Opportunities and Challenges of Workplace Diversity: Theory, Cases, and Exercises - Softcover

Canas, Kathryn A.; Sondak, Harris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131343068 ISBN 13: 9780131343061

Publisher: Pearson College Div, 2007

Synopsis

For courses in Diversity, Organizational Behavior, and Human Resource Management

 

Diversity and the Workplace teaches students to uncover and understand the complexities of managing diversity through a unique dialogue of opportunity.

 

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Kathryn A. Caņas is a member of the Management Department in the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah.  Her teaching currently includes courses on managing diversity, business communication, and pedagogical theories and practices on both undergraduate and graduate levels.  Her teaching has included courses on rhetorical criticism and theory, public speaking and persuasion, interpersonal communication and coaching, written communication, gender and communication, and writing for publication.  She has presented a number of papers at national and regional conferences and recently published the essay, “Demonizing Democracy: The Strange Career of Lani Guinier” in New Approaches to Rhetoric.  Her professional association memberships include: Management Communication Association and the Association for Business Communication. 

 

Dr. Caņas received her B.A. in English and Communication from Boston College, her M.A. in Speech Communication from Indiana University, and her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Utah.  For more information, please visit her Web site at www.business.utah.edu/~mgtkc/.  

 

Email: mgtkc@business.utah.edu

Phone: 801.581.4739

 

 

Harris Sondak is a member of the Management Department in the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah.  His teaching includes courses on groups, negotiations, creating and maintaining business relationships, managing conflict in organizations, competitive strategy, managing diversity, organizational behavior, consulting, and business ethics and leadership. He has taught these subjects to executives, Ph.D. candidates, MBA students, and undergraduates from around the world.  Dr. Sondak’s research investigates the psychology of allocation decisions, negotiation, group process and decisions, and procedural justice and ethics.  His research has been published in a number of leading academic journals.  Dr. Sondak has served as a reviewer, a member of the editorial board, and as the associate editor for scholarly publications.

 

Dr. Sondak received his B.A. in philosophy from the University of Colorado and his M.S. and Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Northwestern University.  He was a member of the faculty of the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and has been a visiting faculty member the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland, the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, and the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India.  For more information, please visit his Web site at www.business.utah.edu/~mgths/.

 

Email: sondak@business.utah.edu

Phone: 801.581.3749  

 

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson College Div
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0131343068
• ISBN 13: 9780131343061
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 266