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Title

The diversity machine : the drive to change the "white male workplace" / Frederick R. Lynch ; with a new preface by the author.

Author

Lynch, Frederick R.

Publication

New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2002.

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Description

xlvii, 416 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Traces the development of workforce diversity programmes from the affirmative action programmes of the 1970s to the diversity management programmes of the 1990s. Reviews the development of diversity theories and practices and examines the implementation of different strategies through organizational case studies. Offers an overall assessment and forecast for diversity management.

Subject

• Diversity in the workplace > United States

Note

• Originally published: New York : Free Press, c1997.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-402) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

From "American Dilemma" to affirmative action and the diversity pioneers -- The evangelist and the business professor: the first diversity blueprints ; Cross-cultural consultant profile I: Lillian Roybal Rose -- Demography is destiny: the diversity machine takes off ; Cross-cultural consultant profile II: Sondra Thiederman -- Recession, rebellion, riot: the diversity machine at bay ; Cross-cultural consultant profile III: Tom Kochman and associates -- Frustration and stall: confronting awkward cultural and political differences -- Strong new allies, weak policy proof: Griggs and Thomas reformulate diversity -- Defensive diversity training: the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department -- From diversity dreams to budget nightmares: the California community colleges system -- Multicultural vision meets multiversity realities: the University of Michigan -- The diversity machine: transformed, transforming, and waiting.

ISBN

0765807319 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

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OCLC

• 44777324
• SCSB-10952277

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library