NEWS

• The Paradox of Latino Leaders: Marshall Goldsmith interviews me for his regular column on BusinessWeek.com, Marshall & Friends, July 15, 2008.

• The Diversity Collegium, a think tank of diversity practitioners and thought leaders that has an alliance  and holds joint programs with the American Institute for Managing Diversity, invited me to join as one of its newest members, in February 2008.

• In March 2008, DiversityCentral.com  featured an article on my ideas and work on inclusion. The article is titled "So you have cultural diversity, now what? The tools and theories of inclusion", and is currently available for free. (Once a new article is posted, this one will be available through DiversityCentral's archives.)

• On July 11, 2008, I was a keynote speaker and discussion facilitator at Teaching and Training Workplace Diversity: Bridging the Research-Practice Gap, a conference sponsored by George Mason University to explore the latest research and best practices in diversity business education and training. My keynote address was titled "On the shoulders of giants? The role of scholarship and research in diversity teaching and training," and I also facilitated a discussion on the question: What should be the goals for diversity classes and training?

• One June 26, 2008, I conducted a workshop for the San Diego Chapter of the National Society of Hispanic MBAs (NSHMBA) on ''Identity Orientations of Latinos in the United States; Implications for Leaders and Organizations''. (Click for the press release.)

• On April 25, 2008, I was a presenter at the 5th Hispanic Executive Summit sponsored by the National Society of Hispanic MBAs (NSHMBA), in Anaheim, CA. My session was titled "Finding and Using One's Own Voice in Managing Conflict and Pushback."

• The Institute for Inclusion held its second conference -- Inclusion: The Big Idea! -- in Washington DC on March 2 and 3, 2008.  I've been working with the Institute since it started; I served on the committee that produced the Inclusion Principles, and will be chairing the group working to develop a set of key Inclusive Behaviors.

• I am thrilled to be working with Ascent-Leading Multicultural Women to the Top, a new national, not-for-profit organization founded by Dr. Ella L. J. Bell and dedicated to supporting multicultural women in their professional development and corporate career advancement. In February, I taught in the first Mastering Management Program, for women in middle management. The workshop I did in the program was Becoming a Diplomatic Warrior: Speaking Up, Pushing Back, and Engaging in Conflict at Work Authentically, Effectively, and Productively.

• In August 2007, I was honored to serve as lead co-facilitator for CaliforniaSpeaks, a statewide discussion to evaluate proposals to reform healthcare in California. (In June 2008, I joined AmericaSpeaks as an Associate.) Click here to watch all or part of the webcast of the event, which included over 3500 people in 8 sites across California. Click here to watch an excellent and moving 9-minute overview and summary of the event.

Photos from CaliforniaSpeaks:

Welcoming Fabian Núñez, Speaker of the California State Assembly, to the stage.

 

On stage with Carolyn Lukensmeyer, lead co-facilitator and President and Founder of AmericaSpeaks.

• Click here to read my interview and my column on inclusion published throughout 2007 in The San Diego Psychologist.

• Click here to read my profile in the Carmel Valley News, published 3/15/2007.

• On April 28, 2007, I chaired an invited panel discussion at the 22nd annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology titled Working on the Edge: I-O Psychology and Marginalized Workers. The distinguished panelists were Josep Blanch, Dov Eden, and Ellen Kossek. Click here to go to the resource page for that session. On April 11, 2008, at the SIOP conference in San Francisco, Douglas Maynard and I facilitated a roundtable The Marginalized Workforce: How I-O Psychology Can Make a Difference to follow up on the 2007 session.

• Division 45 of the American Psychological Association (Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues) nominated me as a candidate for President-elect in 2007. Click here to read my election statement. (The election was held from April to June 2007.)

• These will be some of my presentations at the Academy of Management Annual Conference in Anaheim, California, in August 2008:

  • ¿Quién Soy? ¿Quiénes Somos? Latino/a Life Stories and the Questions We Ask and Don't Ask. (PDW, with Mónica Gavino, Plácida Gallegos, Carlos González, Rowena Ortiz-Walters, & Robin Johnson).

  • In support of shared sisterhood: Creating a space for the questions we need to ask. (PDW chaired by Stacy Blake-Beard).

  • Teaching diversity in multiple contexts and creating a diversity minor. (PDW chaired by Myrtle Bell).

• These were my presentations at the Academy of Management Annual Conference in Philadelphia in August 2007:

  • Principles of Mindful, Inclusive Leadership: A Philadelphia Experience (PDW, with Ilene Wasserman and Plácida Gallegos).

  • Raising our Expertise in Chairing Dissertations: Learning from One Another (PDW, with Kathryn Goldman Schuyler, Lee Robbins, David A. Whetten, Jerome Katz, Mark P Kriger, and Antoinette Swayne-Kohlman)

  • Workgroup Inclusion, Diversity, and Performance (Interactive Paper, with Avi Avigdor, Deborah Braun, Jennifer Konkin, and Daniel Kuzmycz -- all doctoral students in Alliant's PhD Program in Consulting Psychology)

  • Discussant, Mentoring within Diverse Ethnic and Sexual Identity Relationships, GDO Paper Session.

• On April 4, 2008, I presented a workshop (with Rebecca Turner) at the Annual Convention of the California Psychological Association titled The role of psychology in leadership development: Then and now.

• On October 22, 2007, I gave the keynote address, Inclusão em organizações e grupos de trabalho diversos: Visões a partir da teoria, pesquisa e prática [Inclusion in diverse organizations and workgroups: Insights from theory, research, and practice]. at "I Fórum de Diversidade–Diálogos sobre Diversidade e Inclusão: Experiências Acadêmicas e Empresariais" [1st Diversity Forum—Dialogues on Diversity and Inclusion: Academic and Business Experiences], at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, São Paulo, Brazil.

• Marshall Goldsmith presents me with the Outstanding International Scholar-Practitioner Award on behalf of the Marshall Goldsmith School of Management at Alliant International University (November 2006):

CURRENT and RECENT RESEARCH

• Inclusion at Work: I  have been working on a series of studies focusing on people's sense of connection to their work and their workgroup, and the factors associated with that experience. In these studies, we are developing and continuing to refine the Workgroup Inclusion Scale. We are currently interested in partnering with organizations that wish to participate in these studies. For more information on what is involved, including the benefits to the participating organizations, please see the following document:  PROSPECTUS - STUDY OF INCLUSION AND PERFORMANCE

• I continue to collaborate with Dr. Darcy Hanashiro of Mackenzie University in São Paulo and Dr. Cláudio Torres of Universidade de Brasilia, to investigate the experience of inclusion and inclusive behavior in Brazil.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (click on the links for PDF versions)

• Ferdman, B. M. (4 essays on inclusion in The San Diego Psychologist, throughout 2007):

  • Click here to download the full set of essays

• Wasserman, I. C., Gallegos, P. V., & Ferdman, B. M. (2008). Dancing with resistance: Leadership challenges in fostering a culture of inclusion. In K. M. Thomas (Ed.), Diversity resistance in organizations (pp. 175-200). New York: Taylor and Francis.

• Gallegos, P. V. & Ferdman, B. M. (2007). Identity orientations of Latinos in the United States: Implications for leaders and organizations. Business Journal of Hispanic Research, 1 (1), 26-41.

• Holvino, E., Ferdman, B. M., & Merrill-Sands, D. (2004). Creating and sustaining diversity and inclusion in organizations: Strategies and approaches. In M. S. Stockdale & F. J. Crosby (Eds.), The psychology and management of workplace diversity (pp. 245-276). Malden, MA: Blackwell.

•  Ferdman, B. M. (2003). Key principles for building diversity and inclusion. The California Psychologist, 36(6), 11-12.

• Ferdman, B. M. (2003). Learning about our and others' selves: Multiple identities and their sources. In N. Boyacigiller, R. Goodman, & M. Phillips (Eds.), Crossing cultures: Insights from master teachers (pp. 49-61). London: Routledge.

·         Ferdman, B. M. & Davidson, M. N. A matter of difference. (8 articles focusing on diversity and inclusion in The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, 2001 to 2004):

o        List of articles, bibliographic references, and links

o        The full set of articles

• Ferdman, B.M. & Gallegos, P. I. (2001). Latinos and racial identity development. In C. L. Wijeyesinghe & B. W. Jackson III (Eds.), New perspectives on racial identity development: A theoretical and practical anthology (pp. 32-66). New York: New York University Press.

• Ferdman, B. M. & Horenczyk, G. (2000). Cultural identity and immigration: Reconstructing the group during cultural transitions. In E. Olshtain & G. Horenczyk (Eds.), Language, identity, and immigration (pp. 81-100). Jerusalem: Hebrew University Magnes Press.

• Ferdman, B. M. (1999). The color and culture of gender in organizations: Attending to race and ethnicity. In G. N. Powell (Ed.), Handbook of gender and work (pp. 17-34). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

• Ferdman, B. M. (1997). Values about fairness in the ethnically diverse workplace. [Special Issue: Managing in a global context: Diversity and cross-cultural challenges]. Business and the Contemporary World: An International Journal of Business, Economics, and Social Policy, 9, 191-208.

• Ferdman, B. M. & Gallegos, P. I. (1997). Crossing borders. In J. R. Schermerhorn, Jr., J. G. Hunt, & R. N. Osborn, Organizational behavior, 6th ed. (pp. 434-435). New York: John Wiley & Sons. [Abridged version of Ferdman & Gallegos, 1996.]

• Ferdman, B. M. & Brody, S. E. (1996). Models of diversity training. In D. Landis & R. Bhagat (Eds.), Handbook of intercultural training, 2nd Ed. (pp. 282-303). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

• Ferdman, B. M. & Gallegos, P. I. (1996). Crossing borders: The experience of a Mexican American HR manager in a maquiladora. In E. E. Kossek, S. A. Lobel, & R. Oh (Eds.), Managing diversity: Human resource strategies for transforming the workplace. A field guide (pp. 1-23). Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.

• Ferdman, B. M. & Gallegos, P. I. (1996). Crossing borders at a maquiladora: Lessons learned from an HR manager's experiences. In At the frontier of managing diversity: Integrating practice and research (Proceedings of the 1995 AIMD Global Conference on Managing Diversity). Atlanta, GA: American Institute for Managing Diversity.

• Ferdman, B. M. (1995). Cultural identity and diversity in organizations: Bridging the gap between group differences and individual uniqueness. In M. M. Chemers, S. Oskamp, & M. A. Costanzo, (Eds.), Diversity in organizations: New perspectives for a changing workplace (pp. 37-61). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

• Ferdman, B. M. & Cortes, A. (1992). Culture and identity among Hispanic managers in an Anglo business. In S. B. Knouse, P. Rosenfeld & A. Culbertson (Eds.), Hispanics in the workplace (pp. 246-277). Newbury Park: Sage.

• Ferdman, B. M. (1992). The dynamics of ethnic diversity in organizations: Toward integrative models. In K. Kelley (Ed.), Issues, theory and research in industrial/organizational psychology (pp. 339-384). Amsterdam: North Holland. [Awarded the 1991 Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Division 9 of the American Psychological Association].

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