Gender, Race, and Role Model Status: Exploring the Impact of Informal Developmental Relationships on Management Careers

Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Workplace: Issues and Challenges for Today’s Organizations

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 117-130

  Murrell, Audrey J ^a,b   Zagenczyk, Thomas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b University Center for Social and Urban Research   (United States)

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