The Black Manager: Making It In the Corporate World

The Black Manager: Making It In the Corporate World by Floyd Dickens. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780814456781.

How can black men and women get ahead in the "white" corporate world? Must they "blend in?" The Black Manager, based on a study of successful black manager, reveals how blacks can nurture the attitudes and skills necessary to excel in the workplace - and still maintain their personal values. At the heart of the book is developmental model that guides readers through four career Entry, Adjusting, Planned Growth, and Success. The model helps readers improve personal, professional, and political skills; understand their own and others insecurities; and asses their organizations culture and learn to operate in it successfully.This revised edition has been thoroughly updated and features a new section on job mastery that lays out strategies for breaking through the "glass ceiling" that continues to thwart advancement. The Black Manager will help all readers - black and nonblack - to be more effective in todays increasingly diverse workplace.