When you’re black, it’s all too easy to feel alone in the workplace. You wonder if you should have said or done something different, or what your coworkers and boss are really thinking.
This book, now in its second edition, will help you evaluate your options--for everything from getting hired to getting fired, from adjusting your attitude to pursuing legal remedies--while providing real-life solutions to the challenges of fitting your own style, mindset, history, and flavor into the workplace and achieving success.
Widely praised as the definitive guide for black Americans in the workplace, this new edition ofWorking While Blackhas been updated to account for changes in social networking, the Obama effect, the economic downturn, and recent court decisions.
This book examines in an insightful way a delicate and difficult issue—the triumph and tragedies of black upward mobility. Don't miss it! —Cornel West, author,Race Matters
Johnson has plenty of good advice. —Library Journal
Breaks down work relationships in terms that almost every employed person can relate to. —Jacksonville Free Press
I believe all employers should read Working While Black so they might learn how to work more effectively with African American employees. This book provides a powerful insight in the ways that African Americans must continually adjust in the workplace. If employers used that knowledge and responded in a meaningful way, the workplace would be much more productive and healthier for all employees.” —Kirk P. Perucca, president and CEO, Projecl£Ò
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