JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE, CULTURE AND CHANGE MANAGEMENT Madrid, Spain Diversity Assessment Tools: A Comparison Abstract: Much has been written about how to address diversity in the human resources function (recruitment, retention, professional development etc.) but less has been written about how to develop strategies to leverage diversity in other areas. This study proposes an approach to exploring diversity through the value chain and a tool to help an organization assess its strategy. The Diversity
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Chapter 2 The Genesis Bernhard hoesli and the Process of Design It is the spring of 1982;the venue,the auditorium of the School of Architectre,University of Texas at Arlington.Bernhard Hoesli is speaking to a capacity crowd;his first lecture in Texas since his departure from Austin in the summer of 1957. I have arrived late, having driven the 350miles from San Antonio to the Dallas-Fort Worth area.Though there is a substantial contingent of young architecture students for whom the lecture is
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Glass Ceiling ………………………………………………………………….15 Affirmative Action…………………………………………………………….16 Equal Employment ……………………………………………………………17 FROM VALUING DIVERSITY TO MANAGING DIVERSITY …………………...18 MANGING A DIVERSE WORKFORCE: A Multicultural Approach ………………18 DIVERSITY FACTOR (THE ISSUES)………………………………………………21 Cultural Collision ……………………………………………………………..22 Benefits ……………………………………………………………………….22 Challenges……………………………………………………………...……..24 IMPLEMENTATION OF A MORE DIVERSE WORKFORCE………
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concerned about the consequences of this backlash to our clients’ satisfaction and retention and to our revenue stream. It was evident to the leaders attending last month’s leadership meeting that the source of this problem ran deeply through the organization. The leadership team is highly diverse in ethic and national origins, language skills, background and experience. The employees reflect a similar high level of diversity. What currents are directing our projects into insensitive waters? The
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Informational Seminar Ludaisha Washington SHB 5109 Scope of Addictive Behaviors and Eating Disturbances Table of Content Page 3--------- Audience selection Page 4 -------- Drug Classification Page 5 -------- Terms Page 6 -------- Cont. terms Page 7 -------- Signs and Symptoms Page 8 -------- Ethnic and Cultural Page 9 -------- Cont. Ethnic and Cultural Page 10 ------ Cont. Ethnic
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Toronto, Ontario M5T 2C7, Canada The National Center on Family Homelessness, 181 Wells Avenue, Newton, MA 02459, USA Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, USA Abstract: Outreach and engagement are regarded by many who work in homeless programs as essential services. Outreach on the streets and in shelters is often the first point of contact for people who are not served by traditional sitebased services and is often the first step in engaging homeless people in services. While outreach
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of Working, many organizations are formalizing “Alternative Workplace” programs that combine nontraditional work practices, settings and locations.1 Almost half of the surveyed organizations have started an alternative workplace program within the past two years and a large majority within the past five years. This is 2 Many organizations are formalizing striking as these programs have been around since the early 1980s. The same study indicates that the adoption of such programs has accelerated during
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Working, many organizations are formalizing “Alternative Workplace” programs that combine nontraditional work practices, settings and locations.1 Almost half of the surveyed organizations have started an alternative workplace program within the past two years and a large majority within the past five years. This is 2 Many organizations are formalizing striking as these programs have been around since the early 1980s. The same study indicates that the adoption of such programs has accelerated
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Campbell Soup Company 1 Campbell Place Camden, NJ 08103-1701 March 23, 2011 Dear Colleagues: Mr. Edmund Carpenter; Mr. Paul Charron; Mr. Douglas Conant; Mr. Bennett Dorrance; Mr. Harvey Golub; Mr. Lawrence Karlson; Mr. Randell Larrimore; Ms. Mary Alice Malone; Ms. Sara Mathew; Ms. Denise Morrison; Mr. William Perez; Mr. Charles Perrin; Mr. A Barry Rand; Mr. Nick Schreiber; Mr. Archibold van Beuren; Mr. Les Vinney and Ms. Charlotte Weber, On behalf of The Distasio Consulting Company
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hands of employees and customers. Do companies worry that this will lead to confusion and loss of control? Not at Google, IBM, and Xerox, where collaborative communication processes are breaking down traditional corporate barriers and allowing self-organization and peer production to emerge as new organizing principles for the workplace. The Wiki Workplace At Google, collaborative interaction means a different kind of control over the way in which decisions are made. CEO Eric Schmidt says “You talk
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