The Diversity Factor: Capturing the Competitive Advantage of a Changing Workforce
Edited by Elsie Y. Cross and Margaret Blackburn White

Former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke’s 1991 Louisiana gubernatorial campaign set the stage for the Times-Picayune’s race project. The leading New Orleans newspaper appointed a project director and a team of reporters – black, white, veteran and rookie – to tackle the momentous subject of racial tension in New Orleans. They didn’t have to look very far. The team’s first meeting was “a study in dysfunction, a microcosm of American race relations.” The Times-Picayune discovered they needed to start their investigation in their own newsroom.

Real-life examples like this are what makes The Diversity Factor: Capturing the Competitive Advantage of a Changing Workforce such a powerful resource. This collection of the most-requested articles from the quarterly journal, The Diversity Factor, many of them written by the managers who lived the experience, reflect the complexity of the diversity challenges in today’s corporations and offer eloquent suggestions for dealing with this daunting issue.

The essays, helpfully arranged to provide a ready- made curriculum for a diversity change efforts, fall into six categories:

• Strategic issues
• Leadership
• Barriers
• Skills for managing diversity
• Workplace initiatives
• Resources
  

Published in 1996, 266 pages $35.00

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