Diversity And Affirmative Action In Public Service

ISBN-13: 9780813366906 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 495 str.

Walter D. Broadnax

Opis

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 reader will be able to see clearly how the debate regarding this important topic has changed and matured over the last thirty years.The introduction and the individual chapter introductions bring together the perspectives of the practitioner and the academician. Many of the selected pieces have strong practical applications, and a substantial number of them were written by practitioners themselves.

Spis treści

Introduction -- Representative Bureaucracy and Equal Employment Opportunity -- Public Administration And Social Equity -- Social Equity and the Public Service -- Measuring Bureaucratic Representation and Integration -- Progress Toward Racial and Sexual Equality in the Federal Civil Service? -- From Civil Rights to Valuing Differences -- Equal Employment Opportunity and the Early Career in Federal Employment -- Racial Unrest in the Military -- Affirmative Action -- The U.S. Supreme Court's "Consensus" on Affirmative Action -- Affirmative Action and City Managers -- A Mini-Symposium -- Diversity -- Race, Sex, and Supervisory Authority in Federal White-Collar Employment -- Asian Americans in the Public Service -- A Symposium -- Gender -- Circumventing the Glass Ceiling -- Achieving Credibility -- Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Backward -- A Symposium -- Aging and Disabilities -- Greying at the Temples -- The Impact of Disabilities on Federal Career Success -- Mini-Symposium on New Roles for Older Workers

O autorze

Walter Broadnax