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Title: Components of Leadership for Diversity


1
Leadership for Diversity Cox Ch 3
  • Components of Leadership for Diversity
  • Articulates a vision
  • Changes behaviors
  • Changes organizational structure/design
  • Strategic integration of diversity management
    with other business objectives
  • Communications strategy
  • Management philosophy

2
Nature of Diversity Leadership
  • Top down leadership
  • Ensure succession planning involves diversity mgt
  • Multiple leaders needed
  • Leaders at various levels of organization, and
    for different units must be involved
  • Leadership cannot be delegated
  • Diversity steering committee should not have more
    than 2 HR representatives
  • Chair of committee should not be HR officer
  • External diversity consultant should communicate
    with important operational leaders

3
Components of Vision
  • Including employees of different cultural and
    social backgrounds at ALL levels
  • Use pluralism to acculturate new employees
  • Informal networks mentoring should involve
    employees of ALL cultures social backgrounds
  • Eliminate bias based on cultural or social
    identities
  • Minimize conflict based on group identities

4
Behavioral Change on Leaders Part
  • Leader models new diversity-competent behaviors
  • Leader has credibility in diversity
  • Include diversity competent behaviors in
    performance appraisals of leaders
  • Use tools to identify diversity-supportive and
    anti-diversity behaviors
  • Additional diversity-competent behaviors on Table
    3.1

5
Change in Organizational Structure
  • Full time corporate officer for diversity
  • Reports directly to CEO
  • Has support staff of 2-3
  • Corporate-level diversity steering committee
  • Local diversity task forces (can be permanent)
  • Ensure corporate officer/steering committee lasts
    for 2-3 years
  • Mainstream corporate officer steering committee
    functions within this time

6
Change in Organizational Structure
  • Diversity Steering Committee
  • Should have highly influential decision makers
  • Members have personal interest in change effort
  • Members are knowledgeable or be willing to learn
    about diversity
  • Members are willing and able to devote a time
  • Should reflect diversity of workforce
  • Less than 10
  • Should not exclude majority group members
  • Should not have more than 2 HR representatives
  • Should not have people with no credibility on
    diversity

7
Change in Organizational Structure
  • Alternate Structures
  • Integrate diversity management functions into
    various business units rather than appoint
    corporate officer
  • Job description of Head of HR involves a
    significant amount diversity-related duties
  • Ensure adequate resources available to those who
    have additional diversity-related
    responsibilities

8
Strategic Integration
  • Integrate diversity strategy with mission of
    organization
  • Employees understand why/how managing diversity
    affects organizational goals
  • Long Timeframe
  • Communication to members that diversity related
    change takes 7-10 years

9
Strategic Integration
  • Include managing people as part of business
    strategy
  • Specify managing diversity as part of people
    management strategy
  • E.g., training in team building should include
    role of diversity in teams
  • Changes in recruiting criteria can incorporate
    diversity

10
Strategic Integration
  • Specify how to communicate and coordinate
  • Members involved with different aspects of the
    people management strategy communicate with each
    other, or to corporate diversity steering
    committee
  • Corporate diversity officer should communicate
    and coordinate with those involved in the people
    management strategy
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