Introduction
The three concepts of planning, diversity, and personnel leadership share an imperative nexus: to alleviate suffering and prevent conflict and war. Without intervention, resentment and reaction to intolerable discrimination may lead to global disruption and a serious if not fatal end to modern civilization. Another commonality in these three overlapping focal points is the duty to maintain all of the unexplored resources inherent in the global population. Unknown potentialities of the human genome, yet to be manifested cultural and spiritual arts, and preservation of the material and intellectual tool kits developed to cope with humanity’s myriad of environmental challenges all promise to help achieve undreamed advances in health, wealth, and well-being. The role of global leadership in this effort is to plan and implement diversity policies to realize these aspirations.
One of the roots of modern personnel leadership in the public administration discipline is government...
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Allen, L.M. (2017). Planning, Diversity, and Personnel Leadership. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3154-1
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