Lavoro in Naples, Italy. She is also Professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College of Columbia University, New York. She received her Phd in Industrial Organizational Psychology from the University of Minnesota and served on the faculties of NYU and Arizona State University.She teaches courses in cross cultural management, and an MBA course on Human Resource Management with an emphasis on diversity. She currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Review, and the Journal of Management
Summary
Greater workforce diversity is the goal of most organizations around the world. The academic literature has indicated that “more effective customer service, higher workforce morale and improved financial performance will result from greater workforce diversity, but only if its effectively managed”. Kulik and Roberson are leaders in linking theoretical frameworks and empirical evidence to show the effectivenss of diversity management to organizational outcomes (see Kulik and Roberson : Diversity initiatives effectiveness in Brief: Diversity at Work, Cambridge University Press and their often sited article Common Goals and Golden Opportunities: Evaluations of Diversity Education in academic and Organizational Settings, Academy of Management Learning and Education 7, 309-331.
The goal of this authored book is to :
1. Present the available theory underlying diversity programs and interventions
2. Review the research on diversity programs around the world
3. Develop a research agenda that identifies the most pressing questions to address in diversity management
