CEO SERVICES
Consulting-Educational-Organizational Services
Diversity and Cultural Competence Projects
Diversity in Mind and in Action by Jean Lau Chin
Diversity is both a state of mind and a stance of action.
How we conduct ourselves as responsible citizens, and how we practice as ethical professionals amidst growing diversity in our communities and society is centra. Diversity in Mind and in Action, addresses the difficult questions. How do we grapple with inequity in our institutions and workplaces? How do we honor our multiple identities? How do we confront the adverse consequences of privilege and power that favor some groups while oppressing others? How do we transform the bias in our minds and actions that lead to disparities and incompetence in the delivery of services? How do we recognize our interdependence within a global society?
Promoting cultural diversity across all domains is addressed in this one-stop source for the latest research, developments, and updates. Addressing social privilege and oppression and all dimensions of diversity is necessary for promoting inclusive well-being and equity and advancing in our 21st century.
Series: Race and Ethnicity in Psychology, 2009; ISBN 10: 0-313-34707-7; ISBN 13: 978-0-313-34707-8
Diversity and Leadership by Jean Lau Chin and Joseph Trimble
Promoting diversity in organization is simply good business. To be responsive to diverse customers and diverse staff given our growing diversity globally and rapid societal changes means effective leadership to achieve shared goals. A new paradigm for diversity leadership must be relevant to a diverse and global society. Chin & Trimble challenge current leadership paradigms by addressing difference, inclusiveness, cultural competence in leadership. In redefining leadership, a new Diverse Leader-Member-Organization Exchange (DLMOX) paradigm is evolving as a dynamic approach to change; it is one that recognizes relationships as well as influence, of cultural contexts as well as leaders, and of the influence of social identities and lived experience on leadership style. Effective leadership in the 21st century is changing as the digital age shifts the dominance and bases of power toward economic and interdependent outcomes. Are we ready for that change?
Chin, J. L. & Trimble, J. E. (2014) Diversity and Leadership. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishers
Culturaly Competent Clinical Services
Culturally competent services is our solution to eliminating disparities in health and health care. It is both ethical and quality care (Chin, 1999). The concept of cultural competence arose out of disappointments that attempts to promote cultural awareness in the 1960s simply failed to produce a more competent workforce and service delivery system. An emphasis on skills and competence needed to treat diverse populations is something all providers could learn (Cross, 1989).
Cultural competence, therefore, is aspirational for providers to develop the skills and systems to evolve to competent serve diverse populations. An attention to culture and contexts can hopefully dispel bias and eliminate disparities in our service delivery system. We need a paradigm shift toward inclusiveness of all groups--privileged and marginalized, dominant and minority--in order to enrich the lives of all citizens, prepare our leaders of tomorrow, provide competent services to all communities, and create diverse workplaces and institutions that empower all to share in a just and humane society.