Leads and supports efforts to advance a diverse, equitable and inclusive community and workplace consistent with Extension’s core values. Builds awareness (of self and others across differences) and prioritizes diverse relationships, networks and collaborations to build and include all Michigan’s population across program planning, delivery and evaluation. Open to understanding, historical and current barriers that impact constituents and colleagues lives at the personal, interpersonal, institutional and culture levels. Consistently upholds the highest standards of equity and inclusion in programs.
Handbook of Research Methods in Diversity Management, Equality and Inclusion at Work by 
Interpersonal Communication in the Diverse Workplace: Get Along, Get It Done, Get Ahead by
Foregrounding the vital importance of interpersonal communication and cultural competence in the workplace, this book offers concise, practical strategies for daily communication in a global business environment. The workplace is steadily becoming more diverse, and cultural competence is widely recognized as a key to success, in terms of revenue, profit, market share, and workforce productivity. This and diversity appreciation are the two cornerstones for effective interpersonal communication, facilitating relationship development, improving job satisfaction, commitment, loyalty, and trust, and leading to performance and organizational success. The effectiveness of diversity training sessions and cultural guidebooks can vary--business professionals need a book that presents more than descriptions of culture-bound business practices or prescriptions for valuing diversity. This book is that practical solution, presenting a conceptual model along with tools to put it to work from day one, including cases and examples. With its strategies for reducing diversity miscues, techniques for responding in uncomfortable conversations, and innovative ways to bridge cultural gaps, this book will help current and aspiring leaders across industries build rapport and promote constructive behaviors in a diverse work environment, resulting in organizational success.
Intercultural Competence in Organizations: A guide for leaders, educators and team players by
This book addresses one of the most critical issues facing global business leaders and the multicultural workforce - how to work and relate effectively in the intercultural contexts. Featuring examples and skill development exercises, this book will be appealing to professionals, practitioners, students, academics and policy makers in the field of international business, management and communication.
The Oxford Handbook of American Immigration and Ethnicity by
The Oxford Handbook of American Immigration and Ethnicity explores how Americans think of themselves and how science, religion, period of migration, gender, education, politics, and occupational mobility shape both this image and American life. Since the 1965 Immigration Act opened the gates to newer groups, historical writing on immigration and ethnicity has evolved over the years to include numerous immigrant sources and to provide trenchant analyses of American immigration and ethnicity. For the first time, this handbook brings together thirty leading scholars in the field to make sense of all the themes, methodologies, and trends that characterize the debate on American immigration. They examine a wide-range of topics, including pan-ethnicity, whiteness, intermarriage, bilingualism, religion, museum ethnic displays, naturalization, regional mobility, census categorization, immigration legislation and its reception, ethnicity-related crime and gang formation.