Download or read book Assessing Organizational Diversity with the Heip Index written by Salomón Alcocer Guajardo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive and systematic assessment of the application of Shannon-based diversity indices to the workplace. It offers human resources practitioners and researchers in the nonprofit, private, and public sectors a hands-on guide on how to measure demographic and organizational diversity with the Hill, Heip, Hurlbert, and Sheldon evenness indices. Examples of the application of the indices to employment data are provided throughout the book, while the text also illustrates the use of ordinary least squares, robust, Tobit, and ridge regression methods to assess how organizational and workplace factors influence age, ethnic, gender, and organizational diversity.