Management of diverse employees

Author: Yu Shiguang
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: This book discusses a very common and important issue in American enterprises—managing diverse employees. It focuses on how to break traditional biases against female and minority employees, change previous inappropriate practices in managing diverse employees, and ensure that efficiency in the workplace is improved on a fair basis. The book also points out that diversity issues exist not only in terms of race and gender but also in differences among employees in nationality, religious beliefs, cultural backgrounds, and sexual orientation. Even different life experiences, ages, and personalities can constitute the unique characteristics of each employee. Therefore, in seemingly homogenous Chinese enterprises, diversity issues also exist. Especially with China's entry into the WTO and the opening of the labor market, an increasing number of people from different racial and cultural backgrounds will come to China for employment. How to leverage the unique characteristics of employees to help each one fully utilize their potential and improve corporate efficiency will become a pressing and unresolved issue for Chinese enterprises. Chinese business managers can draw many concepts and experiences from this book.
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