Affirmative action and corporate emotional health programs.
Using the New York home office of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States as a model for corporations in general, this paper addresses four major areas concerning the psychology of success or failure of minorities in newly acquired "corporate elite" jobs: (1) the nature of the corporate mandate for making Affirmative Action work; (2) the stressors unique to minorities in corporate life and the effects of such stressors; (3) the Equitable's response to its minority employees' stress-related symptoms; and (4) recommendations aimed at assuring the success of minority employees in organizational life.
D000124:Achievement; D002322:Career Mobility; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000523:psychology*; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000523:psychology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*