BOOKS:

Pigeonholed in the Land of Penguins — A Tale of Seeing Beyond Stereotypes
Author: Barbara "BJ" Hateley and Warren H. Schmidt (2000)
A follow-up to the best selling video A Peacock in the Land of Penguins, this animated book and video is a charming and inspiring training resource for diversity, employee involvement, problem-solving, leadership and creativity. It tackles an overlooked aspect of diversity — stereotyping — in a delightful way. It makes one do soul-searching about the casual way we limit unique abilities, talents, personalities and backgrounds —we do it to ourselves too.

Redefining Diversity
Author: R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr. (1996)
This book offers a completely new and wholly liberating definition of "diversity", provides new approaches to managing diversity while extending the concept to many other areas of business. Readers will learn how to use this broadened concept of diversity to better manage areas such as organizational redesign, globalization, strategic planning and human resources. The book features fascinating profiles of companies that are applying Thomas’ ideas

Proversity (Progressive Diversity)
Author: Jack Foster (1997)
The author of this book offers a new approach for transforming diversity, affirmative action and multiculturalism in the workplace from a hindrance into a powerful competitive advantage. "Proversity" is Graham’s new term for progressive diversity. Written in the form of a business novel, the book chronicles the education and enlightenment of Percy McGee, an average manager in an average company, as he overcomes his bias and learns to see beyond people’s differences to recognize their strengths.

The World Holiday Book — Celebrations for Every Day of the Year
Author: Anneli Rufus (1994)
For everyone who is looking for a reason to celebrate, this book is a treasure trove of 374 delightful, humorous, and surprising festivals from all over the world. From the wacky to the traditional, this lighthearted collection of reveries transforms every day into a celebration.

Handling Diversity in the Workplace — Communication is the Key
Author: Kay Dupont (1997)
The workplace, like society, is multicultural. To succeed, organizations must value the differences of a diverse population and the individuality of all people; employees and customers alike should be treated with dignity. This book helps readers understand how words and actions in today’s diverse workplace affect people and productivity and ultimately an organization’s bottom line.

The Manager’s Pocket Guide to Generation X
Author: Bruce Tulgan (1997)
This concise, hands-on guide will enable managers to recruit, train, motivate, and retain young employees. It explains in simple terms what makes Generation X employees different and outlines how you can put their unique skills and characteristics to work on behalf of your organization.

The Questions of Diversity
Edited by: George Simons and Bob Abramms (1994)
Written by some of the nations top diversity experts, this book contains 19 diagnostic instruments. The first 9 are useful in an introductory exploration of diversity issues. The remaining 10 are most useful for organizations already along the road to fostering, valuing, and supporting a multicultural climate. Also included are 5 management activities to help reinforce what has been learned from the use of the diagnostic instruments and complete instructions. All the surveys come on computer disk in Word and WordPerfect formats so you can customize and reproduce.

The Manager’s Diversity Responsibilities
Author: The GilDeane Group
This article packet contains ten articles that identify what managers can do to make a difference. It includes the manager’s skills list, and looks at flexibility, performance reviews, interviewing, language difference, and counteracting subtle prejudice.

Gestures — The DO’s and TABOOs of Body Language Around the World
Author: Roger E. Axtell (1998)
Before you raise your hand to signal the waiter, extend your thumb to hitch-hike, or flash the "O.K." sign with thumb and forefinger, STOP! Think of where you are and exactly what you are trying to say — otherwise you could create an international incident. Exploring the ins and outs of body language from head to toe, this newly revised and expanded edition of the author’s indispensable guide takes you all around the work of gestures — what they mean, how to use them and when to avoid them.

The Diversity Advantage — A Guide to Making Diversity Work
Author: Lenora Billings-Harris (1998)
This book provides specific tactics to help you clarify the difference between treating people equally versus treating everyone the same; implement day-to-day practices to help you create an inclusive environment; see people as individuals while creating an environment to take advantage of the strengths of the team; and to understand the current government rules and regulations as they apply to businesses — large and small.

Building a House for Diversity
Author: R. Roosevelt Thomas (1999)
In this book, the author, one of America’s most respected experts on diversity, uses the metaphor of giraffes and elephants — insiders and outsiders — to examine our assumptions about power, influence, affirmative action and acceptance of the "the others". This richly accessible guide will have you thinking about these critical issues in a whole new way. It will also show you how to develop the quantifiable set of skills that are the essence of diversity management. This book will get you and your organization started on breaking down and rebuilding the walls, and handling the inevitable tension and complexities that are healthy signs of change. It creative and practical approach will help you achieve a new level of maturity in the way you think and act about diversity.

Mentoring Dilemmas — Developmental Relationships within Multicultural Organizations
Edited by: Audrey J. Murrell, Faye J. Crosby and Robin J. Ely (1999)
This book includes chapters by several authors exploring the connection between mentoring in organizations and diversity. Theory, research and practical experiences are revealed in this timely discussion of two key issues facing organizations today and in the future. Clearly the editors have stumbled upon a critical aspect of "best practice" within organizations — the role of diversified developmental relationships.

VIDEOS:

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Diverse Teams at Work — Capitalizing on the Power of Diversity
Based on the book by: Lee Gardenswartz and Anita Rowe (25 min.) (1995)
This video, based on the business book by Lee Gardenwartz and Anita Rowe, fosters greater understanding and respect between people of different backgrounds who serve on today’s organizational work teams. Every person on a team has a unique, four layer, "diversity filter." How people behave or react others on a team is a function of many complex factors, including: an individual’s personality, age, race, gender, sexual orientation, work experience, educational background, organizational seniority, functional level and classification. Diversity is not new…but acknowledging and capitalizing on it can leverage the richness of every work team’s diversity to achieve organizational objective.

A Tale of O
Distributed by: Good Measure Inc. (1993)
This 30-minute videotape explores the consequences of being different. It focuses on a

group of people in which some are "the many", called the X's, and some "are the few", the O's. The differences can come from a variety of factors - age, sex, race, language, occupation, status or even such matters as hair-style or length. The video is a particularly good start for opening a talk about diversity issues. This video is an entertaining and captivating parable about what happens to any new or different kind of person

Village of 100
Distributed by: Sum Fun Productions (2 min)
If we shrunk the earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing ratios remaining the same, what would it look like?

Dialogue on Diversity: Straight White Men Speak Out

Produced by: Loden Associates, Inc. (31 min.) (1997)

A video discussion of the issues and concerns of professional white men who value diversity and support this change in the American workplace.

CD ROMS:

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Diversity
This Clarity CD-ROM course will help create an understanding of valuing differences and will teach the student to confront his or her belief system in order to eliminate prejudices and stereotyping. Employees will learn to recognize personal value and the importance of inclusion.

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