Lexington Books Demographic Differences in Organizations: Current Research and Future Directions

Although diversity is the current buzzword in management theory, we still have only a slight understanding of how demographic differences within organizations influence individuals' attitudes and behavior toward each other and the organization as a whole. Demographic Differences in Organizations fills this void. Meticulously researched and authored by two respected scholars-one working in this country, the other in Hong Kong-this book addresses the problems and benefits associated with an increasingly diverse global workforce. Unlike most other researchers in the field, Anne Tsui and Barbara Gutek are interested in the effects of demographic diversity on all members of an organization, not just minority or newly arrived groups. This broad-based, highly readable study should be read by managers, academics in business management and social psychology, and students of business at the undergraduate and graduate level. Review The authors provide significant insights on the impact of diversity on both majority and minority group members. . . . This well-researched treatise is recommended for upper-divisino undergraduate through professional collections.--T. Gutteridge, University of Connecticut "CHOICE " I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in organizational inequality. Its broad theoretical lens will help readers to see the similarity and the distinction between different bases of categorization and identification.--Donald Tomaskovic-Devey "Work and Occupations " About the Author Anne S. Tsui is Head of the Department of Management and Organizations at the School of Business and Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is the editor of the Academy of Management Journal. Barbara A. Gutek is Head of the Department of Management and Policy at the University of Arizona.