Giving Notice (eBook)

Why the Best and Brightest are Leaving the Workplace and How You Can Help them Stay

Freada Kapor Klein (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2007 | 1. Auflage
276 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-19337-2 (ISBN)

Infos

A groundbreaking book that offers approaches for changing the
hidden biases in the workplace

This is an eye-opening examination of the causes and dynamics of
bias in the workplace, offering a psychological, political, and
societal analysis of the actual cost of bias to the bottom line.
The authors make the hurdles that women and minorities face in the
workplace as personal to the reader as they are to those who face
them. Giving Notice is filled with sensible approaches for solving
the current imbalance and challenges us to rethink unconscious
ideas about stereotypes and commonly accepted business
practices.

Freada Kapor Klein (San Francisco, CA) is an internationally noted
consultant and diversity expert. She has been quoted in the New
York Times, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post,
and on the Today show, Nightline, and NBC Nightly News. Kimberly
Allers (Bayshore, NY) was a writer at Fortune magazine and is a
frequent guest speaker at professional development and
women-oriented seminars. Martha Mendoza (Santa Cruz, CA) is a
national writer for the Associated Press. She won a Pulitzer Prize
for investigative reporting.

Autor

Freada Kapor Klein co-founded the Level Playing Field Institute. Based in San Francisco, the LPFI is dedicated to improving fairness and opportunity in the workplace through educational programs and workplace training. LPFI strives to identify and remove hidden barriers from the classroom to the boardroom. Kimberly Allers, a writer at Fortune magazine and senior editor at Essence, is a frequent guest speaker at professional development seminars. Martha Mendoza is a national staff writer for the Associated Press. In 2000, she won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting.

Inhalt

Introduction vii

1 The Meritocracy Myth: Is the Playing Field Level? 1

2 Slights Unseen 16

3 From the Top 33

4 The Cost of Bias 48

5 Does Blink = Bias? 67

6 Dismantling Barriers from the Inside 82

7 Know the Signs from the Outside 109

8 Bias Around the World 125

9 Ten Steps Back 137

10 Toward a New Framework 157

A What's in a Resume? 183

B Determining the Cost of Unfairness 189

C Sources of Corporate Leaver Stories 197

Notes 201

References 205

Acknowledgments 211

The Author 213

Index 215

Rezensionen

"Is the corporate playing field still an obstacle course for people
who are "different?" Freada Kapor Klein, one of
America's leading diversity advocates, thinks so. In
Giving Notice, she and her coauthors tell you why and
what to do about it. This refreshing and eye-opening new book
blasts the 'diversity industry' and the
'meritocracy myth-makers' for ignoring the daily
indignities and subtle biases that shape career
prospects. Giving Notice tells it like it is and then
tells it like it could be, offering every American a vision of
workplaces that are good for people, companies, and the
economy."

-Rosabeth Moss Kanter, professor, Harvard Business
School and best-selling author of Confidence: How Winning
Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End

"This book will clearly set the new standard for the
field. I think it will be amazing and it should be required
reading for anyone in the investment business."

-David Blood, managing partner, Generation Investment
Management and former CEO, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

"Freada Kapor Klein provides many insights into the
microdynamics of diversity issues and even more insights into
policy issues, organizational dynamics, and ways to change
practice. She takes fundamental issues and articulates them in a
very concise, engaging, and easy-to-digest way. Her examples are
interesting, often humorous, and always clear."

-Stephen Small, chair, African American Studies,
University of California, Berkeley

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.6.2008
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Personalwesen
• Schlagworte: Business & Management • Wirtschaft • Wirtschaft u. Management
• ISBN-10: 0-470-19337-9 / 0470193379
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-19337-2 / 9780470193372