This book is written for professionals and academics who are looking for ways to help people of all sexual orientations work together creatively, productively and without prejudice. The authors examine the structure of today's workforce in relation to its sexual orientation. They explore how leaders, groups and organizations can establish a positive climate and initiate equal policies for workers.

Supervisors, project managers and CEOs should find this book useful as it deals with an emerging global reality - culturally diverse people of both genders in the workplace. The new workplace environment demands that employees be selected, evaluated and promoted on the basis of performance competency, regardless of sex, race, religion or place of origin. Focusing on workplace diversity instead of concepts of majority and minority allows managers to offer all personnel equal opportunities. Affirmative action is now aimed at developing human potential.

How has cultural diversity affected the business climate of the growing European Union? What are European institutions and enterprises doing to manage it? This study gathers issue-centred perspectives on how Europe's entwined past, present, and future have made it the most strikingly diverse part of the world and what this means for doing business there. It provides insights into Europe's cultural challenges of globalization, diversity dilemmas, and opportunities, as well as case studies, best practices, and resources for finding the common ground and developing the competence needed to...