Recruitment is never enough: Retention of women and minorities in the IT workplace

Proceedings of the ACM SIGMIS CPR Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 84-91

  Tapia, Andrea H ^a   Kvasny, Lynette ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Minorities; Recruitment; Retention; Women; Workplace Diversity

Indexed keywords

MINORITIES; RECRUITMENT; RETENTION; WOMEN; WORKPLACE DIVERSITY;

COSTS; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL; PERSONNEL TRAINING; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 2942635231     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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