Nearly 50 years after the Civil Rights Movement, there is a new crisis of opportunity in corporate America. Based on the author’s groundbreaking study of Fortune 100 companies, The Diversity Index identifies a barrier that has formed as white women have outpaced people of color and, along with white male executives, have wound up creating a persistent racial ceiling. In addition, the quest for global profits has created worldwide competition for the corporate suite, and U.S.-born minorities and whites are losing out.This isn’t only a civil rights issue, as studies have shown that businesses with a strong com mitment to diversity outperform their peers. The book takes an in-depth look at companies that have struggled to find the perfect leadership mix. Detailing the stories of executives of General Electric, Hewlett Packard, Merck, and PepsiCo, The Diversity Index distills into 10 clear steps the methods that the most successful companies used to develop integration, keep it growing, and empower their employees to develop new products and markets.
- ISBN13 9780814416495
- Publish Date 16 September 2011
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 9 July 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher HarperCollins Focus
- Imprint Amacom
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Language English