Building a House for Diversity: A Fable About a Giraffe & an Elephant Offers New Strategies for Today's Workforce
Автор:R. Roosevelt Thomas, Marjorie I. Woodruff, R. Roosevelt, Jr. Thomas Год: [не указано] Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: [не указано] ISBN: 0814404634 What could an elephant and a giraffe teach people about working together? Some very important lessons, it seems, about the complex--and critically important--issues of dealing with diversity in the workforce. Building a House for Diversity begins with a short fable about how a friendship between the two animals is threatened when the house built for a tall, skinny giraffe cannot accommodate his invited guest, a broad, bulky elephant. Using this story as a vivid metaphor for the difficult issues inherent in diversity, the book goes on to demonstrate how managing diversity can be seen as a set of skills that anyone can learn--and use. In a way that makes diversity management "up close and personal," Building a House for Diversity offers compelling, real-life stories of individual experiences at work. It includes: * the perspective of both "insiders" (usually white males) and "outsiders" (usually minorities or women) * insightful commentary illuminating what these...