The Diversity Advantage: How American Business Can Outperform Japanese and European Companies in the Global Marketplace. (book reviews)

This book proposes that companies that learn to effectively harness work force diversity (in religion, race, culture, ethnicity, sex, and sexual orientation) will produce more effective means and more innovative and timely solutions to quality and cost challenges, and, as a result, will compete more effectively in global markets.

The authors argue that the market advantage of effective diversity management lies in the difficulty that competitors will face in trying to imitate it. Unlike technology or financial management, which rely on transferrable technical skills, diversity ...

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