Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Workplace [Three Volumes] Issues and Challenges for Today's Organizations

Subjects:

• Business » Business (General)
• Business » Management
• Business » Human Resources/Personnel Management
• Women's Studies » Women's Studies (General)

Reviews:

• Karsten has edited a three-volume work that provides in-depth coverage of the causes and consequences of workplace inequality; the effects of equal employment opportunity laws on the workplace; and organizational and individual strategies for dealing with discrimination, which are based on case studies, personal reflections, and research. Academic and professional contributors from diverse fields, including business, psychology, sociology, law, and public policy, bring a multidisciplinary perspective to the topic....[w]ill be of most interest to advanced students, researchers, and professionals in business and organizational psychology. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections.
  —Choice January 2007
• Edited by Karsten, this three-volume set explores the current status of women and racial/ethnic minorities in the US workplace; explores psychological, sociological, and legal aspects of their positions in business; and explores organizational and individual strategies for coping with and changing discriminatory practices, in that order.
  —Reference & Research Book News November 2006

• Endorsement From Cathy Trower, Research Associate
  Harvard University, Graduate School of Education: There's something for everyone in the Praeger Perspectives set, Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Workplace. While the majority of the articles are by faculty members spanning philosophy and psychology to business and law, there are also pieces written by academic administrators and business people. The breadth and depth of authors is matched by the topics (from blue collar women in male jobs to racial stereotypes and power dynamics), the flavor and tone (from those heavy on citations and footnotes to how-to stories from the corporate sector), and the reach (from individual strategies to social policy initiatives). An amazing compilation!

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Women Leaders in Corporate America: A Study of Leadership Values and Methods
• 2. Toward an Inclusive Framework for Envisioning Race, Gender, and Leadership
• 3. Leading Beyond Boundaries
• 4. Corporate Culture and Leadership: Traditional, Legal, and Charismatic Authority
• 5. American Indian Women: Ways of Knowing, Ways of Leading
• 6. This is How We Do It: Black Women Entrepreneurs Management Strategies and Styles
• 7. Blue Collar women in Traditional Male Jobs: Reconsidering the Glass Ceiling
• 8. Working Relationships among Black and White Professional Women
• 9. Black Women in Management
• 10. Latinas at Work: Issues of Gender, Ethnicity, and Class
• 11. Unearned Privilege: Issues of Race, Gender, and Social Inequality in U.S. Organizations
• 12. Gender Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market: Evidence from 2000 Census
• Index
• About the Editor and Contributors
• Volume II
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Affirmative Action: Unintended Adverse Effects
• 2. Racial and Ethnic Harassment in the Workplace
• 3. Incivility, Sexual Harassment, and Violence in the Workplace
• 4. Romantic Relationships in the Workplace
• 5. Pregnancy Discrimination: Laboring Under Assumptions in the Workplace
• 6. The Family and Medical Leave Act: Lost in Translation
• 7. Gender and Managerial Stereotypes: Have the Times Changed?
• 8. Gender and Race-Related Stereotypes in Management
• 9. Impact of Gender on Leadership
• 10. Tokenism Theory: What Happens When Few Women Work With Many Men
• 11. Power, Control, and Gender: Training as Catalyst for Dysfunctional Behavior at the United States Air Force Academy
• 12. Gendered Ethics and Law in cases of Corporate Executive Crimes and Punishments
• Index
• About the Editor and Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Volume III
• Introduction
• 1. Cross-Cultural Communication in the Diverse Workplace: A New Frontier for Managers
• 2. Dirty Business: Women Managing Sexual Objectification in the Workplace
• 3. Best Practices in Diversity Management
• 4. Diversity Management at Shell Oil
• 5. Career Planning: Toward an Inclusive Model
• 6. Gender, Race and Role Model Status: Exploring the Impact of Informal Developmental Relationships on Management Careers
• 7. Alternatives Approaches to Mentoring in the New Millennium
• 8. The Impact of Social Networks on the Advancement of Women and Racial/Ethnic Minority Groups
• 9. Women Are on the Same Teamand Other Important Business Rules
• 10. Double Jeopardy Survival: Insights and Lessons Learned in Organizational Battlefields
• 11. Developing Men and Women Leaders: The Influence of Personal Life Experiences
• 12. Interrupting the Persistence of Gender Inequities in Loosely Coupled Systems: Effective Management Processes to Address the Lack of Institutional Support for Work/Life Issues in Academic Careers
• 13. Managerial Women, Minorities, and Stress: Causes and Consequences
• Index
• About the Editor and Contributors

PDF Catalogs:

Business Catalog 2008.pdf