Credibility, the essence of trust, is critical to the development of leadership skills among women managers in male-dominant organizations. This article describes credibility as an emergent theme in the accounts of fourteen ...

The American workplace is at a crossroads; workplace demo- graphics powerfully suggest that managing diversity will constitute a large portion of management's agenda through out the 1990s and into the next century. This ...

During the last decade, the Supreme Court has been vacillating in itsapproach to affirmative action (AA)--from stricker scrutiny standards to moreliberal standards--seriously complicating the job of public administration ...

This article assesses reform of employment practices in a moderate-sized university community. It suggests that cultural barriers to affirmative action may be much more significant than any other barriers, especially when ...

Using data obtained from OPM's Office of Workforce Information and Census Bureau statistics, the research reported here has three main objectives. The first is to provide a statis tical look at America's African- American ...

The effects of age on productivity have been a long-standing concern for employers. A commonly held stereotype is that worker productivity declines with age. However, the available literature regarding occupational performance ...

A literature-based questionnaire containing measures of fear and knowledge of AIDS, respondent views of workplace consequences of AIDS, and AIDS as a public policy issue was administered to a random sample of government ...