Trailblazers : how top business leaders are accelerating results through inclusion and diversity /

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Author / Creator:Anderson, Redia.
Imprint:Hoboken, NJ : Wiley ; Chichester : John Wiley [distributor], 2010.
Description:1 online resource (xxvi, 229 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13599440
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Other authors / contributors:Billings-Harris, Lenora, 1950-
ISBN:0470881089
9780470881088
9780470881095
0470881097
9780470881101
0470881100
1282773399
9781282773394
9786612773396
6612773391
9780470593479
0470593474
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
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Summary:"To reap the full benefits of diversity and inclusion, today's forward thinking companies look past "diversity" training towards a more comprehensive, holistic business approach. These leaders incorporate diversity and inclusion into every aspect of business culture, employee engagement, talent management and market penetration. Trailblazers reveals the practices, metrics and research, as well as the anecdotal evidence, for building and sustaining workplace cultures that make strategic diversity and inclusion a business necessity. Focusing on concrete actions you can implement immediately, this insider guide profiles the best practices award-winning companies have used on a sustained basis to transform their organizations."--Resource description page.
Other form:Print version: Anderson, Redia. Trail blazers. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, ©2010 9780470593479
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Summary:Make diversity your competitive advantage <p>To reap the full benefits of diversity and inclusion, today's forward thinking companies look past "diversity" training towards a more comprehensive, holistic business approach. These leaders incorporate diversity and inclusion into every aspect of business culture, employee engagement, talent management and market penetration.</p> <p> Trailblazers reveals the practices, metrics and research, as well as the anecdotal evidence, for building and sustaining workplace cultures that make strategic diversity and inclusion a business necessity. Focusing on concrete actions you can implement immediately, this insider guide profiles the best practices award-winning companies have used on a sustained basis to transform their organizations.</p> Captures insights and best practices from the most effective Chief Diversity Officers, several of which are determined by the Diversity Inc Top 50 Companies for Diversity Companies profiled include IBM, Dell, Verizon, Merck and Co, Sodexo, Verizon, Andrews Kurth, The Coca-Cola Company, American Airlines, Citi, Ford, Shell and Pitney Bowes Covers everything from how to use employee resource groups to help target consumers and forge tighter client relationships; from talent optimization, leadership development and retention, to increasing middle management engagement and the skill-sets required for effective Chief Diversity Officers as true business partners and more Trailblazers gives you an in-depth view from the inside out of which practical solutions make diversity and inclusion efforts a systemic and winning way of doing business for today's top-performing companies.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxvi, 229 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0470881089
9780470881088
9780470881095
0470881097
9780470881101
0470881100
1282773399
9781282773394
9786612773396
6612773391
9780470593479
0470593474