The Diversity Index

The Alarming Truth About Diversity in Corporate America... and What Can Be Done About It
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8144-1649-5
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 592 g

Nearly 50 years after the Civil Rights Movement, there is a new crisis of opportunity in corporate America. Based on the author’s groundbreaking study of Fortune 100 companies, The Diversity Index identifies a barrier that has formed as white women have outpaced people of color and, along with white male executives, have wound up creating a persistent racial ceiling. In addition, the quest for global profits has created worldwide competition for the corporate suite, and U.S.-born minorities and whites are losing out.This isn’t only a civil rights issue, as studies have shown that businesses with a strong com mitment to diversity outperform their peers. The book takes an in-depth look at companies that have struggled to find the perfect leadership mix. Detailing the stories of executives of General Electric, Hewlett Packard, Merck, and PepsiCo, The Diversity Index distills into 10 clear steps the methods that the most successful companies used to develop integration, keep it growing, and empower their employees to develop new products and markets.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reed, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents Introduction CHAPTER 1— The Diversity Buffet CHAPTER 2— Merck’s Deliberate Strategy: Just Do It CHAPTER 3— A Plan for Progress CHAPTER 4— The Reality of Change Must Accompany the Rhetoric of Change CHAPTER 5— The Cost of Exclusion CHAPTER 6— Scaling Up: Creating a Minority Supply Chain CHAPTER 7— No Room at the Top CHAPTER 8— Affinity Groups: Plans for Progress for Employees CHAPTER 9— Importing the Important People CHAPTER 10— A New Plan for Progress Epilogue Notes Acknowledgments Index

Über Autor(innen)

Susan E. Reed (Boston, MA) is an award-winning journalist who has covered almost every aspect of the workplace for 25 years for CBS News, the New York Times, the American Prospect, and other publications. She writes a business column for the international news website GlobalPost.com.