Rethinking How to Build Inclusive Organizations
Race, Work, and Leadership is a rare and important compilation of
essays that examines how race matters in people's experience of work and
leadership. What does it mean to be black in corporate America today?
How are racial dynamics in organizations changing? How do we build
inclusive organizations?
Inspired by and developed in conjunction with the research and
programming for Harvard Business School's commemoration of the fiftieth
anniversary of the founding of the HBS African American Student Union,
this groundbreaking book shines new light on these and other timely
questions and illuminates the present-day dynamics of race in the
workplace. Contributions from top scholars, researchers, and
practitioners in leadership, organizational behavior, psychology,
sociology, and education test the relevance of long-held assumptions and
reconsider the research approaches and interventions needed to
understand and advance African Americans in work settings and leadership
roles.
At a time when--following a peak in 2002--there are fewer African
American men and women in corporate leadership roles, Race, Work, and
Leadership will stimulate new scholarship and dialogue on the
organizational and leadership challenges of African Americans and become
the indispensable reference for anyone committed to understanding,
studying, and acting on the challenges facing leaders who are building
inclusive organizations.
