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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.
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Rosabeth Moss Kanter, holds the Class of 1960 Chair as professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School. She is the author of eleven books, including When Giants Learn to Dance (1988), which won the Johnson, Smith & Knisely Award for New Perspectives on Executive Leadership, and The Change Masters (1983).
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Every day a large proportion of all Americans don their figurative white collars and go to work in offices, where they take their stations in the administrative machines that run large organizations. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nonexempt women, secretarial role relations, exempt ranks, sales force survey, clerical labor force, exempt jobs, secretarial ranks, corporate wives, status contingency, peer alliances, follower satisfaction, skewed group, role encapsulation, women bosses, mobility prospects, token women, corporate wife, masculine ethic, secretarial function, advancement prospects, central life interest Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Every day a large proportion of all Americans don their figurative white collars and go to work in offices, where they take their stations in the administrative machines that run large organizations. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nonexempt women, secretarial role relations, exempt ranks, sales force survey, clerical labor force, exempt jobs, secretarial ranks, corporate wives, status contingency, peer alliances, follower satisfaction, skewed group, role encapsulation, women bosses, mobility prospects, token women, corporate wife, masculine ethic, secretarial function, advancement prospects, central life interest Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- The Bureaucratic Phenomenon by Michael Crozier on 7 pages
- Organizational Society by Robert Vance Presthus on 4 pages
- Law, Society, and Industrial Justice by Philip Selznick on 4 pages
- When Giants Learn To Dance by Rosabeth Moss Kanter in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The World of the Office Worker (Studies of Urban Society) by Michael Crozier in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Change Masters by Rosabeth Moss Kanter on 6 pages
- The Rhetoric of Social Research: Understood and Believed by Albert Hunter on 5 pages
- Competitive Frontiers: Women Managers in a Global Economy by Nancy Adler on 4 pages
- How Women Legislate by Sue Thomas in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Destined for Equality: The Inevitable Rise of Womens Status by Robert Max Jackson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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