Volume I, Number 1
4th Quarter 2003

WELCOME: AN INTRODUCTION TO DIVERSITY PRAXIS


• Model for Diversity Praxis:
  • Diverse representation - Values system - Ethical behaviors - Optimizing Diversity - Workplace Enchantment - Vitality and Growth
  • Model Explanation
  
  
• Constitutional Project for Organizational Vitality

Work-World (Context) Introduction

• Focus on Corporate Workplaces & Globalization, Healthcare, Education
• Deconstruct Case Histories, Issues, Stories for lessons learned
Work-Place (Culture) Introduction

• Ethical Pluralism - acculturation, the grammar of conduct, values driven multicultural collaboration, champions and improvement agents, accountability; the constitutional project
• Complex Adaptive organizations, communications competencies and dialogue - the safe space criteria, workplace vitality and re-enchantment
Work-Force (People) Introduction

• Diverse Identities and horizons - hybridity, multiculturalism, constitutional citizenship, autonomy, respect, dignity, responsibility, creativity


• Review Recent Diversity & Organizational Literature / Books: A Useful Synthesis and Reader's Guide
  A synopsis and Review of

  Diversity Beyond The Numbers: Business Vitality, Ethics and Identity in the 21st Century

  by Gary Y. Adkins
  GDI Press, 2003


• We Get Letters - Comments and Queries from Our Readers

Volume I, Number 2
1st Quarter 2004

WELCOME: AN INTRODUCTION TO DIVERSITY PRAXIS


• Model for Diversity Praxis:
  • Diverse representation - Values system - Ethical behaviors - Optimizing Diversity - Workplace Enchantment - Vitality and Growth
  • Model Explanation
  
  
• Constitutional Project for Organizational Vitality

Religion In the Workplace: Religious Diversity & Ethical Pluralism

A Workplace Vitality Defense of Secularism and Enlightenment Values
The French Scarf Affair
by Gary Y. Adkins Global Diversity Institute
Work-World (Context)
(EXCERPT) On February 6, 2004, the intercom voice aboard American Airlines Flight 34 from Los Angeles to New York identified himself as the pilot. He asked all Christians aboard to raise their hands. He then suggested that the other passengers ask questions during the flight of those who had identified themselves as Christians....

Work-Place (Culture)
(EXCERPT) Businesses are not merely instrumental associations of things for profit, but living social organizations of people with multiple and sometimes competing stakeholders (customers, employees, communities, shareholders or donors, and suppliers). Businesses are 'little societies' where citizenship skills such as civic tolerance, including religious freedom, can be deepened. It is at work where citizens of each country spend most of their lives outside of the home. And it is mostly at work where we learn and school ourselves after primary education....

Work-Force (People)
(EXCERPT) Although these kinds of situations are unfolding differently in France and Europe than in the U.S., the dramatic need to separate public morality from private morality, the need to educate and enforce a 'secular code', is crucial. The U.S. has a long history of absorbing immigrants, acculturating them to the constitutional value system and integrating them into society. We also have a long history of failing at that, from slavery and racism, to women's and gay rights. Yet, in our struggles we have continued to press forward for individual identity recognition. For this reason, I believe...


• Review
  Recent Diversity & Organizational Literature / Books: A Useful Synthesis and reader's guide

A Synopsis and Review of

Quantum Organizations

by Ralph H. Kilmann
Davies-Black Publishing, 2001


• We Get Letters - Comments and Queries from Our Readers

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