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This is the first book to take a critical look at the complex, generational challenges in the higher education workplace. The book offers best practice human resource and diversity strategies to assist higher education in responding to emerging budget pressures by optimizing the capabilities of multigenerational talent.
Sommario
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Joe R. FeaginIntroduction: Forces and Fissures in The Higher Education Landscape
1. The Value of Intergenerational Diversity
2. The Looming Generational Crisis in Higher Education Employment
3. Behavioral and Process-Based Aspects of Ageism and Generational Status
4. Generational Status and Academic Realilties
5. Counteracting and Resisting Generational and Ageist Frames
6. Best-In-Class Multigenerational Human Resource and Diversity Policies and Programs
7. Looking Ahead: Opportunities and Recommendations
References
Info autore
Edna Chun and
Alvin Evans are award-winning authors and human resource and diversity thought-leaders with extensive experience in complex, multi-campus systems of higher-education. Two of their books,
Are the Walls Really Down? Behavioral and Organizational Barriers to Faculty and Staff Diversity (2007) and
Bridging the Diversity Divide: Globalization and Reciprocal Empowerment in Higher Education (2009) were the recipients of the prestigious Kathryn G. Hanson Publication Award by the national College and University Professional Association for Human Resources. They are also the authors of the first book appearing in Routledge's Critical Viewpoints book series,
Diverse Administrators in Peril (2012). Their co-authored book,
The New Talent Acquisition Frontier: Integrating HR and Diversity Strategy in the Private and Public Sectors and Higher Education (Stylus, 2014), received a silver medal in the 2014 Axiom Business Book Awards and is the first book to provide a concrete road map to the integration of HR and diversity strategy. Edna Chun is Chief Learning Officer and Alvin Evans is Higher Education Practice Leader for HigherEd Talent, a national diversity and human resources consulting firm. Edna Chun is also Lecturer in the Human Capital Management Department of the Columbia University School of Professional Studies.
Riassunto
This is the first book to take a critical look at the complex, generational challenges in the higher education workplace. The book offers best practice human resource and diversity strategies to assist higher education in responding to emerging budget pressures by optimizing the capabilities of multigenerational talent.
