INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE ON CULTURE, RACE, AND ETHNICITY IN ORGANIZATIONAL CONSULTING PSYCHOLOGY

The need to strongly and directly address issues related to the rapidly changing culture, race, and ethnicity mix of workers, managers, customers, and services recipients in the United States and throughout many parts of the world is now essential. The goal of this special issue is to provide conceptual and practical resources that will contribute to greater effectiveness of consultations when consultants, consultees, and client systems involve diverse culture, race, and ethnicity. Specifically, this special issue consists of five articles, each of which focuses on four common questions: (1) In your experience in consulting, what have been the major challenges posed by culture, race, and ethnicity? (2) How have you dealt with these challenges? (3) Have you developed any conceptual or theoretical models to guide you in this work? (4) Given your expertise, what advice and recommendations would you offer to your fellow consultants as they deal with these challenges? All five articles rely on a variety of narrative-related writing methods, including case examples, biographical stories, and vignettes in narrative form. These five articles are followed by the presentation of an extensive category-clustered bibliography of publications on this topic. It is our hope that this special issue will continue to stimulate discussion and theory building concerning the consultation enterprise in our increasingly culturally diverse society, which is embedded in a highly globalized world community. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)