From Bolted-on to Built-in: Diversity Management and Intergroup Leadership in U.S. Corporations

By: Candi Castleberry-Singleton

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Synopsis: Cultivating and managing a diverse workforce are imperatives for corporations both in the U.S., and all over the world. At the global level, business leaders clearly see that their companies need globally diverse staff to compete, and they are changing the way they do business to become more diverse. Yet progress on diversity within U.S. companies has stagnated. Why are U.S. diversity efforts stalled and what can companies do to create new momentum for domestic diversity efforts? Are there lessons to be learned from global experience with corporate diversity that can help diversity management within the U.S.? And what do these troubling findings about problems in domestic programs and success abroad teach us about the challenges of intergroup leadership? This chapter examines these questions, which are critical to companies' future success. This chapter was previously published as chapter 14 of "Crossing the Divide: Intergroup Leadership in a World of Difference."