World Class Diversity Management

Part ITHE FOUR QUADRANTS MODEL: INTRODUCTION

My consulting colleagues and I have been using the Four Quadrants Model for at least ten years. At first, we spoke of it as a way to capture and differentiate the various approaches to diversity. More recently, we have come to see the four quadrants as representing the four core fundamental diversity management strategies for addressing collective mixtures characterized by differences and similarities, and their related tensions and complexities. I believe that all approaches to diversity fall into one of these core strategies: Managing Workforce Representation, Managing Workforce Relationships, Managing Diverse Talent, and Managing All Strategic Diversity Mixtures.

We have dug more deeply into these ...