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• catalog abstract "The latest fad in American businesses and universities is "diversity training." Most are familiar with the format: employees or students sit in a circle with their co-workers or classmates and engage in a variety of strange exercises. They role play, talk about their feelings, confront their prejudices. It all seems rather harmless, if a bit silly. Whose idea was all of this, anyway? Where did diversity training come from, and where is it going? The author spent five years researching the diversity business from the inside -- interviewing its principals, attending numerous sensitivity seminars, and studying institutions, such as the University of Michigan and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which have transformed themselves into virtual showcases of diversity. However innocuous this movement appears from the outside, Lynch finds that it is much more than it seems. Corporations, government offices, and colleges spend tens of millions of dollars annually to hire outside diversity consultants, who promise to turn these institutions into utopian meccas; in the institution that has learned to "value diversity," all tension between men and women, blacks and whites, gays and straights will be purged. But when these grandiose promises inevitably fall flat, the diversity merchants are expert in finding scapegoats. Either management didn't spend enough money on programs, or the organization was not aggressive enough in pursuing "non-white male" applicants, or there was a "white male backlash" against the inclusion of minorities and women in the institution. Indeed, the diversity industry cites no studies or other evidence to back up its dubious marketing claims. Some diversity consultants allege that pursuing diversity enhances a company's bottom line. Others take an even more cynical approach, declaring a bogus moral authority by portraying their business as the heir to the civil rights movement. The author shows how both of these postures work in concert to hoodwink thousands of American managers and CEOs into spending scarce resources on diversity patent medicines. This book effectively exposes the self-righteous, greedy, and ultimately ineffectual underside of the diversity business.".
• catalog contributor b10150684.
• catalog created "c1997.".
• catalog date "1997".
• catalog date "c1997.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
• catalog description "Acknowledgments -- Prologue : A taste of diversity training -- Introduction : beyond affirmative action -- Chapter 1. From "American Dilemma" to affirmative action -- Chapter 2. The evangelist and the business professor : the first diversity blueprints -- Chapter 3. Demography is destiny : the diversity machine takes off -- Chapter 4. Recession, rebellion, riot : the diversity machine at bay -- Chapter 5. Frustration and stall : confronting awkward cultural and political differences -- Chapter 6. Strong new allies, weak policy proof : Griggs and Thomas reformulate diversity -- Chapter 7. Defensive diversity training : the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department -- Chapter 8. From diversity dreams to budget nightmares : the California Community Colleges System -- Chapter 9. Multicultural vision meets multiversity realities : the University of Michigan -- Chapter 10. The diversity machine : transformed, transforming -- and waiting -- Methodological appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.".
• catalog description "Either management didn't spend enough money on programs, or the organization was not aggressive enough in pursuing "non-white male" applicants, or there was a "white male backlash" against the inclusion of minorities and women in the institution. Indeed, the diversity industry cites no studies or other evidence to back up its dubious marketing claims. Some diversity consultants allege that pursuing diversity enhances a company's bottom line. Others take an even more cynical approach, declaring a bogus moral authority by portraying their business as the heir to the civil rights movement. The author shows how both of these postures work in concert to hoodwink thousands of American managers and CEOs into spending scarce resources on diversity patent medicines. This book effectively exposes the self-righteous, greedy, and ultimately ineffectual underside of the diversity business.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-402) and index.".
• catalog description "The latest fad in American businesses and universities is "diversity training." Most are familiar with the format: employees or students sit in a circle with their co-workers or classmates and engage in a variety of strange exercises. They role play, talk about their feelings, confront their prejudices. It all seems rather harmless, if a bit silly. Whose idea was all of this, anyway? Where did diversity training come from, and where is it going? The author spent five years researching the diversity business from the inside -- ".
• catalog description "interviewing its principals, attending numerous sensitivity seminars, and studying institutions, such as the University of Michigan and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which have transformed themselves into virtual showcases of diversity. However innocuous this movement appears from the outside, Lynch finds that it is much more than it seems. Corporations, government offices, and colleges spend tens of millions of dollars annually to hire outside diversity consultants, who promise to turn these institutions into utopian meccas; in the institution that has learned to "value diversity," all tension between men and women, blacks and whites, gays and straights will be purged. But when these grandiose promises inevitably fall flat, the diversity merchants are expert in finding scapegoats. ".
• catalog extent "xv, 416 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Diversity machine.".
• catalog identifier "0684822830".
• catalog isFormatOf "Diversity machine.".
• catalog issued "1997".
• catalog issued "c1997.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Free Press,".
• catalog relation "Diversity machine.".
• catalog spatial "United States.".
• catalog subject "331.11/43 20".
• catalog subject "Civil Rights United States.".
• catalog subject "Cultural Diversity United States.".
• catalog subject "Diversity in the workplace United States.".
• catalog subject "HF 5549.5 .M5 L987d 1997".
• catalog subject "HF5549.5.M5 L96 1997".
• catalog subject "Interpersonal Relations United States.".
• catalog subject "Minority Groups psychology United States.".
• catalog subject "Multiculturalism United States.".
• catalog subject "Organizational Culture United States.".
• catalog subject "Staff Development United States.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Acknowledgments -- Prologue : A taste of diversity training -- Introduction : beyond affirmative action -- Chapter 1. From "American Dilemma" to affirmative action -- Chapter 2. The evangelist and the business professor : the first diversity blueprints -- Chapter 3. Demography is destiny : the diversity machine takes off -- Chapter 4. Recession, rebellion, riot : the diversity machine at bay -- Chapter 5. Frustration and stall : confronting awkward cultural and political differences -- Chapter 6. Strong new allies, weak policy proof : Griggs and Thomas reformulate diversity -- Chapter 7. Defensive diversity training : the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department -- Chapter 8. From diversity dreams to budget nightmares : the California Community Colleges System -- Chapter 9. Multicultural vision meets multiversity realities : the University of Michigan -- Chapter 10. The diversity machine : transformed, transforming -- and waiting -- Methodological appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.".
• catalog title "The diversity machine : the drive to change the "white male workplace" / Frederick R. Lynch.".
• catalog type "text".