Diversity : new realities in a changing world /

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Imprint:Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Description:xxiii, 380 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6284148
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Other authors / contributors:April, Kurt.
Shockley, Marylou L. (Marylou Lorraine), 1943-
California State University, Monterey Bay.
University of Cape Town. Graduate School of Business.
Ashridge Centre for Business and Society.
ISBN:0230001335 (cloth)
9780230001336 (cloth)
Notes:"California State University, Monterey Bay; UCT Graduate School of Business; Ashridge."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • Notes on the Editors
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction: A Diverse Future
  • Part 1. Ways of Looking at Reality
  • Editors' Note: Ways of Looking at Reality
  • 1. Diversity - A Diamond in the Rough
  • 2. Restore Talent and Leadership
  • 3. Globalisation: A Personal View
  • Part 2. Expanding Reality
  • Editors' Note: Expanding Reality
  • 4. Managing Diversity: The United States Experience
  • 5. Diversity: Ideas to Create Value in the Workplace
  • 6. New Frontiers for Diversity and Inclusion
  • 7. Applying Burlesque Rhetoric to Create Social Change
  • Part 3. Embedding Reality
  • Editors' Note: Embedding Reality
  • 8. Complexity Theory and the Electricity of Life: A Chinese Perspective
  • 9. Chinese Culture: Its Impact on Knowledge Sharing
  • 10. Geo-Political Diversity
  • 11. American Legal System Diversity: Stare Decisis in a Changing World
  • 12. Diversity and Corporate Governance
  • Part 4. Creating Reality
  • Editors' Note: Creating Reality
  • 13. Reflections on Conscious Communication: A Critical Process for Transitional Societies?
  • 14. Diversity - Creativity - Leadership: A Journey from Ancient Greece to Modern Society
  • 15. Diversity: Not All Are Believers
  • Part 5. Preparing for New Realities
  • Editors' Note: Preparing for New Realities
  • 16. Leadership in Question: Talking Diversity, Walking Homogeneity in the Dutch Police Force
  • 17. Responsible Leadership Ethics
  • 18. Spirit of African Leadership: A Comparative African Perspective
  • Part 6. Realizing New Realities
  • Editors' Note: Realizing New Realities
  • 19. National Institutions and the Fate of Diversity: What has Become of Nordic Corporatism?
  • 20. Soft Power in a World of Hard Power: Leadership as a Way of Being
  • 21. An American in Guangzhou
  • Part 7. Conclusion
  • Conclusion: Consequences of New Realities
  • Index