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We recommend these resources for insight and perspective into diversity, inclusion, and intercultural communications competence as a way to create meaningful business results.

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Diversity and inclusion FAQs

Diversity and inclusion solution guide

Diversity and inclusion articles and interviews

Our perspective on Business-Aligned® diversity & inclusion

Of Special Interest
Building productivity through inclusion and intercultural expertise

Diversity recruiting strategies to grow your organization

Business-Aligned® diversity training

Speaker:
Peter Bye is available as a speaker about diversity and inclusion for keynote addresses, seminars, workshops, master's classes, and other speaking services. Mr. Bye is the President of MDB Group and the former Corporate Diversity Director of AT&T. He also holds an appointment to the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) Workplace Diversity Special Expertise Panel.

Articles:
David A. Thomas and Robin J. Ely, Making Differences Matter: A New Paradigm for Managing Diversity, Harvard Business Review, September-October 1996, pp. 79-90.

David A. Thomas and Robin J. Ely, Cultural Diversity at Work: The Effects of Diversity Perspectives on Work Group Processes and Outcomes, Administrative Science Quarterly, 46 (2001), pp. 229-273.

David A. Thomas, Diversity as Strategy, Harvard Business Review, September 2004, pp. 98-108

Books:
Stella Ting-Toomey, Communicating Across Cultures, 1999, The Guilford Press, ISBN 1-57230-445-6.

Milton J. Bennett, Editor, Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication: Selected Readings, 1998, Intercultural Press, ISBN 1-877864-62-5.

Geert Hofstede and Gert Jan Hofstede, Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind, Second Edition, 2005, McGraw-Hill , ISBN 0-07-143959-5.

Taylor Cox, Jr., Cultural Diversity in Organizations: Theory, Research and Practice, 1993, San Francisco: Berrett-Kochler Publishers. ISBN 1-881052-19-2.

Marilyn Loden and Judy B. Rosener, Workforce America! Managing Employee Diversity as a Vital Resource., 1991, Chicago: Irwin Professional Publishing. ISBN 1-55623-386-8.

Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner, Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business, Second Edition, McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-7863-1125-8.

Gardenswartz and Rowe, Diverse Teams at Work: Capitalizing on the Power of Diversity, 1996 McGraw Hill Publishers.

R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr., Redefining Diversity, 1996, New York: AMACOM Publishers.

R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr. with Marjorie I. Woodruff, Building a House for Diversity: How a Fable about a Giraffe and an Elephant Offers New Strategies for Today's Workforce, 1999, New York: AMACOM Publishers.

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action Compliance:
For professional personalized assistance on all aspects of EEO and AA compliance including Affirmative Action Plans, EO surveys, EEO-1 reports, VETS100 reports, Adverse Impact Analyses, Pay Equity Risk Analyses, and discrimination complaint investigations, we suggest you contact our partner Workplace Dynamics L.L.C.

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