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Summary: More than Diversity
Review: I initially purchased this book as an assigned reading for a masters course in Organizational Management. My inital preconception was less than favorable, as I had not signed up for the class to learn about diversity, but to better understand the barriers to organizational change. What I found from Loden and Roesener was a focus on four areas -- sterotyping, poor communications, collusion, and culture clash -- which I found very useful in meeting my personal objectives for the course. On the issue of sterotyping, the author's talk about primary and secondary dimensions that affect our percptions of people. These translate into obstacles in commucation. The authors also write about collusion: how individual action or inaction affects the organizational staus quo and inhibits change. The book is well-written and easy to read. This book will no doubt meet the needs of creating a better understanding of workplace diversity from a human resources perspective, as well as provide a deeper understanding of the dynamics of organizational management.
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Summary: The Worst
Review: This is the worst book I have EVER read. The entire book can be condensed into three or four platitudes, which are all faulty. The logic that valuing diversity is intuitive is ridiculous. History will bear out the fact that this inevitable social revolution never happened, and probably never will, at least the way the authors believe. There is one good chapter however. That is Chapter 5, Decoding Garbled Communication. This is helpful but the rest of the book was dreadful. The only thing more boring was Stephen Ambrose's book about Lewis and Clark.
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