Workplace diversity is one of the most important issues in contemporary organizational development. This book introduces readers to the challenges and opportunities associated with diversity management, demonstrating how organizational culture can be leveraged to create inclusive environments that embrace diversity’s positive impacts.
This edited, counseling-specific text provides graduate students with needed information on human growth and development. It provides a brief overview of developmental theories, all of which are a review to students from their undergraduate work. At its heart, the book, based on Relational-Cultural theory, addresses various topics and critical contexts as they relate to human growth and development and stresses relational development, critical thinking and the central theme of how shame plays into development.
Examines systemic issues contributing to inequities in early childhood, with ways faculty, teachers, administrators, and policymakers can work to disrupt them.
1. Africa: continuity and change 2. Africa's peoples 3. African environments 4. Rural Africa 5. Urban Africa 6. Health 7. Conflict and post-conflict Africa 8. African Economies 9. Developing Africa 10. What future for Africa?
For introductory courses in world regional and regional geography. The sights, sounds, and tastes of world regions Diversity Amid Globalization uses interactive learning tools to take readers on a journey through the diverse regions of the world. The 7th Edition supports the most comprehensive world regional program, helping individuals explore the various sights, sounds, and tastes of different parts of the world. With deeper mobile integration, web maps, video tours, and geoscience animations enhance readers' virtual, active learning experience. Links and online supplements provide insight into world regional geography, including explorations of space, language, music, and cooking traditions. Focusing on globalization, the text's arresting visual layout and updated content combine to give readers an accurate portrayal of the world's evolving regional landscapes. Also available with Mastering Geography Mastering(tm) Geography is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment product proven to improve results by helping students quickly master concepts. Students benefit from self-paced coaching activities that feature personalized wrong-answer feedback and hints that emulate the office-hour experience and help keep students on track. With a wide range of interactive, engaging, and assignable activities, students are encouraged to actively learn and retain tough course concepts. Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; Mastering Geography does not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with Mastering Geography, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and Mastering Geography, search for: 0134667093 / 9780134667096 Diversity Amid Globalization: World Regions, Environment, Development Plus Mastering Geography -- Access Card Package Package consists of: 0134642082 / 9780134642086 Modified Mastering Geography with Pearson eText -- ValuePack Access Card -- Diversity Amid Globalization: World Regions, Environment, Development 0134539427 / 9780134539423 Diversity Amid Globalization: World Regions, Environment, Development
Todays workforce represents individuals of various backgrounds and experiences. The influence of such individuals is becoming an important component in the workplace and researchers continue to explore the challenges of understanding the connection between employee profiles and the overall success of a company. Impact of Diversity on Organization and Career Development brings together a reflective discussion on the previous approaches and strategies of companies in relation to the paradigm shift in workplace equity of todays workforce. By examining both old and new strategies, the research included in this publication will present a unique approach for future company enhancement and employee success. This publication is an essential reference source for researchers, practitioners, managers, and students interested in the effects of multicultural representation on both a company and its employees through professional growth and advancement.
Bringing together a wide range of empirical studies from around the world (Sweden, Norway, Austria, Germany, France, UK, Israel, Russia, China, Taiwan, Argentina, Canada), framed in related contemporary theoretical frameworks, this book examines the question of the significance of proximate vs. more distant relationships for economic agents' performance and local economic development. While this question has been the subject of intense debates in recent years, it is obvious that proximity and distance are not explanatory factors as such. The book argues for the need to understand the aims of economic relationships, the nature of the regional environment in which they originate, and the scale at which they operate. The book suggests that the notions of diversity, innovativeness, maturity and multiple scales should be incorporated into the debates on the significance of proximity for economic performance.
The Great Depression hit Americans hard, but none harder than African Americans and the working poor. This brief, engaging book covers the range of African Americans' experiences during the 1930s. Cheryl Lynn Greenberg explores employment issues, the New Deal's effect on African Americans, family and community changes, and how the coming of war affected the population. The book straddles the particular--with examinations of specific communities and experiences--and the general--with explorations of the broader effects of racism, discrimination, family, class, and political organizing.