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What Do We Mean By managing diversity ? Originally Published in Sumati Reddy, editor. Workforce diversity , Vol. 3: Concepts and Cases. Hyderabad, India: ICAFAI University, By Caleb Rosado, Professor in Sociology Southern Connecticut State University New Haven, CT Originally written in 1997; revised in 2006. January 2006, Rosado Consulting for Change in Human Systems Rosado - What Do We Mean by managing diversity ? Published by EdChange and the Multicultural Pavilion 1 What Do We Mean By managing diversity ? By Caleb Rosado* It is an axiom of our times that our world is rapidly changing. With change comes not only a different view of the world, but also changes in language to name that new world. Old words take on new meanings and new words enter the vocabulary, resulting in another way of seeing. It was not too long ago that as a nation we moved from an Agrarian Society concerned with conformity, through an Industrial Society concerned with nationalism and uniformity, to our present Information Society concerned with diversity within a global context, on our way to the Global Society of the 21st century with a planetary Such cultural and political upheavals have given rise to knowledgeable players in the game of social change, while leaving most people as confused bystanders, desperately hanging on to a past, which in part is
What Do We Mean By “Managing Diversity”? Originally Published in Sumati Reddy, editor. Workforce Diversity, Vol. 3: Concepts and Cases. Hyderabad, India: ICAFAI University,
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