Leading the diverse workforce

McCuiston, Velma E.; Wooldridge, Barbara Ross; Pierce, Chris

doi:10.1108/01437730410512787

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“…While a gender-diverse teaching workforce is typically discussed in educational literature in terms of benefits for students, gender diversity is a goal in numerous industries internationally. Workforce diversity (of age, gender, ethnicity, and religion) is frequently pursued to foster an inclusive workplace and to ensure that an organization is reflective of the broader community it serves (McCuiston, Ross Wooldridge, & Pierce, 2004). Notably, such efforts have been found to positively impact employees' job satisfaction and performance (Pitts, 2009).…”

Section: The Organizational Level: Workforce Gender Diversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Plight of the Male Teacher: An Interdisciplinary and Multileveled Theoretical Framework for Researching a Shortage of Male Teachers

McGrath

Moosa

Bergen

et al. 2019

The Journal of Men’s Studies

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In this article, four researchers from Australia and South Africa consider why it is important for primary schools to include both male and female teachers. The authors refute previous calls directed by public and political discourse, for male teachers to enhance boy’s educational outcomes or to act as role models or father figures. Instead, the authors present a theoretical framework that justifies calls for male teachers at four levels: the child level, the classroom level, the organizational level, and the societal level. While complex barriers may continue to limit male teacher representation, the authors hope that this interdisciplinary framework might stimulate further international scholarly discussions about the interactions between teacher-gender, education, and culture.

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Section: The Organizational Level: Workforce Gender Diversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Plight of the Male Teacher: An Interdisciplinary and Multileveled Theoretical Framework for Researching a Shortage of Male Teachers

McGrath

Moosa

Bergen

et al. 2019

The Journal of Men’s Studies

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“…The same study showed that heterogeneity in functional background and race/ethnicity may improve group performance through the contribution of diverse information and skills. McCuiston et al (2004) argued that diversity can improve companies' bottom line by improving corporate culture, improving relationships with clients, retaining talented employees, decreasing complaints, and improving employee morale. Although the creation of cultural "enclaves" within organisations can provide the space where cultural, minority, groups find social support and networking it is seen to weaken links and cohesion with other cultural groups (Loosemore et al 2010).…”

Section: Management Of Culturally Diversified Project Teamsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The impact of cultural diversity on the effectiveness of construction project teams

Dulaimi

Hariz

2011

Engineering Project Organization Journal

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Before the Global Financial Crisis hit the region in 2008 the buoyant construction activities in the United Arab Emirates, and especially in Dubai, was successful in attracting many multinational companies and professionals from across the globe. One of the main drawbacks of this business environment is the increasingly high competition between such companies to recruit and retain the needed human resources. This paper has investigated the cultural diversity phenomenon in construction project teamss in Dubai and its affect on their effectiveness. The main objective of the paper is to examine the impact of cultural diversity of the project team on their performance. The paper reports the results of an empirical study into the relationship between the extent of cultural diversity and project team performance.The findings of the empirical study suggest that there is no significant relationship between the degree of project team cultural diversity and their overall performance measure. However, the results showed that there is a negative relationship between the degree of cultural diversity and output, productivity, and efficiency.

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“…Drawing largely upon research into corporate performance, diverse organisations outperform homogenous ones in a plethora of ways. Diverse organisations are: more productive; better attract and retain talent; foster higher levels of employee satisfaction; and boast higher levels of public legitimacy (Davis et al , 2016; McCuiston et al , 2004).…”

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Valuing different shades of blue

McLeod

Herrington

2017

IJES

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine Australian efforts to promote gender equality in policing, suggesting that future police leaders will be confronted with the challenge of ensuring that their organisations are not only demographically diverse, but more importantly, that they are inclusive. Design/methodology/approach The paper utilises current Australian efforts to promote gender equality (case study), as a means of examining the way in which the conceptual distinction between diversity and inclusion plays out in practice. Findings The paper finds that current efforts to promote gender equality are being used as a proxy for diversity more broadly and are overly focussed upon demographic diversity. Less attention is being paid to the development of inclusive work environments, which will present a challenge to future leaders who are required to manage more heterogenous workforces. Research limitations/implications Research into the efficacy of existing strategies, which will further theoretical debate, is proposed, with a call for research by those from a wider range of disciplines, in addition to psychology and management studies, being made. Practical implications It is recommended that policing organisations utilise language focussed upon inclusion rather than diversity and foster cultures of learning, beginning at the academy. Originality/value The paper contributes to the global debate on workforce diversity by drawing on a Southern Hemisphere perspective on contemporary efforts in policing. This complements extant studies on diversity which emanate primarily from the UK and USA, and provides an important reflection for police organisations across the world as they proceed with good intentions around creating much needed cultures of difference in thinking and operating.

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Leading the diverse workforce

Cited by 44 publications

References 4 publications

The Plight of the Male Teacher: An Interdisciplinary and Multileveled Theoretical Framework for Researching a Shortage of Male Teachers

The Plight of the Male Teacher: An Interdisciplinary and Multileveled Theoretical Framework for Researching a Shortage of Male Teachers

The impact of cultural diversity on the effectiveness of construction project teams

Valuing different shades of blue

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