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America's Competitive Secret: Women Managers (Paperback)

by Judy B. Rosener (Author) "This book proposes an audacious idea: that leveraging the talents of professional women will lead to more innovative, productive, and profitable organizations..." (more)
Key Phrases: female underutilization, underutilization issue, sexual static, United States, New York, Wall Street Journal (more...)
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"Rosener addresses the topic head-on and shows us all how to come out winners."--Atlanta Small Business Monthly
"Men who work with and for women, and women who work with and for men, should read Judy B. Rosener's book. Why? Because it is a straightforward and readable guide that will help each side understand the other's attitude about women in management."--The Washington Post


Product Description
The United States has a large number of well educated, experienced professional women ready, willing and able to move into the boardrooms and executive suites of corporate America. Together they represent a great, untapped economic resource, a resource no other country in the world can claim. This is America's competitive secret, argues Judy B. Rosener in this refreshingly pragmatic new book for managers who want to improve their bottom line.
A leading expert on women and men at work and a highly sought-after speaker, Rosener argues that not only are men and women different, so are male and female managers. Drawing on in-depth interviews with top-flight executives and middle managers and the latest research on working women and organizational change, she describes the unique contribution of female professionals. Her profiles of top women managers reveal that they cope well with ambiguity, are comfortable sharing power, and they tend to empower others-- leadership traits that Rosener contends lead to increased employee productivity, innovation, and profits. As businesses today struggle with corporate reorganization and an increasingly diverse workforce, America's Competitive Secret offers compelling evidence that the changes that help organizations more fully utilize the talents of women are the same changes that will give them an important edge in today's fast-changing, service oriented, global workplace.
Rosener explains why the so-called glass ceiling still prevents many competent women from reaching the upper echelons of management. She analyzes why women and men are perceived and evaluated differently at work, and provides new insight into the feelings of men who are asked to interact with women in new roles when there are few new rules. Rosener shows that removing the glass ceiling can no longer be viewed solely in terms of social equity--it is now an economic imperative.
Too many American businesses have limited their economic strength by viewing the promotion of women employees only within the context of federally mandated affirmative action laws and policies. America's Competitive Secret redefines the issue for a new era, showing that America's most successful competitive strategy is one that most effectively utilizes all its human resources.

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Product Details
  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (December 4, 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0195119142
  • ISBN-13: 978-0195119145
  • Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.6 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars