María Triana. Managing diversity in organizations: a global perspective (2017)

María Triana. Managing diversity in organizations: a global perspective. New York: Routledge, 2017, XII+373 p. ISBN 9781138917019

This book equips students with a thorough understanding of the advantages and challenges presented by workplace diversity, suggesting techniques to manage diversity effectively and maximize its benefits. Readers will learn to work with diverse groups to create a productive organization in which everyone feels included.

The author offers a comprehensive survey of demographic groups and an analysis of their history, allowing students to develop a deep understanding of the dimensions of diversity. From this foundation, students are taught to manage diversity effectively on the basis of race, sex, LGBTQIA, religion, age, ability, national origin, and intersectionality in organizations and to understand the issues various groups face, including discrimination. Opening with current case studies and discussion questions to enhance comprehension, the chapters provide practical insight into subconscious/implicit bias, team diversity, and diversity management in the United States and abroad. “Global View” examples further highlight how diversity management unfolds around the world.

Offering a fresh look at workplace diversity, this book will serve students of diversity, human resource management, and organizational studies. A companion website featuring an instructor’s manual, PowerPoint slides, and test banks provides additional support for students and instructors.

María del Carmen Triana is an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA.

p. 168: … Turkmen, Iraqi citizens of Turkish origin, are the third largest ethnic group in Iraq after Arabs and Kurds, and they are said to number about 3 million of Iraq’s 34.7 million citizens according to the Iraqi Ministry of Planning (Bassem, 2016). They are primarily Muslim, with the minority being Catholic. They live mostly along the dividing line between the Arab and Kurdish regions of Iraq in the Nineveh provinces. They often get caught in conflicts between the central government and the Kurdish region and are pressured to assimilate by both Kurds and Arabs. Turkmen have also been attacked by jihadists. Following the Islamic State (ISIS—the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) takeover of Tal Afar in Nineveh, most of the town’s 250,000 population fled to the Kurdish region of Iraq (al-Lami, 2014).