Articles from QED Consulting The following articles and chapters were written by Alan Richter, Ph.D., founder and president of QED Consulting. "Creating an Adaptable Workforce by Engaging with all Employees" By A. L. Richter. [download word document]   Global Standards Boost Diversity at Alaska Air, by V. Robert Hayles, Julie O’Mara and Alan Richter, Diversity Executive, Nov/Dec 2011   "Setting Standards for Organizational Diversity Work" published in The 2009 Pfeiffer Annual: Consulting.   "Simulation Stimulation: The Rise of Rank-Ordered, Consensus-Building Simulations" published in The 2009 Pfeiffer Annual: Training.   "When Values Clash," HR Magazine Defining ethical business conduct often depends on whom you talk to. Setting business standards based on core values helps employees play by the same rules.   "The Value of Diversity and the Diversity of Value", Cultural Diversity at Work, January 2001. How do we value the diversity of diversity? Through a better understanding of the diversity of values - global and business.   Contributing chapter Ethics in Laboratory Medicine in "Clinical Laboratory Medicine", 2nd edition, edited by Kenneth McClatchey. Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2002.   Chapter 6, Culture and Facts in Coronary Heart Disease in "Handbook of Cultural Health Psychology," Shahe Kazarian and David Evans, Editors. Academic Press, 2001.