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Assessing Organizational Diversity with the Shannon Index
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Assessing Organizational Diversity with the Shannon Index

By: Salomón Alcocer Guajardo

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This hands-on guide shows HR practitioners and researchers how to apply the Shannon diversity index to measure workplace diversity. With practical examples, it also illustrates how regression methods can assess the factors that influence age, ethnic, and gender diversity.

This book provides a comprehensive and systematic assessment of the application of Shannon’s diversity index to the workplace. It offers human resources practitioners and researchers…
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This book provides a comprehensive and systematic assessment of the application of Shannon’s diversity index to the workplace. It offers human resources practitioners and researchers in the nonprofit, private, and public sectors a hands-on guide on how to measure demographic and organizational diversity with the Shannon diversity index. Examples of the application of the diversity index to employment data are provided throughout the book, while the text also illustrates the use of ordinary least squares, robust, Tobit, and ridge regression methods to assess how organizational and workplace factors influence age, ethnic, gender, and organizational diversity.

Salomón Alcocer Guajardo, PhD, is a management consultant and researcher and formerly a Professor of Nonprofit and Public Management at several universities in the United States. He has held executive and senior management, research, and policy positions in the nonprofit and public sectors, and has published over 25 articles on budgeting, organizational diversity, and organizational performance in leading peer-reviewed and trade journals. His current research focuses on the adaptation and application of diversity indices to organizational-based employment data.

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  • ISBN: 1-5275-9434-3
  • ISBN13: 978-1-5275-9434-0
  • Date of Publication: 2023-03-16

Paperback

  • ISBN: 1-0364-2544-4
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-2544-9
  • Date of Publication: 2024-12-13

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  • ISBN: 1-5275-9435-1
  • ISBN13: 978-1-5275-9435-7
  • Date of Publication: 2024-12-13
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