What is it about?
To better understand the new leadership challenges that diversity is bringing to organizations, the American Psychological Association awarded an Interdivisional Grant to conduct a 1-day Leadership Diversity Summit (LDS).
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Why is it important?
Overall, leaders felt that accountability in creating organizations with diverse representation hadto be embedded in all organizational processes and remain the responsibility of all leaders in the workforce today.
Perspectives
Four competencies with 16 dimensions emerged from the coding of the transcripts from the LDS (a) leveraging personal and social identities, (b) utilizing a global and diverse mindset, (c) leveraging community and organizational contexts, and (d) promoting a diversity-supportive and inclusive climate. These competencies and dimensions were viewed by our diverse leaders as important for effective leadership. A discussion of the competency framework.
Dr. Lyne Desormeaux
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This page is a summary of: Making way for paradigms of diversity leadership., Consulting Psychology Journal Practice and Research, March 2016, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/cpb0000051.
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