Building on the Promise of Diversity: How We Can Move to the Next Level in Our Workplaces, Our Communities, and Our Society

R. Roosevelt Thomas Jr.9780814408629, 0814408621

What is the legacy of the diversity movement of the last two decades? Having increased the percentage of minorities in the workplace, we might think our work is done – but we’ve hardly started. Numbers are only part of the story in which the true challenge is to realize the full power – financial, economic, political, and societal – that genuine diversity brings.Building on the Promise of Diversity – the first major book on the subject in years – presents R. Roosevelt Thomas’s Strategic Diversity Management approach, a results-focused, five-step process for applying diversity management toward the advancement of organizational and community goals. Readers will come to understand why “diversity tension” is not only inevitable but also necessary as a catalyst for addressing key issues, and they will learn about the many ways in which they may be “diversity challenged,” even if they don’t recognize it. The result is a timely and dynamic approach to a powerful driver of both robust businesses and thriving communities.As Dr. Thomas points out, America from its founding has been an “experiment in diversity. It is overwhelmingly to our benefit to see the experiment through to its intended result, both in and outside of the workplace.

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Table of contents :
Building On The Promise Of Diversity……Page 1
C O N T E N T S……Page 10
P R E F A C E……Page 12
A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S……Page 16
P A R T O N E INTRODUCTION……Page 20
C H A P T E 1 RDIVERSITYIN SEARCH OF THE NEXT LEVEL……Page 22
P A R T T W O CONTEXT……Page 36
C H A P T E R 2 THE UNITED STATESAN EXPERIMENT IN DIVERSITY……Page 38
C H A P T E R 3 THE CIVIL RIGHTSMOVEMENTIN PURSUIT OF THE‘‘BELOVED COMMUNITY’’……Page 52
C H A P T E R 4 DIVERSITY ANDAFFIRMATIVE ACTIONPAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE……Page 66
C H A P T E R 5 CURRENT STATUS OFTHE DIVERSITY FIELDJUST PLAIN STUCK……Page 84
C H A P T E R 6 A PERSONAL ODYSSEY……Page 102
P A R T T H R E E THE CRAFT OFSTRATEGIC DIVERSITYMANAGEMENT……Page 116
C H A P T E R 7 STRATEGIC DIVERSITYMANAGEMENTUNDERGIRDING CONCEPTS……Page 118
C H A P T E R 8 STRATEGIC DIVERSITYMANAGEMENTFIVE FUNDAMENTALS……Page 136
C H A P T E R 9 STRATEGIC DIVERSITYMANAGEMENTTHE DECISION-MAKING PROCESSAT TJAX COMPANY……Page 156
C H A P T E R 10 STRATEGIC DIVERSITYMANAGEMENTFOUNDATION FOR SUCCESS……Page 170
C H A P T E R 11 GETTING STARTED……Page 182
P A R T F O U R THE JOURNEYCONTINUES……Page 188
C H A P T E R 12 BECOMING ADIVERSITY LEADER……Page 190
A P P E N D I C E S MASTERING THEBASICSA CRITICAL STEP TOWARDDIVERSITY MATURITY—YOURPERSONAL COACH……Page 198
A P P E N D I X A :A L E T T E R F R O M T H E A U T H O R……Page 200
A P P E N D I X B :R E S P O N D I N G I N S T R U C T I O N SA N D C O M M O N P E R C E P T I O NR E S P O N S E I T E M S……Page 204
A P P E N D I X C :TA L LY ING, S COR I NG, AN DI N T E R P R E T I N G S C O R E S……Page 208
A P P E N D I X D :R A T I O N A L E S A N DI N T E R P R E T A T I O N S , F I V E S D MU N D E R G I R D I N G C O N C E P T S , A N DF I V E S D M F U N D A M E N T A L S……Page 214
N O T E S……Page 228
S E L E C T E DB I B L I O G R A P H Y……Page 236
I N D E X……Page 244
A B O U T T H E A U T H O R……Page 256