2006
Symposium: The World is Flat: Implications for
Diversity Management
On
August 3, 2006, The ALLIANCE (a collaboration between
the American Institute for Managing Diversity and the Diversity Collegium) hosted a special symposium on the topic: The World
is Flat: Implications for Diversity Management.
The
forum brought together approximately 50 diversity practitioners, human resource
professionals, business leaders and academicians at the world headquarters of
Kraft Foods, Inc. in
Informed
by a video tutorial of the precepts of Thomas Friedman's seminal work, The
World is Flat, participants explored through a series of small group
discussions and open space technology processes the following:
·
Dynamics
of a flattening world,
·
Diversity
management implications for countries, companies and individuals, and
·
Ways
to apply the results of the dialogue to build effective relationships across
differences.
This
event and the report were made possible by the generous sponsorship of Kraft
Foods, Weyerhaeuser and Tyson. The program designers and facilitators
were Collegium members, Kay Iwata, Alan Richter and
Ed Hubbard. The report writer for the
Symposium was Olivet Jones.
Download
your copy of the two reports from this Symposium by clicking on the following
links:
Proceedings Report,
the Executive Summary of the proceedings report
These reports are
also available on the or American Institute for Managing Diversity’s Website, www.aimd.org, click on Resources.