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The
Global Diversity Desk Reference
Managing
an International Workforce
Pfeiffer, 2003
Authors: Lee Gardenswartz, Anita Rowe, Patricia Digh and Martin Bennett
"This
book provides amazingly rich sources of
conceptual models, practical guides and
training tools to lead, manage,
facilitate, and coach an intellectual
diverse workforce for higher creativity
and performance in global business. I
recommend the book without
reservation."
Kichiro
Hayashi, professor, Intercultural
Management and Communication, Graduate
School of International Management, Aoyama
Gakuin University, Tokyo,
Japan
This resource offers a stragegic approach for managing international organizations for success in the worldwide marketplace. It provides practical advice, tools and techniques including a CD with reproducible activities, assessments and checklists.
The authors show you how to:

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PART
ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF GLOBAL
DIVERSITY
1. Beyond Diversity: What Is
Culture?
2. What is Global
Diversity? |

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PART
TWO: MANAGING A GLOBAL
WORKFORCE
3. Communicating Effectively
Across Cultures
4. Maximizing Global Teams and
Work Groups for Higher
Performance
5. Managing Conflict in an
International Environment
6. Problem Solving in Global
Organizations |

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PART
THREE: DEVELOPING YOUR
ORGANIZATION'S GLOBAL
COMPETENCE
7. Systems for Using People
Effectively in Global
Organizations
8. Managing Performance in an
International Workforce
9. You as a Tool: Leader as a
Change Agent |
When
working in a global setting, actions need
to be informed by an acute awareness of
diversity. And global diversity is too
large (and too important) an issue for
organizations to rely on the individual
manager. Efforts to heighten awareness of
diversity must be centralized and human
resources is the key. This important
resource written for human resource
professionals offers a comprehensive guide
on the topic of global diversity. It
includes the most current research and a
collection of much-needed tools. The
contributors include the leading
authorities on global diversity and this
volume also includes a CD-ROM with
electronic tools and templates that can be
customized for use in any
organization.
A professional and
impeccably researched guide to global
diversity:
- Contributors to
this volume represent the top names in
the field.
- This important
resource is filled with practical
tools.
- Handy,
single-volume reference is
comprehensive in scoop.
- Includes a
customizable CD-ROM.
ISBN
0-7879-6773-4 $75.00 |
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MANAGING
DIVERSITY: A Complete Desk Reference &
Planning
Guide-Revised
Edition-McGraw-Hill, 1998
This resource, that won SHRM's Book of the Year Award for HR professionals, provides conceptual information and over 80 reproducible checklists, assessments and training tools for managing diversity and creating a culture of inclusion. Chapters include information on diversity audits, measurement and evaluation, systems change, culture and communication. Gardenswartz & Rowe show
you how to:

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Recruit,
retain, mentor, and promote
diverse employees to eliminate
high turnover rates. |

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Build
cohesive, productive,
cross-cultural work
teams |

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Use
assessment tools built around a
host of diversity
issues |

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Gain
fundamental knowledge to
implement any diversity
initiative |
Praise
for the Previous Edition of Managing
Diversity
"It's
a gold mine! I was excited to see that it
truly is a complete desk reference. This
book addresses every aspect of workplace
diversity issues, from the individual,
group, and organizational
perspectives."
- -Jeanne
Hartley, Manager of Training and
Development, The Los Angeles
Times
"Managing
Diversity is an outstanding, usable
reference book loaded with answers on
'what to do' and 'how to do it' in
managing our diverse work
force."
- -David
W. Jamieson, Ph.D., President, Jamieson
Consulting Group
Coauthor of Managing Workforce 2000 and Gaining the Diversity
Advantage
"Managing
Diversity is well-written, comprehensive,
user-friendly, sensitive, and a must read
and library addition for all those whose
mission includes work force diversity
issues."
- -Jeffrey
N. Wallace, Director, Workforce
Diversity and EEO Sony Pictures
Entertainment
As
you begin to implement diversity training
in your organization, this complete guide
is essential reading. It offers practical,
usable tools. Worksheets, activities, and
charts are provided for active
implementation of the ideas presented in
the book. Extensive resource section. (538
pages)
ISBN
0-07-022004-2 $100.00
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Updated and Revised on available CD
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THE
DIVERSITY TOOL
KIT
Revised Edition
Gardenswartz & Rowe (2009)
This CD contains over 100 reproducible training activities with detailed directions for facilitation. Interactive activities are ready to use for diversity training, team building, and meetings to engage executives, HR staff, mangers and employees in understanding and supporting diversity and developing skills to work with others more effectively.
From
a "diversity trainer self-assessment" to a
yardstick for measuring cross-cultural
team growth to a complete guide to
communication styles, this Tool Kit
provides everything you need to:

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Customize
a cost-effective diversity
training program to the needs of
your organization and its
employees |

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Anticipate
and deal with emotionally charged
issues surrounding culture,
change, power, and
prejudice |

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Help
employees move beyond mere
awareness to proactive measures
in dealing with
diversity |
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DIVERSE
TEAMS AT WORK
Capitalizing on the Power of
Diversity
SHRM
(2003)
Diverse
Teams at Work shows managers and team members how to use differences on a team as an asset. In addition to conceptual information about how diverse teams build, it provides practical processes, tools and activities touse to increase teamwork and productivity.
iverse
Teams at Work provides:

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An
analysis of how dimensions of
diversity, from race, gender, and
age to more subtle differences
such as education, work function,
and level, shape expectations and
team behavior |

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A
model of team functioning,
showing how the diversity of team
members can influence each of the
four aspects of how teams
work |

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Processes
for building teams by fostering
interdependence among
employees |

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Guidelines
for starting new teams,
integrating new members to the
group, ending group experiences,
and diagnosing problem
spots |

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Key
tips for resolving conflicts,
solving problems, and making
decisions as a highly diverse
group |

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Fifty
practical tools |
More Information click here.
Not a book about statistical
process measures or analytical problem
solving approaches. Diverse Teams at Work
will inspire your team to recognize and
welcome its differences and clear the path
for extraordinary accomplishment as it
draws on the many and varied gifts of its
diverse members. (251 pages)
$35.00
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THE
LENDING & DIVERSITY
TRAINING WORKBOOK
The
Hands-on Guide to Increasing Profits,
Meeting Regulatory Requirements, and
Expanding Markets by Meeting the Diverse
Needs of Your Community
Irwin
Professional Publishing (1996)
In
this companion to The Lending &
Diversity Handbook, you will find
a hands-on guide to the cultural and legal
aspects of lending. Easy-to-use,
easy-to-understand, and easy-to-apply, the
Workbook includes learning activities that
educate you about culture and stereotypes
and help you learn how to reach and serve
new communities. The Workbook explores
avenues for expanding profits and
increasing market share, compliance with
CRA regulations, and capitalizing on the
demographics of the marketplace. In
addition to charts, activities,
worksheets, and questions for discussion
and review, the Workbook offers techniques
for dealing effectively with diverse
customers and creating new business
opportunities in your community. It will
help you:

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Adapt
customer service practices to
meet the needs of diverse
customers |

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Identify
cultural differences that impact
services, delivery, and
interactions |

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Deal
with vexing diversity issues such
as helping non-traditional
borrowers build credit
worthiness, overcome language
barriers, and communicate
expectations to customers
unfamiliar with American banking
regulations |

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Design
a marketing strategy with a
long-term vision designed to
build the mutual relationships
that helps banks maximize profits
and borrowers secure necessary
loans |
The Lending & Diversity Training
Workbook is a practical guide that
will help you increase knowledge, skills,
and growth while increasing profits and
opportunities by tapping emerging and
previously under served markets. (78
pages)
ISBN
0-7863-0855-9 $9.95 |

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MANAGING
DIVERSITY IN HEALTH
CARE
How
to Create and Manage Environments for
Everyone
Jossey-Bass
Publishers (1998)
This resource serves as a handbook for becoming more culturally sensitive and responsive to both coworkers and patients in order to deliver quality health care. It focuses on building productive work relationships, managing prejudice and bias and communicating effectively in a culturally and linguistically diverse setting.
Capter
after chapter is filled with practical
information, helpful suggestions,
effective strategies, and models and
checklists that are fundamental to
creating a culturally competent health
care organization. The book includes
critical knowledge on a wide range of
topics:

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Common
misunderstandings that often
occur in a cross-cultural
environment |

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Standards
of privacy: the importance and
criteria of status; beliefs about
the body, healing, and dying; and
other cultural factors that
influence the health care
experience |

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Culturally
sensitive ways to solicit
relevant information |

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Strategies
for minimizing the negative
effects of
stereotyping |

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The
seven essential steps for
affecting long-term
organizational change |

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Examples
of real-life solutions
implemented by health care
organizations |

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A
current listing of the most
useful books, videos, articles,
newsletters, and published
training materials on the topic
of diversity |
With this book as a touchstone, staff at
all levels-executives and direct care
providers-can acquire the adaptability,
knowledge, and openness needed to create a
productive and harmonious work environment
and provide sensitive and caring health
services to all their patients. (224
pages)
"This
insightful and practical work should be
required reading for managers, physicians,
nurses, allied health caregivers and
support staff, in order to overcome
barriers to communication and change in
dealing with an increasingly complex
patient and employee base. I highly
endorse this excellent book written by
these outstanding authors."
- -Donald
R. Oxley, Vice President and Executive
Director, Kaiser Permanente
"A
superb and complete reference guide on
cultural diversity. This book provides
insight into why health care providers do
not reach their potential in
differentiating themselves in the health
care marketplace. Should be ready by all
health care providers-a side of health
care that is all too often
forgotten."
-James
T. Yoshioka, President, MedCenters
Division
ISBN
0-7879-4041-0 $55.00
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MANAGING
DIVERSITY IN HEALTH CARE
MANUAL
Proven
Tools and Activities for Leaders and
Trainers
Jossey-Bass
Publishers (1999)
This resource provides over 40 reproducible diversity training activities, checklists and tools accompanied by detailed directioins for use in health care organizations.
ISBN
0-7879-4393-2 $100.00
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related courses offered by Gardenswartz
& Rowe |
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What It Takes
Good News from 100 of America's Top Professional and Business Women
Doubleday (1987)
This book explains and illustrates five factors at the heart of success for 100 highly achieving women and includes a test to assess yourself in these five areas.
ISBN
0-385-23820-7 $10.00 |
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Beyond Sanity and Survival
A Personal Guide to Stress Management
Revised Edition
Gardenswartz & Rowe (1980, 1986)
This personal workbook contains self-development activities to manage stress at the intrapersonal, interpersonal and organizational levels.
$10.00
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