Managers running this system have developed a wonderful set of code words, described below, to mollify non-preferred employees who might perceive unfairness in all this. It tells you a great deal about the organization. In any event, we get a nice list of short-sale candidates from this article. Today, though, a new sense of urgen p to be building over promoting minorities into senior management. And pressure for increased efforts is coming not just from minority employees, but also from growing numbers of decision-makers in big U.S. corporations.
Demographics are an important reason.
Thus, attention is focusing on those few companies that have shown a knack for promoting minorities into fast-track management jobs. What's more, two of Xerox's five regional vice presidents and general managers are black. And he reports to a black man, A. Barry Rand, who heads Xerox's U.S. marketing group, the company's single largest U.S. operation. Some of Xerox's tactics were considered radical just a few years ago. Today, many other companies are trying to learn from Xerox.