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What's Your Zip Code Story instructs class-migrants (whether college students, recent graduates, or overlooked employees), how to climb the career lattice and transform themselves from undervalued employees to respected leaders. This book tackles challenges that class-migrants and business leaders encounter regarding workplace class bias.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword: by Howard J Ross
Introduction
1 Why Does Social Class Matter?
2 My Zip Code Story
3 What's Your Zip Code Story?
4 Zip Code Bias
5 10 Things Managers and Class Migrants Need to Know
6 How Businesses can Incorporate Social Class into their Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility Initiatives
7 The Power of Belonging
8 Mentorship the Bridge to Equity
Bibliography
Notes
Index
About the Author
About the author
Jin Young Choi is professor of New Testament and Christian Origins and the Baptist Missionary Training School Professorial Chair for Biblical Studiesat Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School and author of Postcolonial Discipleship of Embodiment: An Asian and Asian American Feminist Reading of the Gospel of Mark.Howard J. Ross, a lifelong social justice advocate and founding partner of the nationally recognized diversity consulting firm Cook Ross, Inc., is the author of Reinventing Diversity: Transforming Organizational Community to Strengthen People, Purpose, and Performance (2011), Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Bias in our Everyday Lives and Our Search for Belonging: How Our Need to Connect is Tearing Us Apart (Barrett Koehler, 2018) His work has been published by the Harvard Business Review, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Forbes, and he has worked with Fortune 500 companies across a variety of industries. He resides in Washington, DC.
Summary
Shedding light on class division, this book reveals implications and solutions to class bias in the workplace by analyzing real experiences, social norms, education, wealth, and more.
