Womanpower : Managing in Times of Demographic Turbulence

womanpower : managing in times of demographic turbulence

Womanpower : Managing in Times of Demographic Turbulence

Editorial Reviews
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"The chapters provide excellent overviews of key feminist issues, including the glass ceiling, work-family conflict, national social policy, and management education. Further, the chapters are clearly linked by a dedication to practical strategies for enhancing opportunities for women. Multi-dimensional proposals for significant change are presented at the end of each chapter, and these recommendations are both timely and creative. . . . I found the chapters in Womanpower on managing diversity and on women in management around the world particularly powerful. . . . Another chapter provided a refreshing alternative approach for empowering and enriching women." --Administration in Social Work "Authors are respected management researchers. . . . The editors' introduction to the various parts and their concluding overview provide a cohesive whole. Complements Gary N. Powell, Women and Men in Management. . . . Upper division undergraduate and graduate collections." --Choice "An excellent collection. . . . Seminal." --Journal of the Institute of Health Education "The book does what it sets out to do. It gives in one place a sense of the multiplicity of barriers and constituents. . . . The book offers multiple solutions. . . . This book is useful in its description of women's current status in management in the private sector. lt offers thoughtful solutions to earnest people who wish to improve women's access and experience in management. It should be commended for pointing to the importance of business education in the shaping of attitudes toward female employees." --Journal of Management Women are changing the demographics of the workforce. And, organizational practitioners, educators, and consultants are finding the need to adapt and learn how to effectively utilize their increasingly diverse human resources. In line with this effort is Womanpower, which advocates multi-faceted strategies for empowering women to enhance organizational vitality. In this timely volume, notable researchers and practitioners examine how to effectively utilize human resources along multiple perspectives--organizational, educational, legislative, societal, and global. They point out that changes need to occur in both the structures and processes within organizations in order for them to address the needs of their employees, as well as to compete in the global market. The contributors point out the consequences of ignoring rapid changes in the workforce; the frustration of women who are unable to advance in organizations; women leaving the disillusionment of organizational life for an entrepreneurial route; and avoiding critical evaluation of the part played by legislation in creating a healthy human resource environment. Womanpower identifies obstacles and offers insights into this vital issue, one that no practitioner, researcher or academic can afford to ignore.

About the Author

Frederick Leong (Ph.D., Counseling and Industrial-Organizational Psychology, University of Maryland, 1988) is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Counseling Psychology Program at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Prior to UTK, he was on the faculty at Southern Illinois University (1988-1991) and the Ohio State University (1991-2003).  He has authored or co-authored over 100 articles in various counseling and psychology journals, 45 book chapters, and also edited or co-edited 6 books and two Encyclopedias. Dr. Leong is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Divisions 1, 2, 17, 45, and 52) and the recipient of the 1998 Distinguished Contributions Award from the Asian American Psychological Association and the 1999 John Holland Award from the APA Division of Counseling Psychology. His major research interests are in cross-cultural psychology (particularly culture and mental health and cross-cultural psychotherapy), vocational psychology (career development of ethnic minorities), and organizational behavior. Currently, he is the President of both the Asian American Psychological Association and the Division of Counseling Psychology of the International Association of Applied Psychology. His latest project is the Sage Encyclopedia of Counseling for which he is the Editor-in-Chief.

Womanpower : Managing in Times of Demographic Turbulence,Uma Sekaran,Frederick T. L. Leong,Sage Publications, Inc,0803941064,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business Life - Inspirational,Business/Economics,Employment,Organizational Behavior,Sociology,United States,Women,Women executives,Business & Economics / Organizational Behavior

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