Designed to provide a single source of cases, exercises, incidents, and skill builders, this book offers a fresh approach based on dynamic organizational events confronting both human resource managers and line managers who often implement personnel programs and policies. Topics range from traditional applications of personnel theory to the more controversial issues of AIDS, alcohol and drug abuse on the job, new federal legislation on discrimination issues, employment-at-will, work and family, and the human resource aspects of merger activities. The settings cover a wide variety of organizations with an emphasis on the growing service sector. (view table of contents)

Product Description: In Our Separate Ways, authors Ella Bell and Stella Nkomo take an unflinching look at the surprising differences between black and white women's trials and triumphs on their way up the corporate ladder. Based on groundbreaking research that spanned eight years, Our Separate Ways compares and contrasts the experiences of 120 black and white female managers in the American business arena...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Tracing the lives of more than one hundred successful female managers and executives in their own words, a unique look at the background and career paths of black and white women explores the influence of race, education, family, and wealth.