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Item What's Your Style? Individual Leadership and Diversity Management(2019-12) Bluth, Nicole; Leeds, SanfordSteady and substantial demographic changes have affected organizations, including the increasing presence of women, racial minorities, and immigrants in the workplace and in client and customer populations (Abella, 1984; Towers Perrin and The Hudson Institute, 1990). The issue of managing a diverse workforce is increasingly gaining recognition as an important topic of research and theorizing (Konrad, 2003). However, not much research exists regarding the combination of tailored styles of leadership and its application to different demographic groups. By analyzing themes regarding the adaptation of leaders to the differences among their subordinates, we can gain greater insight into improving diverse workplaces. A large discrepancy exists between the intervention as proposed in the theoretical literature and what actually happens in the workplace under the name of managing diversity. Diversity programs are frequently limited to awareness or skill-building training. Diversity management practices vary widely, and the results of these programs are rarely measured and evaluated (Agocs and Burr, 1996). Ultimately, this thesis is necessary for understanding the connections of (individual) leadership methods and diversity in the workplace. Through a series of structured, qualitative, and richly descriptive interviews of a broad set of leaders from varied industries, organizational levels, and demographic backgrounds, this thesis is an attempt to investigate what those connections might be. Analysis of the qualitative data will find themes of how to tailor (or not) leadership styles to diversity in one’s teams or units within an organization.