Strategic Diversity Leadership: The Role of Senior Leaders in Delivering the Diversity Dividend

An organization’s senior leaders, given their positions at the apex of power within the organization, shape its vision, strategies, organizational design, and culture. Yet the research on diversity has not sufficiently held them to account for the dynamics of demographic diversity and inclusion within their organizations and for producing performance benefits from diversity. This paper proposes that a fuller understanding of diversity and inclusion requires a focus on senior leaders’ roles in diversity leadership. Specifically, drawing on strategic leadership theory, it proposes a framework for strategic diversity leadership that focuses on the role of senior leaders in shaping the meaning of diversity in their organizations. It proposes that how senior leaders envision diversity within their organizations and symbolize its value in their communications and actions affects the extent and nature of diversity and inclusion, and through them a range of benefits to organizational performance. It also discusses potential antecedents affecting strategic diversity leadership and calls for the development of a theory of strategic diversity leadership.

The Observational Socio-Economic Study and Impact on the International Innovative Leadership in the United States

This paper summarizes how socio-economic study has impact on the international innovative leadership in the United States. This article includes the review will focus and examine literature and theories related to public policy organizational effectiveness as well as diversity leadership. Online databases including search engines located relevant books, journals, articles, and dissertations. The search terms used were descriptive of various themes such as diversity, diversity leadership, public policy and public policy leadership, organizational leadership, public policy and leadership, cultural diversity, organizational effectiveness, and public policy effectiveness. Additionally, measurements of public policy organizations effectiveness have been narrowly focused on past practice failing to include multiple organizational aspects similar to other professional organizations. Prior studies have been conducted in relationship to the effects of diversity leadership and leadership although related solely to the individual officer or the public policy organization. Notwithstanding, studies have been sparse which suggest that diversity leadership initiatives or enhanced leadership, increase public effectiveness, let alone collectively. Limited studies are not the case concerning public policy. This study attempted to fill this gap by examining if leadership of public policy outcomes of diversity leadership initiatives and the level of leadership predicts public policy organizational effectiveness. All of these terms have assisted in locating contemporary and relevant research. The results of the critical review article with analysis both authors can be useful for any leaderships around the World to support social-economics changes. Keywords: socio-economic, innovation, leadership, education, public policy.