Giving notice : why the best and the brightest leave the workplace and how you can help them stay / Freada Kapor Klein, Martha Mendoza, Kimberly Allers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klein, Freada Kapor, 1952-

Contributor:

Seals-Allers, Kimberly.

Mendoza, Martha.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diversity in the workplace--United States.

Diversity in the workplace.

Minority professional employees--United States.

Minority professional employees.

Personnel management--United States.

Personnel management.

Corporate culture--United States.

Corporate culture.

Multiculturalism--United States.

Multiculturalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Imprint, c2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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

Contents:

The meritocracy myth : is there a level playing field?

Slights unseen

From the top

The cost of bias

Does blink = bias?

Dismantling barriers from the inside

Know the signs from the outside

Bias around the world

Ten steps back

Toward a new framework

What's in a resume?

Determining the cost of unfairness

Sources of corporate leaver stories.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611032562

9781281032560

1281032565

9780470193372

0470193379

OCLC:

476106654