[Conntech] Last Call for Cross Cultural Communications!

[Christine Bradley]

Hi All:

Sign-ups have been slow for the OCLC training session on Cross Cultural
Communications to be held February 14 and 15 at University of Hartford.

 

I hate to cancel this session because managing diversity has become a
primary concern of top U.S. corporations as well as of libraries of all
types. (See the Rand report below.)

 

Check your calendars again to see if you can possibly make room in your
schedule for this important training opportunity, then sign-up at:
http://www.ctlibrarians.org/services/oclctraining.html.

 

If sign-ups haven't increased by the end of the day today, we will have to
cancel this session.

 

All best,

Chris

 

Rand Report: Managing Diversity in Corporate America 

Managing Diversity in Corporate America, An Exploratory Analysis

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/2007/RAND_OP206.pdf

By: Jefferson P. Marquis, Nelson Lim, Lynn M. Scott, Margaret C. Harrell,

Jennifer Kavanagh, January 23, 2008. 

 

"Managing diversity has become a primary concern of top U.S.

corporations. In this paper, the authors develop a fact-based approach

to modeling diversity management. They use the model to determine whether

diversity-friendly corporations really do stand out from other

companies by analyzing the strategies pursued by 14 large U.S. companies
recognized

for their diversity or human resource (HR) achievements. Finally, to

understand whether best practices alone make a company diversity-friendly,
they

compare a number of characteristics of best diversity companies, best HR

companies, and other companies, using quantitative and qualitative methods.
They

find that firms recognized for diversity are distinguished by a core set of

motives and practices that resemble those presented in the best-practices

literature, but that best practices per se may not enable a company to

achieve a high level of diversity. Contextual factors, such as industry

affiliation and company size, may be as significant as strategic

factors in influencing the extent of a company's diversity."

 

 

 

 

Christine Bradley, Executive Director

Connecticut Library Consortium

234 Court Street

Middletown, Connecticut 06457

Phone: 860-344-8777 ext. 103

Fax: 860-344-9199

cbradley at ctlibrarians.org

www.ctlibrarians.org

 

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