Beyond Race and Gender: Unleashing the Power of Your Total Workforce by Managing Diversity

by R. Thomas

Overview

This book supplies a needed Action Plan, extensive case studies, and tough questions with answers to get readers thinking deeply about what elements are blocking the full use of the human talent available.

The ability to manage this diversity successfully has become a basic strategy for corporate survival. In this visionary work, R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr., rouses organizations to face the facts and embrace the challenges—because it is the only efficient way for America to compete and prosper.

In Beyond Race and Gender, you will find info on topics such as:

• Traditional approaches to race and gender gaps
• Getting ready for change
• Managing diversity and total quality
• An action plan for cultural change

Beyond Race and Gender offers businesses a plan for managing an increasingly diverse workforce and argues the necessity of changing the roots of corporate culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814478073
Publisher:	AMACOM
Publication date:	10/08/1992
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.13(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	17 Years

About the Author

R. ROOSEVELT THOMAS, Jr., Ph.D. (Atlanta, GA) one of America's most respected authorities on diversity issues, is CEO of R. Thomas Consulting Training, Inc. and founder of the American Institute for Managing Diversity. He is the author of Beyond Race and Gender (AMACOM 0-8144-7807-7) and Redefining Diversity (AMACOM 0-8144-0228-3). M

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"""Must reading for anyone who has a concern with her/his enterprise being competitive in the race for survival."" --Theodore Payne, Xerox

""Organizations are awakening to the fact that a diverse workforce is not a burden, but their greatest potential strength...I believe in Roosevelt's theories because I've seen them work."" --James Preston, CEO, Avon"

Editorial Reviews

"A superb book that merits our keen attention." —American Society for Training and Development

"One of the best business books of 1991." —Library Journal"

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