"How can organizations and individuals manage intercultural challenges and benefit from diversity? Intercultural Management is about managing across cultures: the difficulties and opportunities it brings and the competencies needed to handle the situations and create solutions. …
"Drawing on data from a Europe wide project, together with existing data on equality and diversity initiatives, this book explores the work of trade unions in supporting equality and anti-discrimination policies across Europe and, in particular, the processes and collaborations …
"The economic crisis that began in 2008 has underscored the impact not only of embedded and assumed ways of managing the economy, but also that present circumstances are the product of a long period of experimentation and bounded diversity; it is understanding the nature of both…
"This book documents the rise in youth creativity, entrepreneurship, and collective strategies to address systemic barriers and discrimination in the creative industries and create an expanded, more diverse, inclusive, equitable, and caring field. Although the difficulties of en…
Machine generated contents note: Guided tour; Preface; 1. Management across cultures: an introduction; 2. Global managers: challenges and responsibilities; 3. Cultural environments; 4. Organizational environments; 5. Communicating across cultures; 6. Leading global organizations…
About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword from larry hirst cbe -- Introduction -- Starting out -- What is "starting out"? -- Assessing your current position -- Creating the case for change -- Building a strategic plan -- Your role as a change agent -- Who is there to hel…
The nature of society is rapidly changing. Traditional social, cultural, and geographic boundaries are being replaced with increasingly complex representations of identity. We are required to confront new ways of partitioning our social worlds, and this in turn creates new quest…
Promoting a scholarly understanding of the psychology of social and cultural diversity in the early stages of 21st century, this volume encourages an in-depth appreciation of the value in diversity while directly addressing social intervention and policy implications. Offers, fo…
"With the rapidly changing national demographic, the increasing global competition, and the demand for new talent, the need for diversity in the civil engineering profession has become increasingly important. Diversity by Design: Guide to Fostering Diversity in the Civil Enginee…