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Summary
Summary
Pfeiffer's Classic Activities for Diversity Training provides a wide range of approaches -- activities, exercises, and models -- to help understand and leverage a diverse workforce. This essential resource offers a ?valuing? approach that puts the emphasis on reframing diversity in the workplace as an opportunity to improve organizational performance. A compilation of material carefully chosen from three decades of the Pfeiffer Annuals and Handbooks, Pfeiffer's Classic Activities for Diversity Training is a treasure chest of sound theory and practical tools that can be put to use immediately whether you′re a trainer or a consultant.
This mix of articles, activities, and instruments -- including questionnaires and surveys -- supports training on such critical topics as managing diversity, preventing sexual harassment, understanding generational differences, organizational value conflicts, disability awareness, intercultural negotiation, relationship building, the effects of culture on behavior and work style, understanding employee motivation, and much more.
Order your copy today and get a time-tested collection of working tools for understanding and maximizing the potential of workplace diversity.
Author Notes
Jack Gordon served for fifteen years (1985-2000) as chief editor of Training Magazine, North America′s leading monthly covering workplace training and development. His articles and columns on training subjects have appeared in publications including The Wall Street Journal, San Diego Chronicle, and Minneapolis Star Tribune. He is the editor of six titles in the Pfeiffer Classic Activities Series.
Table of Contents
| How to Use This Resource |
| Introduction |
| Part 1 Presentation and Discussion Resources |
| 1 Danger--Diversity Training Ahead: Addressing the Myths of Diversity Training and Offering AlternativesPaula Grace |
| 2 Diversity and Organizational ChangeGinger Lapid-Bogda |
| 3 Diversity Display Table: An Activity and a BibliographyJulie O'Mara |
| 4 Managing Diversity in the WorkplaceS. Kanu Kogod |
| 5 Diversity and Team DevelopmentClaire B. Halverson and Guillermo Cuellar |
| 6 Leveraging Difference and Diversity in Multicultural Teams: Virtually or Face-to-FaceDianne Hofner Saphiere |
| 7 Preventing Sexual Harassment: Stop Shortchanging Your Organization with Diversion ProgramsHarriet Cohen and Debbie Newman |
| 8 Consulting to Generation XH.B. Karp and Danilo Sirias |
| Part 2 Experiential Learning Activities |
| Diversity--The Broad View |
| 1 Expanding the Scope of Diversity Programs: A New ModelJulie O'Mara |
| 2 Tortuga Place and Your Place: Understanding DiversityC. Louise Sellaro and Anne M. McMahon and Betty Jo Licata |
| 3 Diversity Quiz: Viewing Differences as ResourcesLinda Eschenburg |
| 4 The Employment Case: Exploring Organizational Value ConflictsJoann Keyton |
| 5 What's Legal? Investigating Employment-Interview QuestionsRobert J. (Jack) Cantwell |
| The Usual Suspects--Race, Gender, Culture, and the Rest |
| 6 People with Disabilities: Understanding Diversity in the WorkplaceStephen P. Hanamura and Julie O'Mara |
| 7 Disability Awareness: Providing Equal Opportunities in the Training EnvironmentRobert William and Bob |
| 8 Early Memories: Learning About StereotypesRenee Yuengling |
| 9 Managerial Characteristics: Exploring StereotypesAllen K. Gulezian |
| 10 What's Your Gen X IQ? Heightening Intragroup AwarenessH.B. Karp and Danilo Sirias |
| 11 Bargaining, United Nations Style: Exploring the Impact of Cultural ValuesJulia T. Oliver and John E. Oliver |
| 12 Merger Mania: Understanding Intercultural NegotiationJohn Chesser |
| Perception, Values, and Work Roles |
| 13 What You See: Examining Different Points of ViewAnne M. McMahon and C. Louise Sellaro |
| 14 Cultural Triangle: Determining the Effect of Values on Customer/Client PerceptionsHomer Warren and Anne M. McMahon and C. Louise Sellaro and Carol Mikanowicz |
| 15 The Value Profile: Legitimizing Intergroup DifferencesEdward F. Pajak |
| 16 Intergroup Clearing: A Relationship-Building InterventionLawrence C. Porter |
| 17 Intergroup Meeting: An Image ExchangeThe Editors |
| Part 3 Inventories, Questionnaires, and Surveys |
| 1 Diversity Awareness AssessmentDavid P. Tulin |
| 2 Cross-Cultural Interactive Preference ProfileMorris Graham and Dwight Miller |
| 3 Cultural-Context Inventory: The Effects of Culture on Behavior and Work StyleClaire B. Halverson |
| 4 The Sexual Harassment Survey: Exploring Gender DifferencesJohn E. Oliver |
