Managing a Diverse Workforce

Now in its Second Edition, Managing a Diverse Workforce continues to provide a complete and comprehensive set of learning activities that address issues related to workplace diversity. Participation in these exercises leads to a greater appreciation of the wide range of issues that arise when people classify themselves or are classified by others as members of different groups, on whatever basis. Over half of the 30 learning activities are new to this Second Edition.

Gary N. Powell, Ph.D., is Professor of Management and Ackerman Scholar at the University of Connecticut. He is a recognized scholar on gender and diversity issues in the workplace. He is editor of Handbook of Gender and Work, author of two earlier editions of Women and Men in Management, and author of Gender and Diversity in the Workplace: Learning Activities and Exercises. His graduate course on women and men in management won the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business Committee on Equal Opportunity for Women Innovation Award and first led to the writing of this book. He has received the University of Connecticut President’s Award for Promoting Multiculturalism.

He is a former Chair, Program Chair, and Executive Committee member of the Women in Management (now Gender and Diversity in Organizations) Division of the Academy of Management, and received both the Janet Chusmir Service Award for his contributions to the division and the Sage Scholarship Award for his contributions to research on gender in organizations. He has published numerous articles in journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and presented numerous papers at academic meetings. He has served on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management and is a Past President, Program Chair, and Fellow of the Eastern Academy of Management. He also is a former Co-Chair of the Status of Minorities Task Force of the Academy of Management and has served on the Editorial Board of Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Executive, and Journal of Management.

Prior to joining the faculty at UConn, he worked at General Electric, graduating from its Manufacturing Management Program. At GE, he designed and implemented automated project scheduling systems as well as systems for inventory control, materials procurement, and so on. He has provided management training and development for many companies, including The Hartford Financial Services Group, The Implementation Partners (TIP), GE-Capital, General Signal, Apple Computer, Monroe Auto Equipment, All State, and CIGNA, and has conducted numerous other workshops. He holds a doctorate in organizational behavior and a master’s degree in management science from the University of Massachusetts, and a bachelor’s degree in management from MIT.