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Title: Addressing Career Success Issues of African Americans in the Workplace: An Undergraduate Business Program Intervention.
Author : Career Development Quarterly
Release Date : January 01, 2009
Genre: Business & Personal Finance,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 271 KB

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Career success as measured by the objective, traditional criteria of the composite of high number of promotions, high annual compensation, and high organizational level in corporate America has eluded the majority of African Americans. This article describes an undergraduate business program career success intervention designed to assist African Americans in overcoming the organizational barriers present in corporate America that prevent their upward mobility, examines its effectiveness, and concludes with implications for research and practice in career development and counseling. Since the mid-1970s, the percentage of Blacks in professional and managerial jobs has increased. From 1977 to 1982 (Jones, 1986), the percentage of minorities in this occupational group increased from 3.6% of the national total to 5.2%. Although encouraged that the percentages are moving upward, career development professionals are concerned that the percentages are still very low, even miniscule at the executive level (Cokley, Dreher, & Stockdale, 2004). The small increase in the percentage of minorities in professional and managerial jobs has lead career development professionals to study the career needs of minorities to identify developmental strategies specific to their career success issues. Zunker (1990) stated that these strategies should assist Blacks in learning to cope with the White society, with emphasis on interrelationships in work environments and the development of sense of identity (p. 423). Waters (1991) assigned this developmental strategy to higher education by stating that the business education of the Black student should recognize the social context in which Black employees must operate and the unspoken role that social behaviors play in their evaluations (p. 233). More recent research (Thomas & Gabarro, 1999) has revealed that the making of minority executives is less random, mysterious, and paradoxical than many imagine and that appropriate interventions can positively affect the development and advancement of minorities to the executive suite. The purpose of this article is to share one such career success intervention in the business administration program of a historically Black college.

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