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Diverse workforce requires eclectic leadership strategies.
Many more women and people of color have joined the workforce over the past decade, and by 2008 they will be about 70% of the workers. That shift calls for a major reconsideration of leadership strategies and multi-ethnic perspectives.
Dr. Vanessa P. Girard and Tawn Hauptli explored how increasingly diverse work environments, when properly managed, can contribute to the overall health of an organization and its members. Complexities of multi-ethnic environments and diversity demand eclectic leadership and non-traditional perspectives.
Their study of leadership styles and perceptions in diverse communities was a topic at the annual conference of the National Institute for Leadership Development (NILD) and the American Association for Women in Community Colleges (AAWCC) in June 2004 in Phoenix.
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They interviewed 20 successful leaders (11 women and 9 men) chosen by convenience and snowball sampling. Participants were of six ethnicities and varied in age, education and work experience.
Four recurring themes
Four major themes surfaced in the 20 interviews:
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