• business effectiveness
• ethical practices
• public relations value.

A Unique Research Basis
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GROVEWELL’s two partners have carried out original research on the internationalization of diversity for a Fortune 50 U.S. corporation.  The findings of the Diversity International And Domestic (DIAD) project were serialized in May & July 1996 in Mosaics, a newsletter of the Society for Human Resource Management, under the title "Does Diversity Travel Well? It Depends...."  To read the entire serialized article, click here.

DIAD’s findings have been presented at national conferences as a simulation exercise or featured address.  For example, Dr. Grove was the keynote speaker at the Seventh Annual Managing Diversity in the Workplace Conference (1998): "Now Arriving: Globalization, The New Diversity Challenge."
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Ten Fundamental Questions
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GROVEWELL has Ten Fundamental Questions to guide a company's search for clarity about the globalization of diversity; these questions address possible actions and reactions in the U.S. and abroad.  Answers can be arrived at with confidence if decision-makers have information, objectively gathered, about overseas business effectiveness, ethical practices, and public relations value vis-à-vis the concepts and processes of diversity.  GROVEWELL can assist in gathering and analyzing this data.

Assuming that the client firm decides to extend its diversity policies, practices, and initiatives to its non-U.S. operations, the next step is to carefully plan the extent to which, and the procedures by which, this will be done over the next months and years.  GROVEWELL's consulting assistance focuses on enabling its client firm to develop a culturally calibrated and operationally effective plan.
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Globalization of Diversity Services
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Broadly construed, GROVEWELL's services encompass...

• Introducing decision-makers to the Ten Fundamental Questions and supporting them towards a decision on whether globalization of diversity, in the U.S. and abroad, positively promotes business effectiveness, ethical practices, and favorable public relations outcomes.
• Arranging dialogues and planning sessions abroad in ways that insure that local feedback and reactions are accurately gathered and that U.S. domination of idea-exchanges is avoided.
• Guiding the process toward development of practical, culturally appropriate plans; recommending internal/external communications procedures to support the plans; and participating as requested in implementing those plans for globalizing diversity.
• Insuring that the long-term outcome of the entire effort leads to local commitment, not merely to acquiescence, and yields enduring value for both the U.S. firm and its local venture or partner.

Additional Information
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GROVEWELL offers these services in partnership with the Consortium for Global Understanding.  For partnership details, visit Grovewell-global.com.

For additional information regarding GROVEWELL's understanding of and approach to the globalization of diversity, click here.

To obtain specific information, or to inquire about engaging GROVEWELL's services, contact info@grovewell.com.
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