Managing diversity in corporate America : an exploratory analysis / Jefferson P. Marquis ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marquis, Jefferson P.

Labor and Population Program.

Series:

Occasional paper (Rand Corporation) ; OP-206.

Occasional paper ; OP-206-RC

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diversity in the workplace--United States--Management.

Diversity in the workplace.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (45 p.)

Place of Publication:

Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Managing diversity has become a primary concern of top U.S. corporations. In this paper, the authors develop a fact-based approach to modeling diversity management. They use the model to determine whether diversity-friendly corporations really do stand out from other companies by analyzing the strategies pursued by 14 large U.S. companies recognized for their diversity or human resource (HR) achievements. Finally, to understand whether best practices alone make a company diversity-friendly, they compare a number of characteristics of best diversity companies, best HR companies, and other compa

Contents:

Introduction

The diversity management literature

Does the diversity literature hold up in practice?

Are best practices enough?

Conclusion

Appendix: A. Fortune's criteria for the "best companies for minorities"

B. Diversity manager interview protocol.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 33-34).

ISBN:

0-8330-4439-7

OCLC:

476161193