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Managing diversity using a strategic planned change approach

Earnest Friday, Shawnta S. Friday
The Authors
Earnest Friday, Management in the College of Business Administration, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA
Shawnta S. Friday, School of Business and Industry at Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
Abstract
Many organizations have implemented various types of initiatives within the last few decades in an effort to deal with diversity. A possible missing vinculum (link) between how an organization deals with diversity and its impact on the bottomline is a corporate diversity strategy that is executed using a planned change approach to systemically manage diversity. While many organizations have implemented a corporate diversity strategy, most have not used a "planned change-corporate diversity strategy". The lack of a "planned change-corporate diversity strategy" is quite likely to inhibit managing diversity from becoming systemic to an......

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