Understanding and Managing Diversity: Readings, Cases, and Exercises (2nd Edition)

This supplementary reader for undergraduate courses presents essays on the management of diversity in the workplace from academics in a variety of fields. The volume features a number of cases for discussion, such as the Tailhook incident and the class action racial employment discrimination suit recently brought against Cracker Barrel Restaurants. A section of 22 individual and group exercises on diversity completes the volume. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Content Highlights

• Classic diversity articles by well-known authors such as Peggy McIntosh, Deborah Tannen, William Sowell, Horace Miner, and Taylor Cox.
• Original material written by a diversity of experienced faculty, consultants, and trainers that reflect their wealth of experience in their specialty areas.
• Extensive coverage of the range of diversity theories and models that integrates research from the social sciences and business.
• Difficult to find, original, and diversified material on religion, Native Americans, nonprofit organizations, Generation X, employment equity in Canada, personality disorders under the ADA law, social class, and innovative models for employing older workers, that fill many gaps in courses related to diversity.