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Rosabeth Moss Kanter (born March 15, 1943) [3] is an American sociologist who is a professor of business at Harvard Business School. [4] She co-founded the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative and served as Director and Founding Chair from 2008 to 2018. [ 5 ]
In her 1994 Harvard Business Review article "Collaborative Advantage", Rosabeth Moss Kanter addressed leaders who recognize that critical business relationships exist "that cannot be controlled by formal systems but require (a) dense web of interpersonal connections". [2]
An eminent example of a book in this category, discussing the topic of organisational culture, is The Change Masters". [2] Rosabeth Moss Kanter notes in the chapter 2 of the book that change should be seen as opportunity rather than see it as a threat. Seen in this way, organisations can be analysed as systems tending towards open or closed ...
Juanne N. Clarke of Wilfrid Laurier University wrote that the movement used Rosabeth Moss Kanter's model of commitment mechanisms to analyze the techniques used to gain women's allegiance. [7] More recently, Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons , by Lynn Peril, cited Fascinating Womanhood as part of a body of literature that ...
A Harvard Business School professor, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, asserted back in 1977 [12] that a token employee is usually part of a "socially-skewed group" of employees who belong to a minority group that constitutes less than 15% of the total employee population of the workplace. [13]
Critical mass (sociodynamics) In social dynamics, critical mass is a sufficient number of adopters of a new idea, technology or innovation in a social system so that the rate of adoption becomes self-sustaining and creates further growth. The point at which critical mass is achieved is sometimes referred to as a threshold within the threshold ...
Wheatley's practice as an organizational consultant and researcher began in 1973, [1] working with Rosabeth Moss Kanter in the firm Goodmeasure, Cambridge, Mass. Kanter mentored her well and is the reason Wheatley moved so quickly into being both a keynote speaker and author.
Feminist scholars such as Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Heidi Hartmann [17] and others [18] have emphasized the role of male homosociality in perpetuating perceived patterns of male dominance in the workplace.