Ensuring Minority Success in Corporate Management

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Minority Success in Corporate Management

      • Nancy DiTomaso, Donna E. Thompson

      Pages 3-20

3. Just How Far Have We Come?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-24

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   2. Sources of Minority Underrepresentation in Corporate Employment

      • Seymour Spilerman

      Pages 25-35

   3. Employment Prospects for Minority Women

      • Shelley A. Smith, Marta Tienda

      Pages 37-55

   4. Minority and Nonminority MBA Progress in Business

      • David L. Ford Jr.

      Pages 57-69

   5. Racism and Sexism in Corporate America

      • John P. Fernandez

      Pages 71-99

   6. The Changing Agenda

      • George Davis

      Pages 101-113

4. Defining the Critical Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-118

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   2. Corporate Perspectives on the Advancement of Minority Managers

      • Nancy DiTomaso, Donna E. Thompson, David H. Blake

      Pages 119-136

   3. A Summary of Small-Group Discussions on the Advancement of Minority Managers

      • Nancy DiTomaso, Donna E. Thompson, David H. Blake

      Pages 137-147

   4. Perspectives of Current and Recent Minority MBA Students on Advancement in Management Careers

      • Nancy DiTomaso, Donna E. Thompson

      Pages 149-167

5. Finding Solutions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-172

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   2. Making It in the Corporation

      • James H. Scott, Horace B. Edwards, Lois M. Jackson, William Stubblefield, Serafin U. Mariel, Hector Juan Montes et al.

      Pages 173-233

   3. Corporate Programs for Ensuring Minority Advancement

      • Gail Judge, Robert A. Hofstader, Wilbert S. Crump, John L. Jones, Elizabeth P. Dixon, Roy Stewart et al.

      Pages 235-301

   4. An Overview of Corporate Policies and Practices

      • Donna E. Thompson, Nancy DiTomaso, David H. Blake

      Pages 303-319

6. Plans for Action

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 321-324

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   2. The Corporate Challenge

      • David R. Clare

      Pages 325-330

   3. Ensuring Minority Achievement in Corporations

      • Rosabeth Moss Kanter

      Pages 331-346

To be a corporate executive in America is to achieve a universally recognized measure of personal and professional success. The high income, privilege, prestige, and authority enjoyed by most corporate executives all attest to "making it." That is why the advancement of racial and ethnic minorities into the executive suite is one of the key barometers of the nation's progress toward full equality of opportunity. But the quest for equal opportunity in corporate management has been difficult and frustrating. Black, Hispanic, and Asian men and women are rarely found among those who run or significantly influence the direction of American corporations. The wide gap between the expectation and the reality is a continuing topic of interest to business leaders and racial and ethnic minorities, as well as to scholars of the business scene. This book edited by Thompson and DiTomaso contributes significantly to our understanding of this problem, and, most importantly, provides useful guidelines on what to do about it. Interest in the diversity of corporate management comes at a time of unprecendented challenge to United States success in the world economy. American business must now compete against aggressive producers and fi­ nanciers in Western Europe and Japan. More competition also has emerged from some of the rapidly developing countries in Latin America and the Pacific Rim. Our ability to design, manufacture, sell, and export goods and services in a global marketplace will increasingly determine our standard of living and prominence on the world stage.

• Affirmative Action
• Backlash
• Business
• Equal Opportunity
• Gender Discrimination
• Gender Issues in the Workplace
• Management
• Manager
• Minorities
• Minority Advancement
• Minority Managers
• Minority Underrepresentation
• Race Discrimination
• minority
• multicultural management

• Rutgers Graduate School of Management, Newark, USA

  Donna E. Thompson, Nancy DiTomaso

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