Men and Women of the Corporation: New EditionIn 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. |
Contents
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Part II Roles and Images | 45 |
Part III Structures and Processes | 127 |
Part IV Understanding and Action | 243 |
Appendices Notes Bibliography Index | 329 |
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