The New Leaders: Leadership Diversity in America

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.

Spis treści:
Introduction: Diversity: The Turbulent Evolution of a Sensitive Issue.
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 Your Organization.
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.

Nota biograficzna:
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).

Okładka tylna:
Although other books discuss the concept of diversity in the workplace, The New Leaders is the first to offer pr actical 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.