(wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/job.724 Diversity and organizational innovation: The role of employee involvement YANG YANG1* AND ALISON M. KONRAD2 Management Department, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Department of Organizational Behavior, Richard Ivey School of Business, U. of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada 2 1 Summary This study examined the interactive effects of workplace diversity and employee involvement on organizational
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Human Resources Fundamentals • Administrative HR - Suppose you were starting a brand new organization. You probably wouldn't have an HR Department because your organization is just getting underway. Nevertheless, as you begin to grow, you and the managers you hire will need to be concerned about five broad areas that involve people, staffing, retention, development, adjustment and managing change. Together, these five broad areas constitute human resource management or the HRM system, and much
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CHAPTER 3 Group Member Diversity CHAPTER OUTLINE Heterogeneous Groups Personality Dimensions Personality Theory Implications of Personality Dimensions Cultural Dimensions Individualism–Collectivism Power Distance Uncertainty Avoidance Masculine–Feminine High Context–Low Context Monochronic Time–Polychronic Time Barriers to Cultural Understanding Gender Dimensions Generational Dimensions Balanced Diversity GroupWork: Personality Preferences GroupAssessment: Identifying Cultural Dialectics ISBN:
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------------------------------------------------- Informal organization The informal organization is the interlocking social structure that governs how people work together in practice. It is the aggregate of, norms, personal and professional connections through which work gets done and relationships are built among people who share a common organizational affiliation or cluster of affiliations. It consists of a dynamic set of personal relationships, social networks, communities of common interest
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is contained in “A SCANS Report for America 2000,” Executive Summary, furnished separately. II. LEARNING OUTCOMES A. Upon successful completion of this course, Human Relations, the student will be able to: 1. Evaluate human relations including diversity, attitudes, self-esteem, and interpersonal skills to promote career success. 2. Identify and evaluate the causes and effects of stress in the workplace. 3. Develop individual and group communication, listening, and decision-making skills. Analyze
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Recruiting in Labor Markets Case: Who Says the Young are Good Only at Facebook? Question 1: How different are today’s Gen Y employees from others ( Gen X, Baby Boomers, etc.) in terms of their mindset or perspective about work, life, career, and the world? Be specific about how you define Gen Y, Gen X, Baby Boomers, etc. Question 2: In term of recruitment practices, what adjustments or adaptations should HR managers make to enhance the effectiveness of their recruitment efforts? 1.0 Introduction
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relationship between the kind of marketing culture a service firm has and its degree of marketing effectiveness. Even when the possible effects of firm size and geographical scope are removed, the relationship between culture and effectiveness remains significant. In other words, the number of employees working in a particular service establishment (e.g. five or 500) and the geographical scope of the firm (e.g. local or global) do not significantly moderate the impact culture has on
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the potential causes of the success of the West. Some of the major themes described in the readings dealt with institutions, adaptability, rules (formal as well as informal), gradualness of the economic growth, freedom, autonomy, experimentation, diversity and innovation and competition. In this essay, I will elaborate more on these areas, providing an explanation of how they were an influential force in achieving desirable outcomes. North suggests that understanding the historical evolution of economies
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Development across the Generations How Learning Really Takes Place o 4 Ways to Maximize Learning Effectiveness o Integrating Flexible Technology and Learning Tools Employee Development Redefined o Activities Contributing to Learning Effectiveness o Employee Development Overhaul Level the Playing Field by Building Professional Competence o How to Help Employees Match Your Organization’s Culture o Business, Personal and Strategic Competencies Customize Performance Management o Meet the Needs of a Diverse
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significance as a national policy of accommodating migrants from diverse cultural backgrounds. Multiculturalism is more significant because of the larger claims it made about the actual or preferred character of the Australian people and national culture. These embellishments were promoted by a relatively small coterie of elites, as Mark Lopez has painstakingly documented,1 and became standard formulations used in official accounts of Australian national identity and citizenship. While the sting has
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