Business Management

Management Practices for Engaging a Diverse Workforce
Tools to Enhance Workplace Culture

Editor: Manish Gupta, PhD

Management Practices for Engaging a Diverse Workforce

Published. Available now.
Pub Date: November 2020
Hardback Price: see ordering info
Hard ISBN: 9781771888639
E-Book ISBN: 9780367808419
Pages: 376pp with index
Binding Type: Hardback
Notes: 6 color and 5 b/w illustrations


Reviews
“A highly valuable addition to the field of research on workforce diversity and its impact on organizational culture. The chapters included in the book are carefully selected to concentrate on the vital aspects of an inclusive workforce. The authors have skilfully scanned the research landscape to contribute importantly on critical issues linked to age, gender, sexual orientation, race, generation-gap, physical disability, marital status, and different classes. As a compendium, this book is a very useful guide to learn strategies in building high-performance organizations through an inclusive workforce.” /
—Diganta Chakrabarti, PhD, Associate Professor, Flame University, India


This unique volume, Management Practices for Engaging a Diverse Workforce: Tools to Enhance Workplace Culture, shows how to tackle the challenges of diversity in the workplace. It addresses the need to keep the workforce engaged while taking into consideration the diverse backgrounds of employees. The book explores 12 themes of workforce diversity and culture, including differences of race, religion, gender, sexuality, income class, education level, marital status, generation/age, physical ability, and more. Focusing on the benefits of engaging a diverse workforce, the volume considers the issue through the different stages of the human resource process, including recruitment, selection, performance appraisal, demand forecasting, supply forecasting, job description and specification, job analysis and evaluation, training and development, career planning and development, succession planning, etc.

Employing an abundance of case studies, the volume enables readers to comprehend what it means to have a diverse workforce and how to engage such a workforce for the betterment of the employees as well as the employer. The volume acts as a textbook for courses on diversity in human resource management as well as a valuable resource for HRM and other management professionals. The discussions and questions sections will be useful for faculty, and the short case studies are designed to keep students interested—and engaged. The chapter authors follow a standard structure throughout the book, introducing the particular theme of workforce diversity followed by the significance of the theme, a review of the theme, the implications of the theme, and a conclusion.

Key features:

  • Discusses many diverse types of employees, including race, gender, sexuality, education level, age, and more
  • Includes an abundance of short case studies based on real and hypothetical incidents
  • Provides brief descriptions of a particular type of workforce diversity
  • Includes case discussions to help teachers direct a case toward concept and make the student know the possible case solution
  • Includes critical questions to brainstorm each concept

CONTENTS:
Preface

1. Engaging an LGBT Workforce: Inclusion through Workplace Culture
Ruby Sengar, Narendra Singh Chaudhary, Bharat Bhushan, and Santosh Rangnekar

2. Active Aging: Engaging the Aged
Ritu Gupta, Shruthi J Mayur, and Swati Hans

3. Engaging Diverse Races at Work
Arti Sharma and Rajesh Mokale

4. The Education Divide at Work
Neha Gangwar

5. Gen-Z, the Future Workforce: Confrontation of Expectations, Efforts, and Engagement
Sheema Tarab

6. Cross-Generational Engagement Strategies
Musarrat Shaheen and Farrah Zeba

7. Managing Married Employees
Anugamini P. Srivastava

8. Cross-Border Mergers: The Use of Employment Engagement Tools in Overcoming Challenges of Workforce Cultural Diversity
Shweta Lalwani

9. Engaging People with Physical Disability at Work
Anitha Acharya

10. Engaging Different Income Classes at Work
Anitha Acharya

11. Is Work Engagement Gender Oriented? A Man/Woman Perspective
Sindhu Ravindranath

12. Volunteering for Community: Learning and Challenges in Diversity
Trilok Kumar Jain

Index


About the Authors / Editors:
Editor: Manish Gupta, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of HR, IBS Hyderabad, a Constituent of IFHE, Deemed to be University, Telangana, India

Manish Gupta, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of HR, IBS Hyderabad, a Constituent of IFHE, Deemed to be University, Telangana, India. He has both teaching and industry experience. He is an editorial team member of the Australasian Journal of Information Systems, International Journal of Knowledge Management, and Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations. Recently, he has completed special issue editorial assignments for Advances in Developing Human Resources, Journal of Global Operations and Strategic Sourcing, Industrial and Commercial Training, Australasian Journal of Information Systems, and International Journal of Knowledge Management. He is also editing special issues for Human Resource Management Review, International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing, International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Management Decision, International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, and Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations. He is also a consulting editor of The HRM Review. He has co-authored a book, Practical Applications of HR Analytics: A Step-by-Step Guide, and has co-edited a book, Qualitative Techniques for Workplace Data Analysis. He has conducted a workshop on academic writing and has presented papers at various conferences. His work has received media coverage in international magazines, newspapers, blogs, and news channels. He has published book chapters and over 30 research papers in the journal of international repute. He has recently won the AIMS International Outstanding Young Management Researcher Award 2019 and the Advances in Developing Human Resources best issue of 2018 award. He is a recipient of a Junior Research Fellowship and National Eligibility Test certificate awarded by the University Grants Commission, Government of India. His PhD thesis was in the area of work engagement.




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