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Managing And Valuing Diversity: Challenges To Public Managers In The Twenty-First Century. Paper/Presentation, Andrew Ewoh

Andrew I.E. Ewoh

Over the past three decades the need for private and public organizations to embrace diversity has been echoed. The rationale for this need is that a number of desirable positive outcomes occur when groups or work teams include diverse perspectives and value that diversity. Diversity as a new lexicon in human resource management provides immediate access to a large pool of knowledge, skills, and abilities required in the accomplishment of organizational goals and objectives. The major challenge to employers of labor is managing and valuing diversity by transforming the traditional culture of most organizations into a multicultural culture that nurtures …