Cases in Gender & Diversity in Organizations

by Alison Konrad

Overview

Cases in Gender & Diversity in Organizations is a compilation of real-life business cases illustrating the unique opportunities and challenges for managers of the new, more demographically diverse workplace. The Casebook provides a thorough overview of the issues and challenges facing organizations as more women enter the workplace, as parents struggle to create more balance between their work and family lives, and as members of different ethnic groups interact more frequently in work organizations around the world. Cases in Gender & Diversity in Organizations offers students the opportunity to develop strategies to make effective decisions regarding a wide array of workplace diversity issues. The Casebook offers contemporary managers a clear sense of the relevance and importance of diversity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412918046
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	12/08/2005
Series:	The Ivey Casebook Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	7.38(w) x 9.12(h) x (d)

About the Author

Alison M. Konrad is a Professor of Organizational Behavior and holder of the Corus Entertainment Chair in Women in Management at the Richard Ivey School of Business, U. of Western Ontario. Previously, she was Professor of Human Resource Administration at Temple University’s Fox School of Business and Management, where she taught for 15 years. She received her Ph.D. from the Claremont Graduate University in 1987 and held a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University from 1986 to 1988.

Professor Konrad was Chair of the Academy of Management’s Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division in 1996-97 and President of the Eastern Academy of Management in 1997-98. She is the 2003-07 Editor of Group and Organization Management, a ranked journal in the fields of management and applied psychology. She is an Associate Editor of the journal, Gender, Work and Organization and a past editorial board member for the Academy of Management Review.

She has published over 30 articles and chapters on topics relating to workplace diversity in outlets such as the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Gender, Work and Organization, Group and Organization Management, Human Relations, Psychological Bulletin, Sex Roles, and the Strategic Management Journal. Professor Konrad’s forthcoming book, the Sage Publications “Handbook of Workplace Diversity” (co-edited with Pushkala Prasad and Judith Pringle) is an international edited collection of conceptual perspectives on the topic of diversity within the field of organizational studies. Professor Konrad’s current work focuses on organizational diversity and inclusivity initiatives, job retention among former welfare clients, and the links between individual preferences and career outcomes for women and men.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Ivey Casebook Series by Paul W. Beamish
Introduction
1. Workplace Discrimination
Avoiding Discrimination in Employment Selection and Retention: Some Legal Issues
Staffing at Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (A)
Nextech Inc. (A)
Stamford Machine Corporation: Allegations of Racism
Ottawa Valley Food Products
CTV Newsnet (A)
2. Sexual Harassment
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: Definition, Cases and Policy
Rebecca Collier
Ruth Jones (A)
Telcom
"Most Likely to Sleep With Her Boss…and the Winner Is…Gail Wilson" (A)
3. Work-Life Balance
Anna Harris (A)
4. Organizational Diversity Programs
Diversity: A Quota by Any Other Name?
Women in Management at London Life (A)
The Bank of Montreal—The Task Force on the Advancement of Women in the Bank (A)
"Synergy" at City Hall (A)
5. Cross-Cultural Diversity
Ellen Moore (A): Living and Working in Bahrain
Ellen Moore (A): Living and Working in Korea
Julie Dempster (A)
The European Experience (A)
Being Different: Exchange Student Experiences
The Changing Face of Europe: A Note on Immigration and Societal Attitudes
6. Entrepreneurship
Marie Bohm and The Aspect Group
The Purchasing Co-Op
Rubenesque
Growth, Strategy and Slotting at No Pudge! Foods, Inc.
English Center for Newcomers
About the Editor