Good for Business: Making Full Use of the Nation's Human Capital. The Environmental Scan. A Fact-Finding Report of the Federal Glass Ceiling Commission.

Institution	Department of Labor, Washington, DC.
Titel	Good for Business: Making Full Use of the Nation's Human Capital. The Environmental Scan. A Fact-Finding Report of the Federal Glass Ceiling Commission.
Quelle	(1995), (495 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Adult Education; American Indians; Annotated Bibliographies; Asian Americans; Blacks; Change Strategies; Corporations; Employed Women; Employer Attitudes; Employment Patterns; Employment Practices; Equal Opportunities (Jobs); Focus Groups; Government Employees; Hispanic Americans; Interviews; Labor Force Development; Labor Legislation; Literature Reviews; Minority Groups; National Surveys; Nontraditional Occupations; Private Sector; Salary Wage Differentials; Tables (Data); Trend Analysis; Work Environment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; American Indian; Indianer; Bibliography; Bibliographies; Bibliografie; Asian immigrant; United States; Asiatischer Einwanderer; USA; Black person; Schwarzer; Lösungsstrategie; Unternehmen; 'Female employment; Women''s employment'; Frauenbeschäftigung; Arbeitgeberinteresse; Beschäftigungsstruktur; Berufspraxis; Equal opportunity; Equal opportunities; Job; Jobs; Chancengleichheit; Beruf; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Arbeitskräftebestand; Labor law; Arbeitsrecht; Ethnische Minderheit; Non-traditional occupations; Alternatives Berufsfeld; Privater Sektor; Tabelle; Trendanalyse; Arbeitsmilieu
Abstract	This document reports on barriers to the advancement of minority men and all women into decision-making positions in the private sector that were identified through a study of information from the following sources: 126 employers and employees testifying at public hearings in 5 U.S. cities; 18 commissioned research papers; survey of a sample of 25 chief executive officers (CEOs) selected across a range of industries/geographic areas; 6 racially homogeneous focus groups of Asian/Pacific Islander American, African American, and Hispanic/Latino male executives; 2 focus groups with American Indians; and special data runs of U.S. Census Bureau data. The report identifies societal, business, and governmental barriers to the advancement of minorities/women in the private sector along with successful strategies for overcoming those barriers. Fifty-one tables/figures, a 20-item annotated bibliography, and 76 references are included. Appendixes constituting approximately 30% of this document contain the following: glossary; tables detailing composition of the U.S. civilian labor force by race, sex, and Hispanic origin; corporate practice tables; methodology for measuring glass ceiling realities; standard industrial/occupational classifications; methodology/questions of the CEO survey; focus group methodology; tables characterizing employed persons within industry; roster of individuals testifying at public hearings; and index of tables. (MN)
Anmerkungen	U.S. Government Printing Office, Superintendent of Documents, Mail Stop: SSOP, Washington, DC 20402-9328; World Wide Web: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu.
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC