Men and Women of the Corporation
Author | : Rosabeth Moss Kanter |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2008-08-04 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780786723843 |
ISBN-13 | : 078672384X |
Rating | : 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: In this landmark work on corporate power, especially as it relates to women, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the distinguished Harvard management thinker and consultant, shows how the careers and self-images of the managers, professionals, and executives, and also those of the secretaries, wives of managers, and women looking for a way up, are determined by the distribution of power and powerlessness within the corporation. This new edition of her award-winning book has a major new afterward in which the author reviews and analyzes how attitudes and practices within the corporate power structure have changed in the 1990s.