Professional Fast Track: Who will be promoted to explore?.

<P> Keywords: Raiders career fast track career advancement career job hopping </ P> <P> Oprah Winfrey (Oprah Winfrey) others may not understand the situation of the workplace that some of the mystery. .Is well known that Winfrey is a multimillionaire founder of a media empire, the empire includes not only hosted her own talk show, also including "O" magazine, a members-only website, books and even weight loss .training camp. .By choosing their own television and radio networks operating in the Nashville news anchor began his career, Winfrey might avoid a lot of black women trapped in bad luck for the work. .Recent labor economist at the Wharton meeting with human resources experts point out that compared with men and white women, black women are less likely to be promoted. .This week two major U.S. trade union AFL-CIO decided to pull out, claiming it failed to prevent the loss of union members, nor try to push labor reforms. .In the meantime, to participate in "professional and career transition: new evidence of the new economy," the meeting was the unspoken rules for promotion, "who was promoted, when promoted, why promotion" to start the debate. .The meeting was chaired by Wharton Center for Human Resources, and supported by a career transition consulting firm DBM sponsorship. .Scholars from different sources provided - Fortune 500 companies, call centers, the Canadian company - the evidence, the use of evidence in different ways were analyzed. .However, there are two results of recurring: the possibility of ethnic minority women were promoted far less than other people, and white men, the most likely to be promoted. .Other studies have investigated the promotion of conditions - including the "fast track" concept, corporate restructuring on the career development and internal staff and external employees newly promoted to the possibility. .The objective of the meeting is to understand the modern labor markets operate - it was agreed that the current economy seems to be among the employees in the company more liquidity - and its significance to employees. .Justin Wolfers (Justin Wolfers), a Wharton professor of business and public policy, he said, "The most important theme is thought to determine the factors for career advancement within the company. People of this persistent, some scholars .that the management policy is important; some differences in demographic characteristics were considered important. look at the types of management policies, some companies have so-called academic internal labor market, and some regard employees as the company is actually in the spot market can be bought and sold .. "fast lane" Peter Principle, "University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign PhD student Pablo Ah Costa (Pablo Acosta) describes the personnel files of a U.S. company based on research. .With several of his colleagues, Acosta found that whites, men and better-educated workers more likely to be promoted..