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Title Diversity and affirmative action in public service / edited by Walter D. Broadnax
Published Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 475 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series ASPA classics
ASPA classics.
Contents List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part 1 Representative Bureaucracy and Equal Employment Opportunity; 1 Public Administration and Social Equity, H. George Frederickson; 2 Social Equity and the Public Service, Eugene B. McGregor Jr.; 3 Measuring Bureaucratic Representation and Integration, David Nachmias and David H. Rosenbloom; 4 Progress Toward Racial and Sexual Equality in the Federal Civil Service? Gregory B. Lewis; 5 From Civil Rights to Valuing Differences, Walter D. Broadnax; 6 Equal Employment Opportunity and the Early Career in Federal Employment, Gregory B. Lewis
7 Racial Unrest in the Military: The Challenge and the Response, Richard Stillman IIPart 2 Affirmative Action; 8 The U.S. Supreme Court's "Consensus" on Affirmative Action, John Naibandian; 9 Affirmative Action and City Managers: Attitudes Toward Recruitment of Women, James D. Slack; 10 A Mini-Symposium: Affirmative Action in Public Employment, edited by Lloyd G. Nigro; Part 3 Diversity; 11 Race, Sex, and Supervisory Authority in FederalWhite-Collar Employment, Gregory B. Lewis; 12 Asian Americans in the Public Service: Success, Diversity, and Discrimination, Pan Suk Kim and Gregory B. Lewis
13 A Symposium: Minorities in Public Administration, edited by Adam W. HerbertPart 4 Gender; 14 Circumventing the Glass Ceiling: Women Executives inAmerican State Governments, Angela M. Bullard and Deil S. Wright; 15 Achieving Credibility: An Analysis of Women's Experience, A. Carol Rusaw; 16 Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Backward: The Status of Women's Integration into Public Management, Mary E. Guy; 17 A Symposium: Women in Public Administration, edited by Nesta M. Gallas; Part 5 Aging and Disabilities
18 Greying at the Temples: Demographics of a Public ServiceOccupation, James F. Wolf, Carole M. Neves, Richard T. Greenough, and Bill B. Benton19 The Impact of Disabilities on Federal Career Success, Gregory B. Lewis and Cheryl Lynn Allee; 20 Mini-Symposium on New Roles for Older Workers:The Neglected Option, edited by Jarold A. Keiffer; Index
Summary Diversity and affirmative action are subjects that tend to elicit some form of emotion, either strongly supportive or strongly opposed. In Diversity and Affirmative Action in Public Service, Walter Broadnax has drawn together a collection of essays that provides the reader with a historical overview of the evolution of these concepts within a public service context. The book opens with a discussion of representative bureaucracy and, using that material as a backdrop, proceeds to provide highly useful snapshots of the evolution of these concepts over the last several decades. The re
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Diversity in the workplace.
Affirmative action programs.
Civil service -- Minority employment.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
Affirmative action programs
Civil service -- Minority employment
Diversity in the workplace
Form Electronic book
Author Broadnax, Walter D
ISBN 9780786751419
078675141X