Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Affirmatively Managing Helen

Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Affirmatively Managing Helen case study focuses on the challenge to administrative leadership to secure maximum benefit from a nonproductive but competent employee who has the potential to make important contributions to her department. The management challenge in the case involves more than just managing affirmative action efforts; it involves educating other employees--in this case, men--who must learn to work with the woman and abandon sexist patterns of behavior.This e-book highlights a multiplicity of issues in organizational theory and human resource management.