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Occasional paper ; OP-206-RC |
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Occasional paper (Rand Corporation) ; OP-206.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 33-34). |
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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. |
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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 companies, using quantitative and qualitative methods. They find that firms recognized for diversity are distinguished by a core set of motives and practices that resemble those presented in the best-practices literature, but that best practices per se may not enable a company to achieve a high level of diversity. Contextual factors, such as industry affiliation and company size, may be as significant as strategic factors in influencing the extent of a company's diversity. |
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Print version record. |
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Diversity in the workplace -- United States -- Management.
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Multiculturalisme en milieu de travail -- États-Unis -- Gestion.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Workplace Culture.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Human Resources & Personnel Management.
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Diversity in the workplace -- Management
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United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
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| Added Author |
Marquis, Jefferson P.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Managing diversity in corporate America. Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2007 9780833043054 0833043056 (DLC) 2007048227 (OCoLC)182573605 |
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9780833044396 (electronic bk.) |
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0833044397 (electronic bk.) |
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9786611430214 |
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6611430210 |
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0833043056 |
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9780833043054 |
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