Monthly Archive for November, 2010

Latest Diversity Journal papers

Published on November 29, 2010 in Journal. 1 Comment

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The latest issue of The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations includes:

Exclusion and Education of Disadvantaged Young People: The Case of Turkish Disadvantaged Young People by Pinar Enneli and Ayse Kaya.
An Integrative Approach to Developing an Intercultural Awareness Strategy in a Multicultural University by Helen E. Higson and Kai Liu.
Diversity in the Irish Workplace – Lesbian Women’s Experience as Nurses by Mel Duffy.
A Glass Half Full or Half Empty? A Comparison of Diversity Statements among Russell Group v. US Research Universities by Kathleen K. OMara and Elizabeth Morrish.
Engaging with Diversity to Build Understanding: Promoting Interactions to Enhance Learning by Jeannette Walsh and Ruth Gresham.
Competencies for Conversation: Assessment in Inclusive Education by Heather Isabel Symonds.
Challenges in Addressing Cultural Diversity: Approaches in Sydney Schools by Nina Burridge and Andrew Chodkiewicz.

Making the Difference: The Critical Success Factors for Diversity Management

Published on November 25, 2010 in Book and Newsletter. 0 Comments

Making the Difference: The Critical Success Factors for Diversity Management by Grethe Van Geffen is now available from the On Diversity imprint.

Once upon a time organisations could work with employees who all looked like Mister Average. Their life style, values, expectations and working ways were predictable; it was easy to recruit and reward them. Managers that were able to manage Mister Average, were able to perform 90% of their business timely and effectively. However, Mister Average doesn’t exist any more. A great diversity of employees have made their entrance into the organisations of the 21st century.

Organisations find it difficult to make the change from ‘general’ management to diversity management. Where to start and what actions will show the best effect? The secret of success lies not in a scattered approach but in structural policies.

This book presents the methods and tools to work on structural policies, based on the ten critical success factors of diversity management. Readers will gain the most recent insights and find the way to set priorities and seize the opportunities that diversity offers – when it is managed well!

Diversity Journal: Recently Published

Published on November 22, 2010 in Journal. 0 Comments

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The latest issue of The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations includes:

Ethnic Clusters and the Urban Planning System: The Japanese Experience by Shahed Khan and Jake Schapper.
Gender, Traditionalism and Democratic Diversity on Taiwan by Chin Hu.
Promoting Equality and Learning in the Workplace by Georgina Andrews, Michelle Jane Nardone and Steve Gough.
The Conscious Gaze: Visuality as Practice in the Post-modern World by Mischa Davison and Anahit Falihi.
Migrant Workers: Motives for Migration, Contingency of Choice and Willingness to Remain in the Host Country by Nonna Kushnirovich.
Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Legal Discourse: Emotion Narratives in Battered Women’s Homicide Cases by Michelle VanNatta.
Positive Action Measures Across Different Equality Grounds, Organisations and Sectors in European and Non-european Countries by Uduak Archibong, Andy Scally, Jite Eferakorho, Aliya Darr, Karl Atkin, Carol Baxter, Mark R. D. Johnson, Mark Bell, Lisa Waddington, Katrin Wladasch, Tara Bedard, Oluyinka Adejumo, Phyllis Sharps and Pat Bradshaw.
Experiences of Using Public Space: A Sudanese Case Study in Western Australia by Pendo Mwaiteleke and Antonio Buti.

Which MBA?

Published on November 20, 2010 in News and Newsletter. 0 Comments

From The Economist

Women have outnumbered men on college campuses around the world for the past five years, according to Unesco’s latest Global Education Digest. In Europe and North America, there are a third more women than men enrolled in university, and in a number of countries, such as Hungary and Uruguay, there are at least two female graduates for every male. Women are gaining in Master’s degree programmes, too. In American medical schools, for instance, they represent half of all students; in law school it is 47%.

And yet they remain a distinct minority at business schools. Women represent under a third of students enrolled in the schools covered in The Economist’s ranking of full-time MBA programmes, a figure that has barely changed since our first ranking in 2002 (see chart).

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I Could Have Joined the Tea Party

Published on November 17, 2010 in News and Newsletter. 0 Comments

From Justin E. H. Smith, in 3 Quarks Daily

Among the many distortions arising from the conceptualization of the human social world in terms of ‘race’ is the false belief this instills among lower status, historically disadvantaged ‘white’ people that they have something innate in common with all other ‘white’ people, and thus that their current disadvantage is the result of some exceptional injustice. This in contrast with the disadvantage of their non-white neighbors, which is, the reasoning goes, just in the nature of things. In the United States, ethnic difference among whites has been bleached out in the name of egalitarianism, and the only differences that are allowed to remain are the ones that are thought to be so pronounced in the phenotypes of ‘non-white’ groups that assimilation is ruled out on supposedly biological grounds. This seems a natural way of doing things for most Americans, while in fact it is anything but.

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Diversity Journal, Volume 10, Number 3 now available

Published on November 17, 2010 in Journal and Newsletter. 0 Comments

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The third issue of Volume 10 of The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations has been published.

Volume 10, Number 3 contains:

An Emotional Conceptualization of People and Diversity: Integrating Emotional Intelligence in Human and International Relations for Social Justice by James Smith.
The Challenges Involved in Directing a Minority Play in a Theatre Department Composed of Predominantly Eurocentric Students: A Case Study by Judith Babnich.
Psycho-Educational Guidelines for the Use of Music in a Group Anger Management Programme for Children in Residential Care by Deirdré Krüger and Belinda de Villiers.
Movement and Stasis: The Travellers of Trojan Eddie (1996) by Dana Och.
A Descriptive Analysis of Risk and Resiliency within a Cohort of Preservice Teachers by Warnie James Richardson, Alicia Paolucci and Connor Richardson.
Countering Privilege: A Pedagogy for Undermining Classism by Twila Yates Papay.
Virtual Ethnicity: Representation and Boundary Formation on the Internet by Sandra Lopez-Rocha.

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Unfriendly Skies? Blind Passengers Sue United

Published on November 12, 2010 in News and Newsletter. 0 Comments

By Amy Standen, in NPR

This week, a group of blind air travelers filed suit against United Airlines claiming that the airline’s digital kiosks are inaccessible to blind people.

It’s not a problem that most travelers think about: How would they get through an airport without their eyesight? But something as simple as finding out your flight’s gate can be a hassle.

Mike May, who lives in Davis, Calif., says he has to ask someone to look for flight information on the big digital boards. And checking in using the now-ubiquitous electronic kiosks is an even bigger hassle, at least at many airlines.

Latest Diversity Journal papers

Published on November 9, 2010 in Journal. 0 Comments

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The latest issue of The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations includes:

Design Collaboration as a Tool for Developing Diversity in the Work Place p by Rees Shad.
Exploring FSTprinciples in Community Development: The ‘Carrot on a Stick’ Early Health Intervention Programme by Anne Stephens, Christine King and Christine Jacobson.
The Marginalization of Women with HIV and AIDS by Carla Abreu-Ellis and Jason Brent Ellis.
Learning Style Preferences across Disciplines by Patrícia Albergaria Almeida and Rita Mendes.
Organisation Team Sport Interventions to Overcome Diversity Constraints in the Workplace by Yvonne Joubert and Hannes de Beer.
Teacher Training to Meet the Needs of an Increasingly Diverse Midwestern USA Student Population by Alida J Droppert.
Navigating Our Way to Multiple Conceptualizations of Literacies by Terry A. Campbell and Michelann Parr.
Sexual Orientation Topics in Business Education in Turkey by Gulcimen Yurtsever and Hilal Humeyra Erdogan.

A Perfect Bomb

Published on November 8, 2010 in News and Newsletter. 0 Comments

By Nick Holdstock

Urumqi is the capital of Xinjiang, China’s largest province, about the size of Germany, France, and Italy combined. The region has a long history of unrest between Uighurs (Turkic-speaking Muslims who account for about half of the region’s 23 million people) and Han Chinese (the ethnic majority in China). The most recent confrontation was on July 5, 2009, when three-hundred Uighur students gathered in the center of Urumqi to protest the killings of Uighur migrant workers in Guangdong province. By late afternoon, their numbers had swelled to several thousand; by evening they had become violent.