Given the increasingly diverse workforce and globalization of business today, managers must have a strong passion for diversity to succeed in engaging diverse employees, business partners across cultures, and globally dispersed customers. In fact, passion for diversity was named as one of the 9 essential dimensions of global leadership in an ongoing Global Mindset study that includes more than 22,000 leaders around the world. Learn how you can play a pivotal role in developing passion for diversity in your organization in ways that make an effective impact on both dispositions and behaviors, discuss research findings that define passion for diversity, and provide practical suggestions to assess and develop it in your organization.
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Mansour Javidan
director of Najafi Global Mindset Institute
Thunderbird School of Global Management
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Multiple award-winning executive educator and author whose teaching and research interests span the globe, Dr. Mansour Javidan received his MBA and Ph.D. degrees from the Carlson School at the University of Minnesota. He is former Dean of Research at Thunderbird School of Global Management and is currently the Garvin Distinguished Professor and Founding Director of the Najafi Global Mindset Institute.
Mansour is the Past President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the worldrenowned research project on executive performance and leadership, titled GLOBE (Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness). As the primary editor and writer of the recently published GLOBE book, he is the co-principal investigator of the GLOBE Phase 3 research program. The book was the recent winner of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology’s (SIOP) award competition for “The M. Scott Myers Award for Applied Research in The Workplace.”
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