Seminar: Public Personnel Administration

Outside Reading List

1. Blank, Renee. "Voices of Diversity: real people talk about problems and solutions in aworkplace where everyone is not alike." New York: Amacom, 1994. HF5549.5.M5B55 1994.

2. Chemers, Martin A., Stuart Oskamp, and Mark A. Costanzo, eds. "Diversity in Organizations New Perspectives for a changing workplace." Thousand Oaks, CA: SagePublications, 1995. 9 chapters, strong psycholgy or organizational behavior focus.

3. Cose, Ellis. Color-Blind Seeing Beyond Race in a Race-Obsesses World. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.

4. ---. The rage of a privileged class. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.
Cose wanted to provoke discussion about the rage and anger of black professionals. Women of all colors also responded with recognition of the issues raised. E185.86.C5883 1993.

5. Cox, Jr Taylor. Cultural Diversity in Organizations Theory, Research and Practice. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1993. While more focused on private organizations, Cox uses three levels of analysis, the individual, the group, rhe organization, to develop his theory of cultural diversity in the workplace. His focus weaves theory and research in a focus on change. HM131.C749 1993.

6. Gentile, Mary C., ed. "Differences that work: organizational excellence through diversity." Boston: Harvard Business School Pub, 1994. HD58.9.D54 1994.

7. Golembiewski, Robert T. Managing diversity in organizations. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1995. HHF5549.5M5G65 1995.

8. Henderson, George. Cultural diversity in the workplace: issues and strategies. Westport, Conn: Quorum Books, 1994. HF5549.5.M5 H46 1994.

9. Hochschild, Jennifer L. Facing Up to the American Dream Race, Class and the Soul of the Nation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. Hochschild uses poll data, policy studies and journalism to examine the question in the title. She shows that "shared disaffections and hardening black and white views of each other threaten to rend the nations's social fabric.".

10. Mendenhall, Mark, and Gary Oddou, eds. "Readings and Cases in international human resource management." Cincinnati: South-Western College Pub, 1995. HF5549.R3813 1995.


13. Sheppard, Blair H. Organizational justice: the search for fairness in the workplace. New York: Lexington Books, 1992. Author sees audience as thinking managers. A philosophical reflection. HD58.7.S52 1992.

14. Stivers, Camilla. Gender images in public administration: legitimacy and the administrative state. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1993.
HQ1391.U5S75 1993.

15. Taylor, Charles. "Multiculturalism and the Politics of Recognition." Amy Gutmann, Steven C. Rockefeller, Michael Walzer, et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.
A discussion of the issues surrounding multiculturalism from a philosophical perspective.

16. Winfield, Liz. Straight talk about gays in the workplace: creating an inclusive productive environment for everyone in your organization. New York: AMACOM, 1995.
HD6285.W56 1995.