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Suggested Reading List

Suggested Videos

Diversity Resources

"Our Strength is Our Diversity!"

Suggested Reading List

1. Managing Diversity: Toward a Globally Inclusive Workplace
By Michalle E. Mor Barak (2005)

2. From the Outside In: Seven Strategies for Success When You're Not a Member
of the Dominant Group in Your Workplace
By Renee Blank, Sandra Slipp, Vincent Ford (2005)

3. Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling: Career Strategies for Asians.
By Jany Hyun (2005)

4. Understanding Disability: Inclusion, Access, Diversity and Civil Rights
By Paul T. Jaeger, Cynthia Ann Bowman (2005)

5. Trainer’s Diversity Source Book: 50 Ready-to-Use Activities from Icebreakers through Wrap Ups
By Jonamay Lambert and Zelma Myers (2005)

6. Building on the Promise of Diversity: How We Can Move to the Next Level in Our Workplaces, Our Communities, and Our Society
By Roosevelt Thomas (2005)

7. Straight Talk about Gays in the Workplace: Creating an Inclusive, Productive Environment for Everyone in Your Organization
By Liz Winfeld (2005)

8. Enlightened Power: How Women Are Transforming the Practice of Leadership.
By Lin Coughlin (Editor) Ellen Wingard (Editor) Keith Hollihan (2005)

9. Understanding and Managing Diversity
By Carole Harvey, M. June Allard (2004)

10. Making Diversity Work
By Norma Carr-Ruffino (2004)

11. Managing People across Cultures
By Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner (2004)

12. He Said, She Said: Exploring the Different Ways Men and Women Communicate
By Deborah Tannen (2004)

13. Diversity Consciousness: Opening Our Minds to People, Cultures, and Opportunities
By Barry F. Kavanagh, Patricia L. Bucher (April 2003)

14. When Generations Collide: Who They Are, Why They Clash, How to Solve
the Generational Puzzle at Work
By Lynne C. Lancaster and David Stillman (2003)

15. Making Diversity Work: Seven Steps for Defeating Bias in the Workplace
By Sondra Thiederman (2003)

16. Cultural Diversity In Health and Illness.
By Rachel Spector (2003)

17. Diverse Teams at Work: Capitalizing on the Power of Diversity
By Lee Gardenswartz, Anita Rowe (2003)

18. Psychology and Management of Workplace Diversity
By Margaret S. Stockdale, Faye J. Crosby (Editor) (2003)

19. Managing Cultural Diversity in Technical Profession
By Lionel PH.D Laroche (2002)

20. Making Gay History. The Half Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights.
By Eric Marcus (2002)

21. Latinos: Remaking America.
By Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco and Mariela M. Paez (2002)

22. Mentoring and Diversity
By David Clutterbuck and Belle Rose Ragins (2002)

23. Cultural Competence in Health Care: A Practical Guide.
Anne K Knights Rundle (Editor), Mary R. Robison (Editor) Maria L. Carvalho (2002)

24. Inclusion Breakthrough: Unleashing the Real Power of Diversity
By Frederick A. Miller, Judith H. Katz (2002)

25. Standing at the Crossroads; Next Steps for High Achieving Women
By Marian N. Ruderman, Patricia J. Ohlott (2002)

26. The Diversity Training Handbook: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Changing Attitude
By Phil Edward Clements, John Jones (2002)

27. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race
By Beverly Daniel Tatum (2002)

28. Harvard Business Review on Managing Diversity
By R.Roosevelt Thomas, David A. Thomas, Robert Schrank, Robin J. Ely, Joyce K. Fletcher (2001)

29. Creating the Multicultural Organizational A Strategy for Capturing the Power of Diversity
By Taylor Cox (2001)

30. The Diversity Action Book
By Janet Crenshaw Smith (2001)

31. What Ethnic Americans Really Think
By Dr. James Zogby (2001)

32. Cracking the Corporate Code From Survival to Mastery: What does it takes to be black and successful in corporate America?
By Price M. Cobbs, M.D. and Judith L. Turnock, Esq. ( 2000)

33. Spirituality In the Workplace: A guide for adapting to the chaotically changing workplace
By William A. Gullory, Ph.D. (2000)

34. Generations at Work: Managing the Clash of Veterans, Boomers, Xers,
Nexters in Your Workplace
By Ron Zemke, Claire Raines and Bob Filipczak (2000)

35. Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executive in Corporate America
By David A. Thomas, John J. Gabarro, Don Tapscott (1999)

36. Building a House for Diversity: A fable about giraffe and an elephant offers new strategies for today's workforce
By R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr., with Marjorie I. Woodruff (1999)

37. Implementing Diversity Best Practices for Making Diversity Work in Your Organization
By Marilyn Loden

38. Voices of Diversity: Real people talk about problems and solution in a workplace where everyone is not alike
By Renee Blank and Sandra Slipp (1994)

39. Beyond Race and Gender: How to manage--and benefit from--the ever-increasing diversity of the American workforce
By R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr (1992)

Suggested Diversity Videos

* As Simple as Respect: Diversity, Respect & Inclusion in the Workplace

* Dialogue – Now You’re Talking (four program series: Communicating in a Diverse World; Dialogue for Cultural Understanding; Dialogue between Genders, and Dialogue among Generations)

* Diversity Advantage Food For Thought (This video was sent to the Lead EEO Manager in each VISN this year. You may want to check with your Lead EEO Manager or Medical Center Library to obtain this video)

* Patient Diversity: Beyond the Vital Signs

* Joel Barker's Wealth, Innovation and Diversity (this video should already be at your main library in your VISN)

* The Cost of Intolerance

* Different Like You

* Quality Media Resources

* REACH for Diversity Training Video and Activities Booklet (Respect). Can be obtained through Employee Education System, VA Library Service or VISN Lead EEO Manager.

Diversity Resources

African American Federal Executive Associations

Alternatives Dispute Resolution

American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE)
(ACHE Commitment to Diversity)

Americans with Disabilities Act

Asia Society

Asian American Government Executive Network

Black Press USA

Blacks In Government

Bridges (.pdf)

Building & Maintaining a Diverse and High Quality Workforce

Business and Professional Women/USA

Center for Women Veterans

Civility at Work: 20 Ways to Build a Kinder Workplace

Clinical Cultural Competency

Computer/Electronic Accommodations Program

Coordination and Review - Civil Rights Division

Council of Federal EEO and Civil Rights Executives

Diversity Calendar

Diversity Central

Diversity Inc

Diversity Poster (.pdf)

Diversity Store

Diversity Web

Doing Business with the Federal Government

GAO Report, Diversity Management: Expert-Identified Leading Practices and Agency Examples (.pdf)

Generational Diversity

Federal Asian Pacific American Council

Federally Employed Women

HHS Women’s Health website

HireDiversity.com

HispanicBusiness.Com

IMDiversity.Com

Indian Health Service

Indian Country

Latino Internet Sites

Managing Federal Recruitment
(Highlighting best recruitment practices across the federal government.
Please share the information with your HR staff, your Nurse Recruiters, your managers, your union partners)

M.E.E.T. on Common Ground: Speaking Up for Respect in the Workplace

1) http://www.trainingabc.com/diversity.htm

2) http://www.coastal.com/google/diversity.html

Multicultural Education Links

My Healthe Vet

National Association for Equal Opportunity

National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR)

National Organization of Blacks in Government

National Organization on Disability Employment Policy

Native America:   Diversity Within Diversity Discussion Guide (.pdf format)

Native America: Diversity Within Diversity
                     (8 1/2" x 11" poster in .pdf format)
                       ( 11" X 14" poster in .pdf format)