Ann M Morrison

The New Leaders

Leadership Diversity in America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Although other books discuss the concept of diversity in the workplace, The New Leaders is the first to offer practical strategies for moving women and people of color into executive positions. Based on interviews with nearly two hundred managers in organizations recognized for their model diversity programs, Morrison?the author who brought the term "glass ceiling" into our vernacular?and her colleagues present a step-by-step plan to help organizations compete for the best employees available.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780787901844
• ISBN-10: 0787901849
• Artikelnr.: 21024666

Autorenporträt

ANN M. MORRISON is the director of research in leadership diversity at the Center for Creative Leadership, La Jolla, California. She is also coauthor of the best-selling book Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Can Women Reach the Top of America's Largest Corporations? (1987) and The Lessons of Experience: How Successful Executives Develop in the Job (1988).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Diversity: The Turbulent Evolution of a SensitiveIssue.
Part One: Leadership Diversity as Strategy.
1. Achieving Benefits from Leadership Diversity.
2. Challenging the Barriers to Opportunity.
3. Setting Goals for Sustained Leadership Development.
Part Two: Leadership Diversity as Procedure.
4. Establishing Accountability for Diversity.
5. Creating Meaningful Development Opportunities.
6. Using Recruitment to Build Diversity.
Part Three: Leadership Diversity as Action.
7. Step One: Discover (and Rediscover) Diversity Problems in
YourOrganization.
8. Step Two: Strengthen Top-Management Commitment.
9. Step Three: Choose Solutions That Fit a Balanced Strategy.
10. Step Four: Demand Results and Revisit the Goals.
11. Step Five: Use Building Blocks to Maintain Momentum.
Conclusion: Meeting the Challenges of Leadership Diversity.

Rezensionen

?Morrison's insights into pinpointing barriers to diversity anddeveloping solutions are invaluable for entrepreneurs with enoughvision to see their businesses in?and guide them into?the nextcentury.?

"Picks up where her first book, Breaking the Glass Ceiling, leftoff."

"A practical guide to creating more powerful institutions byincorporating the talents and abilities of all sectors of ourdiverse culture." (Ann W. Richards, governor of Texas)

"If you have just been charged by your institution withresponsibility for designing a program to increasediversity--ethnic and gender--at all levels of management, this isa how-to book for you."