Managerial Excellence through Diversity: Text and Cases Book

Learning to respond effectively to the increasingly diverse business environment! We all confront and respond to various forms of diversity every day. The ability to recognize and respond to diversity of all kinds is a skill needed for success in and around business organizations today. This book focuses on the challenge of how individuals and organizations can address and adapt to diversity effectively, efficiently, and productively. Although no text can raise and address every potential manifestation of diversity, this casebook provides a tool kit of perspectives and critical thinking skills that help develop the individual and organizational abilities needed to reap the benefits of diversity. It also offers a series of case examples wherein the student can begin to practice the application of these perspectives and skills. Finally, it offers an approach to self-assessment regarding one s own individual leadership motivations and readiness around the topic of diversity. The habits of critical thought and respectful openness that students learn from these readings and cases will prove useful even critical for success, not only in an increasingly diverse business environment but also in an increasingly complex and diverse world.