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Managing Diversity in the News

Mor Borak First USC Professor to Win Best Management Book
http://sowkweb.usc.edu/newsletter/managing.html

Global Management Expert Wins Award
http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/stories/14266.html

Conversations with the Experts
Sloan Work and Family Research Network, Boston College
Interview with Michàlle Mor Barak
http://wfnetwork.bc.edu/The_Network_News/19/newsletter.shtml]

Who Really Showed Up for Work Today?
http://whoshowedup.blogspot.com/2005/03/make-sure-that-those-who-show-up-know.html

Reviews

“Authored by an extremely knowledgeable professor with a joint appointment in business and social work at the University of Southern California, this volume provides a thorough, well-written and interesting resource on managing global workplace diversity that will be useful to both the practitioner and the conceptual researcher. . . . All in all, this is a refreshing and compelling volume that will be useful to anyone in global business management. . . . Highly recommended.”
T. Gutteridge, CHOICE Magazine

“A welcome addition to the emerging dialogue on diversity management is Michàlle Mor Barak’s inclusive workplace model...Managing Diversity comprehensively addresses the corporate role for inclusiveness as part of workforce management as well as at community, state and federal, and international levels.... Mor Barak…has made a substantial contribution to the human resources and management literature.”
Gary Bess, Profiles in Diversity Journal

“Managing Diversity comprehensively addresses the importance of inclusiveness as part of workforce management, which is scalable from small community-based organizations to large multinational service agencies.…Practical relevance is threaded throughout the book.…This book is a must read for social work management professionals and others committed to social justice in the workplace.”
Administration in Social Work, Vol. 30(4) 2006

“A welcome addition to the literature on building a globally inclusive workplace…. The book provides the latest information on changing workplace realities across countries, including legislation, demography, and developments in social policy.…The book offers some thoughtful illustrations and practical solutions to problems involved in developing a globally inclusive workplace….The book will be helpful for students and scholars in international business management, international HRM, diversity management and cross-cultural management. It is a useful resource for conceptualizing and implementing an inclusive workplace agenda. It reflects a global perspective and will interest readers across countries. The book has demonstrated well that when diversity and inclusion are being practiced as business strategies, they help in providing competitive advantage.”
Debi S. Saini, The Journal of Business Perspective, Vol. 9 No. 1 (January—March, 2005)

“The book is an excellence resource to develop, theorize, and work out the inclusive workplace in a very comprehensive, encompassing, and interdisciplinary way. It offers many features through inserted boxes, tables, graphs, and figures as well as practical examples and empirical illustrations that make the book very interesting for both the conceptual, pedagogical research interest and the practical, educational interest.”
Cordula Barzantny, Academy of Management Learning & Education, June 2007

“Over the last two decades organisations, government and society have grappled with demands presented by increased diversity in nations and workplaces alike. ….Mor Borak’s book is one of the first to explore the synergies between international management and domestic diversity management.”
Kate Hutchings, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Relations, 2005

“This book has been structured excellently and covers a vast number of diversity issues in just 16 chapters….This book would be of value to anyone with research interests in diversity management or cross-cultural issues….”
Sunil Kumar Singh, IIMB Management Review, June 2006, pp. 214-215

“This is a timely book. The book’s subject, managing diversity in a global workplace, portends the future for a growing area of social work policy and practice.…The book has numerous real-life examples and case vignettes.…The references are a great resource for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers. Each will find a global literature treasure trove.… A valuable resource for social work practice in a global context, the book is also highly recommended as a text in social work education programs.”
John J. Stretch, Social Work 51.3 (July 2006): 279(2)