Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Workplace: Emerging Issues and Enduring Challenges

by Margaret Foegen Karsten (Editor)

Overview

Insights from professionals in the fields of organizational development and diversity provide practical tools to help employees and managers—regardless of race or gender—collaborate in reaching their workplace potential.

The contributions of more than 30 experts reframe the discussion on gender, race, and ethnicity in the U.S. workforce, examining the complex identity concerns facing workers who fall within minority groups and recommending practical solutions for dealing with workplace inequities. Through focused essays, experts explore new perspectives to persistent challenges and discuss progress made in addressing unequal treatment based on race and gender in the past eight years. This detailed reference explores every aspect of the issue, including mentoring, family leaves, pay inequity, multiracial and transgender identities, community involvement, and illegal harassment.

The first part of the book identifies employment discrimination based on multiracial identity, appearance, and transgender status. The second section unveils the psychology behind harassment on the job; the third section provides strategies for overcoming traditional obstacles for the disenfranchised. The final section discusses updates on laws dealing with the Family and Medical Leave Act. The book closes with success stories of women of color in U.S. leadership roles as well as others achieving success in their professions outside of the country. Accompanying tables, charts, and graphs illustrate the field's most poignant research, such as the relationship between organizational effectiveness and diversity and the characteristics of those taking family and medical leave.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798216088974
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	03/28/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	464
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	7 - 17 Years

About the Author

Margaret Foegen Karsten is a professor of human resource management and internship coordinator in the School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Platteville.
Margaret Foegen Karsten is Professor in the Department of Business and Accounting and Coordinator of the Business Administration Distance Program at the University of Wisconsin, Platteville, where she teaches management and human resource courses. A specialist in issues of gender, race, and management, she presents frequently at academic conferences, and is the author of many articles, case studies, and encyclopedia entries. Her books include Management, Gender, and Race in the 21st Century and Management and Gender: Issues and Attitudes (Praeger, 1994).

Table of Contents

Introduction
Margaret Foegen Karsten
PART 1: NEW AND CONTINUING FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION
1 Multiracial in the Workplace: A New Kind of Discrimination?
Tanya Katerí Hernández
2 Weight and Appearance at Work: Legal Concerns Related to Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
Bahaudin G. Mujtaba and Frank J. Cavico
3 Navigating Transgender Issues in the Workplace
Vanessa Sheridan
4 Gender Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market: Evidence from the American Community Survey
Jongsung Kim and Shani D. Carter
PART 2: ROMANCE, HARASSMENT, AND INCIVILITY AT WORK
5 Romantic Relationships at Work: Coming into Their Own
Donna Castañeda
6 You're Not the Boss of Me! Or Are You? Employer Liability for Workplace Harassment after Vance v. Ball State
Thomas S. Collins
7 Selective Incivility: A Microaggression Targeting Racial and Ethnic Groups in the Workplace
Marilyn Y. Byrd
PART 3: CAREER CHALLENGES AND WORKGROUP DIVERSITY
8 Filling the Gap: Principles, Practices, and Tools for the Effective Management of Diverse Workgroups
Amanda Kraus and Martha Farnsworth Riche
9 Sex, Gender, and Leadership in the Public Sector: Is the Role of Femininity Greater at Lower Levels?
Gary N. Powell and D. Anthony Butterfield
10 Navigating the Circle of Trust: Building and Rebuilding Authentic Relationships among Women
Karen L. Proudford, Jessica L. Porter, Golshan Javadian, and Nancie Zane
11 Maintaining a Healthy Diversified Mentoring Relationship
Kimberly E. O'Brien
12 Lean In . . . Or Not: Women of Color in the Workforce
Janelle M. Silva and Samuel Link
PART 4: WORK AND FAMILY ISSUES
13 Is Pregnancy a Disability?
Julie Manning Magid
14 The Family and Medical Leave Act: Changes and Challenges
Darlene M. Clabault
15 Who Experiences More Stress When Work Hours Increase: Comparisons by Gender, Marriage, Children, and Partner Employment
Se Hoon Kim
16 Women and Work–Life Balance: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Lora Reed
PART 5: WORKPLACE STORIES AND SPECIAL SITUATIONS
17 Latinas in the Workplace: Creating a Path of Success
Damary M. Bonilla-Rodriguez
18 American Indian Women in Academic Libraries: Progress and Challenges
Sarah R. Kostelecky
19 Understanding the Lack of Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Accounting Profession: A Systems View
Ann-Lorraine Edwards
20 Women Working Abroad: A Slow, Steady Climb
Marvee L. Marr
For Additional Reading
About the Editor and Contributors
Index

What People are Saying About This

Michele A. Paludi

"Rosabeth Moss Kanter has noted that the success of organizations depends on effectively using human resources. Scholars have advocated bringing together from a variety of disciplines those concepts, theories, and research that may be useful to people in making decisions about the behavior of individuals and groups. It is noted that effective human resource management is of critical importance, considering the more complicated lifestyles of employees that necessitates job sharing and flex time, technological advances, demographic changes of the workforce (e.g., more women, minorities, and aging employees), and increased state and federal legislation that impact the workplace. Margaret Karsten’s new book integrates legal, social science and human resource management research and offers a blueprint for managers and leaders on ways to value and respect ALL people in the workplace."

Stella M. Nkomo

"This very impressive volume provides a fresh and unique perspective on a range of contemporary race, gender, and ethnicity challenges in the workplace. The editor has assembled an excellent group of contributors who address complex issues in an authoritative and intellectually engaging manner. I recommend it highly."

Belle Rose Ragins

"Managers and professionals need to understand the complexities of diversity and the ways in which discrimination, prejudice, and modern racism manifest at work. This edited volume offers students, scholars and practitioners an important resource for understanding the complexities of diversity in today’s workforce."

Stacey Blake-Beard

"Professor Margaret Karsten has marshaled a powerful set of essays/chapters that accompany the reader in examining several critical and difficult processes brewing at the intersection of race, gender and ethnicity in the workplace. The internationally acclaimed set of contributors whom Karsten has assembled offer research and insights that build on established theoretical foundations and concepts; at the same time, they strike out in new directions, taking the reader to novel discourses on how workplaces are positively and negatively affected by these intersecting dimensions. The chapters provide guidance and inspiration for readers to both reflect and act as agents of change. This book will be an invaluable resource for those interested in a rich and nuanced understanding of race, gender, and ethnicity—scholars and practitioners alike."