Format:
1 online resource (315 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780750648363
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9780080496559
Content:
Organizations with a diverse workforce will have a leading edge in the New World economy. 'Mentoring and Diversity' illustrates the importance of mentoring as a proactive tool in diversity initiatives, and demonstrates how mentoring can be used to recruit, develop and retain a diverse and innovative workforce. This book brings together new and innovative perspectives on diversity and mentoring relationships within a variety of international settings. 'Mentoring and Diversity' provides a unique blend of research and practice, and is an indispensable guide for any company that seeks to develop a more diverse workforce. It will serve as a fundamental text for practitioners interested in developing effective mentoring programmes and for researchers seeking to understand these critical and complex relationships. Interviews, cases and qualitative data from a variety of international settings are used to support the models and theries developed in the text. These cases illustrate "diversity in action" in mentoring relationships, and provide guidance for developing effective mentoring programmes and diverse mentoring relationships in organizations. The book is composed of four sections that reflect theory, research and practice: * An overview of the theory and research on diversified mentoring relationships, followed by an applied model of diversity in mentoring relationships. * Some empirically based and pragmatic observations of "best practices" that are used by diversified mentoring programmes in various international contexts. * A collection of international case studies of diversity in both mentoring programmes and individual mentoring relationships. These cases illustrate the challenges and benefits associated with diversity in mentoring relationships. Organizational cases are drawn from such companies as Procter and Gamble, Volvo and World
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Bank. These cases provide practical guidance on how to develop effective mentoring programmes. * An integrative analysis of some of the recurring themes in the case studies that are supported by existing research but also chart new ground for emerging reseach and theory
Note:
Cover -- Mentoring and Diversity: An international perspective -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface: how to read this book -- 1 Gender and race in mentoring relationships: a review of the literature -- 2 Understanding diversified mentoring relationships: definitions, challenges and strategies -- 3 Establishing and sustaining a formal mentoring programme for working with diversified groups -- 4 Building and sustaining the diversity-mentoring relationship -- 5 What every diversity mentor should know about stereotyping -- 6 Individual case studies -- Sexual orientation and mentorship: the benefits of a gay mentor/gay protégé relationship -- Fione, Bob and office politics: a case study of intimacy -- Race, gender and mentorship: going beneath the surface -- Working with Bob -- Mentoring and the lesbian connection - USA -- My experience as a mentor on the University of Hertfordshire's 'Women Entrepreneurs' course - UK -- Intergroup diversity dynamics and mentoring - USA -- Mentoring for diversity: an international perspective - UK -- Lloyds TSB plc - UK -- 7 Some further reflections by the mentor -- 8 Differences that make a difference: common themes in the individual case studies of diversified mentoring relationships -- 9 Organizational case studies -- Diversity by accident: London Borough of Ealing -- Mentoring up at Procter andamp -- Gamble - USA -- Mentoring to help women set up a business - UK -- A diversity mentoring programme: advisory circles - USA -- A case study from SAS - Sweden -- Mentoring teen parents: fostering individual and community resilience - USA -- Mentoring for disability in the Civil Service - UK -- Embracing diversity at Sheffield Hallam University - UK -- The Probation Service: a congruent mentoring network - UK -- Mentoring the many faces of diversity - UK
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The Pakistani Mentoring Partnership, an Excellence in Cities Learning Mentor in Birmingham - UK -- Transco women's mentoring programme - UK -- Disabled writers' mentoring scheme - UK -- Mentoring for diversity or conformity: rhetoric and reality - UK -- BT Ethnic Minority Network Mentoring Programme - UK -- Building a mentoring culture: the World Bank experience -- 10 Some key issues for diversity mentoring -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Ragins, Belle Rose Mentoring and Diversity Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2002 ISBN 9780750648363
Language:
English
Keywords:
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