Cultural Diversity in Organizations [electronic resource] : Theory, Research and Practice

--Cultural Diversity in Organizations provides the most comprehensive base of knowledge yet assembled on the topic of cultural diversity. It captures the enormous complexity of the topic by examining diversity on three levels of analysis-individual, group, and organizational and addressing diversity from multiple perspectives-theory, research, and practice. Winner of the 1994 George R. Terry Book Award given by the National Academy of Management to "the book judged to have made the most outstanding contribution to the advancement of management knowle Winner of the 1994 George R. Terry Book Award given by the National Academy of Management to "the book judged to have made the most outstanding contribution to the advancement of management knowledge." "In this book, I have assembled learnings from ten years of teaching, research, and consulting related to cultural diversity in organizations," writes Taylor Cox. "My objective is to provide a comprehensive text that would be useful as an aid for teaching, organization development, and scholarship." The result is a major advance in our understanding of cultural diversity and its effects on organizational behavior and performance. This o provides the most comprehensive base of knowledge yet assembled on the topic; o organizes the material around a powerful new conceptual model that frames the issue in a systematic way; o captures the enormous complexity of the topic by examining diversity on three levels of analysis-individual, group, and organizational-and by addressing diversity from multiple perspectives-theory, research, and practice. Based on ten years of teaching, research, and consulting, Cultural Diversity in Organizations offers a systematic conceptual framework for understanding diversity and its effects on organizational behavior and performance. Taylor H. Cox, Jr. is an associate professor in the Organization Behavior and Human Resource Management Department of the University of Michigan Business School, where he teaches courses on organizational consulting and managing diversity. He is also founder of Taylor Cox and Associates Inc., a research and consulting firm Several major workforce-related trends highlight the magnitude of cultural diversity that characterizes the workforces of organizations in the 1990s.