Call for Papers
Leading Diversity in the 21st Century
Editors:
Terri A. Scandura, University of Miami and Edwin Mouriño, Rollins College
For those looking to address an increasing topic of importance challenging organizations today, we invite abstracts and papers for a new volume to be published by Information Age Publishing (www.infoagepub.com). The volume will address leader-employee relationships in the changing diverse workforce of the 21st century.
The Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) model of leadership has shown that effective leader-follower relationships predict employee well-being and performance. Less research, however, addressed how diversity variables may affect the development of leader-member exchange and outcomes. This volume will move the field forward by addressing the 21st century challenges of how diversity may impact the development of effective working relationships.
Key trends in the workforce suggest that the impact of diverse employees will challenge a leader's ability to develop effective working relationships with all direct reports. New frameworks are needed to understand how various groups such as women, Hispanics, African American, Asians, Millennials, and recent immigrants develop effective working relationships with their supervisors. This edited volume will bring together the top scholars in the field to address these segments of the workforce and offer practical advice for managers. In essence, we're looking to include articles/chapters that can enable practitioners to be more effective when it comes to leading diversity.
The objectives of this book are to:
· Highlight the state and increased importance of leader-member relationships in managing diversity;
· Highlight the different variations of diversity taking hold of society and the workplace and its importance with leader-follower relations. Examples include:
o Aging Population
o African Americans
o Asians
o Baby Boomers
o Generations at Work
o Hispanics
o LGBT
o Millennials/Entitlement
o Recent Immigrants
o Women/Gender Differences;
· The book will conclude with a chapter on what comes next as society progresses, organizations evolve, and employees continue to have higher expectations of their organizations and leaders with respect to how they address diversity.
A suggested outline for the chapters follows (other formats and coverage may be acceptable; this outline is suggested to provide some degree uniformity across the chapters).
1. Reason/rationale why this topic is relevant for the future workplace (e.g. Millenials)
2. Current state of the theoretical and empirical work on relationships and this topic (e.g., leadership and gender) -- include current labor force statistics and research
3. Challenges and opportunities for leader-member relationships for this topic
4. Future trends in relationship development for this topic
5. Considerations and recommendations for organizations and leaders.
Please send abstracts of five pages outlining your contribution to Edwin Mouriño (emourino@rollins.edu) by June 1, 2016. Complete papers are also welcome.
Abstracts/Outlines due: June 1
Decisions on papers included: July 1
Full papers due: August 20
Revised papers due: September 30
Anticipated publication date: January 2017
Selected authors will have access to a Dropbox worksite where they will be able to share their ideas and contributions on this important topic as they develop their ideas.
This is also posted here: http://www.infoagepub.com/products/Leading-Diversity-in-the-21st-Century
*Apologies* for cross-posting.
Terri A. Scandura
Professor of Management
School of Business Administration
University of Miami
www.sagepub.com/scandura