Managing diversity in corporate America an exploratory analysis

Managing diversity has become a primary concern of top U.S. corporations. In this paper, the authors develop a fact-based approach to modeling diversity management. They use the model to determine whether diversity-friendly corporations really do stand out from other companies by analyzing the strat...

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Corporate Author: Labor and Population Program (-)
Other Authors: Marquis, Jefferson P. (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND 2008.
Series:Occasional paper (Rand Corporation) ; OP-206.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009426458906719
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Summary:Managing diversity has become a primary concern of top U.S. corporations. In this paper, the authors develop a fact-based approach to modeling diversity management. They use the model to determine whether diversity-friendly corporations really do stand out from other companies by analyzing the strategies pursued by 14 large U.S. companies recognized for their diversity or human resource (HR) achievements. Finally, to understand whether best practices alone make a company diversity-friendly, they compare a number of characteristics of best diversity companies, best HR companies, and other compa
Item Description:Description based upon print version of record.
Physical Description:1 online resource (45 p.)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 33-34).
ISBN:9780833044396