Managing Diversity: Toward a Globally Inclusive Workplace

Needed this textbook for college, and this was a good price.

Dr. Mor-Barak’s insightful book has provided me with new perspectives on organizations and how they work. As an evaluator of health and human services organizations, which includes assessments of lines of communication, collaboration across departments, transparency and decision-making processes, I am able to draw upon Dr. Mor-Barak’s models and cross cultural examples to inform my evaluation designs and methods. We are often called upon to assess activities within organizations that are ethnically and culturally diverse, and at other times, organizations that compositionally similar in terms of culture, race and ethnicity with a few staff that do not conform. In both situations, Mor-Barak’s book has informed my approach and enriched the quality of our evaluation services.

I am a doctoral student in social work studying the relationship between inclusive leadership and organizational success in community-based healthcare agencies. Managing Diversity has introduced me to several creative strategies for positively impacting health organizations, which is my study focus. It is fascinating to see the parallels between large global organizations and community-based health centers with regard to comparable leadership demands and scalable strategies that can be used to assess inclusion among members of the board of directors and management teams. I am impressed by the current research, data and examples that Dr. Mor Barak has chosen as in many ways they are universal examples that apply the corporate world as well as community-based organizations.

As a young professional entering a career in management, this book delivered amazing insights to the barriers faced when creating an inclusive workplace – a value that I and others within organizations endorse. While the challenges are many and complex, the possible solutions offered strongly resonated with me and I believe are attainable. Furthermore, some of the examples seemed to be drawn from my personal experience, and I know that if I had read the book sooner, I would have had new strategies for addressing these not-so-uncommon problems. And, as a person of color, Mor Barak’s book also gives me new tools to mitigate inclusiveness challenges for myself and others.

I found this text difficult to follow. It was for a class I was long forward to but the book was dry.

This is one of the best text books I have ever purchased. I am going to inquire about owning also. It is really useful and very imformative!

Employee cohesion and high morale in the workplace are generally accepted, along with quality products and services, as contributing to a company's healthy bottom line. To be successful in today's complex multinational and multicultural as well as domestic work environments, however, businesses must concurrently manage new thresholds of employee, supplier and customer diversity at several levels all at once.A welcome addition to the emerging dialogue on diversity management is Michàlle Mor Barak's inclusive workplace model. In Managing Diversity: Toward a Globally Inclusive Workplace, she encourages work organizations to adopt a new perspective on diversity. Building on its expanding importance to the workplace amid new socio-demographic and legislative trends, and the role of inclusive leadership, Managing Diversity comprehensively addresses the corporate role for inclusiveness as part of workforce management as well as at community, state and federal, and international levels.Of note is the practical relevance threaded throughout the book, such as the important distinction that Mor Barak makes between visible (i.e., observable differences) and invisible diversity (such not readily apparent attributes as religion, education, tenure or world view). While discrimination toward either kind is unacceptable, the nature of invisible diversity presents human resource managers the added challenge of a consideration that is difficult to monitor.A portion of Managing Diversity delves into the complex web of skills, knowledge, and values that combine to shape the inclusive workplace. From an overview of diversity-related employment legislation around the world, to theoretical perspectives on diversity and its meaning in different cultural contexts, to cross-cultural communications, the book is filled with colorful, well-researched examples. The inclusive workplace model itself, however, is applicable to work organizations large and small, transcending specific industries or where they are headquartered in the world.

Served its purpose for my class however, I couldn't seem to view the tables though so that was a bit annoying. I got the same feedback from someone else in my class who ordered the electronic version.