Building Successful Multicultural Organizations
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Believing that organizations must be multicultural to be successful in the global marketplace, Fine explains the potential problems of a workforce of diverse cultures and gives organizations a framework to address these problems. She focuses on race, ethnicity, and gender, and clearly describes many of those cultural differences and their effect on work productivity. The author is sensitive to intra-group differences, and to the danger of reinforcing stereotypes. Her goal is not to "manage diversity" so that members of "other" cultures are taught to conform to the dominant one in the organization. Instead, it is to create "transformed" organizations--those that utilize the strengths of all workers, value all cultural perspectives, and empower all members to participate in all decisions. This is not a manual with specific exercises for transforming organizations. Instead, it provides a readable summary of demographics, different cultural norms, and management philosophy and processes for achieving change.”–
“In this book, Marlene Fine reviews the changing demographies of the North American workforce and describes current research regarding gender, race, and cultural differences. She also describes how these differences can result in dysfunctional interactions in the workplace... excellent background information for the personnal manager, the EAP professional and the corporate trainer assigned the task of implementing a program on cultural diversity.”–
Book Description
With an emphasis on building success in today's multicultural workplace, Fine describes the truly multicultural organization, one that values the cultural differences among its employees and knows how to create policies and practices that encourage the full productivity of all employees. Fine maintains that just to remain competitive as the U.S. workforce becomes culturally diverse, organizations must not only recognize the inherent multiculturalism within their walls, but also actively transform themselves into such organizations. Her book thus explains how cultural differences affect workplace behavior and provides ways for management to work with them, not against them. A practical, challenging, research-based discussion for human resource professionals and management in public and private organizations.
Building Successful Multicultural Organizations
Building Successful Multicultural Organizations,Marlene G. Fine,Quorum Books,0899306810,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,Human Resources & Personnel Management,Multiculturalism,Organization Development,Organizational effectiveness,Personnel management,Business & Economics / Human Resources & Personnel Management
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