Men and Women of the Corporation New Edition

by Kanter, Rosabeth Moss

• ISBN13: 9780465044542
• ISBN10: 0465044549
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-11-03
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

Preface To The 1993 Edition	p. xi
Preface	p. xv
Introduction	p. 3
The Players and the Stage	p. 13
Men and Women of the Corporation: The Population	p. 14
Roles and Images	p. 45
Secretaries	p. 69
Wives	p. 104
Structures and Processes	p. 127
Opportunity	p. 129
Power	p. 164
Numbers: Minorities and Majorities	p. 206
Understanding and Action	p. 243
Contributions to Theor: Structural Determinants of Behavior in Organizations	p. 245
Contributions to Practice: Organizational Change, Affirmative Action, and the Quality of Work Life	p. 265
Afterword to the 1993 Edition: The View from the 1990s: How the Global Economy Is Reshaping Corporate Power and Careers	p. 289
Field Study Methodology and Sources of Data	p. 331
Notes	p. 344
Bibliography	p. 368
Index	p. 383
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