The Minority Experience
eBook - ePub

The Minority Experience

Navigating Emotional and Organizational Realities

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Minority Experience

Navigating Emotional and Organizational Realities

About this book

It's hard to be in the minority.If you're the only person from your ethnic or cultural background in your organization or team, you probably know what it's like to be misunderstood or marginalized. You might find yourself inadvertently overlooked or actively silenced. Even when a work environment is not blatantly racist or hostile, people of color often struggle to thrive—and may end up leaving the organization.Being a minority is not just about numbers. It's about understanding pain, power, and the impact of the past. Organizational consultant Adrian Pei describes key challenges ethnic minorities face in majority-culture organizations. He unpacks how historical forces shape contemporary realities, and what both minority and majority cultures need to know in order to work together fruitfully. If you're a cultural minority working in a majority culture organization, or if you're a majority culture supervisor of people from other backgrounds, learn the dynamics at work. And be encouraged that you can help make things better so that all can flourish.

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Information

Publisher
IVP
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9780830845484

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction: What Is a Minority?
  7. Part One: Understanding the Minority Experience
  8. Part Two: Redeeming the Minority Experience
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Study Guide
  11. Notes
  12. Name and Subject Index
  13. Scripture Index
  14. Praise for The Minority Experience
  15. About the Author
  16. More Titles from InterVarsity Press
  17. Copyright