Giving Notice: Why the Best and Brightest are Leaving the Workplace and How You Can Help Them Stay (Jossey-Bass, October 2007) offers a first-of-its-kind look at how hidden bias and hidden barriers are having a costly and profoundly negative impact on Corporate America. Despite the fact that companies are spending billions on programs to create more diverse and welcoming environments, the results, for many, have fallen far short of success. For example: Why are there so few minority CEOs? Why aren't more women, people of color, and gays and lesbians reaching higher rungs on the corporate ladder? Why is genuine talent being overlooked and squandered?

The answers to these and other questions--along with no-nonsense recommendations--are presented by Klein and her team of co-authors (Kimberly Allers and Pulitzer Prize winner Martha Mendoza) in a format that is low on jargon and high on readability.Findings from Level Playing Field Institute's groundbreaking and rigorous nationwide study on voluntary turnover due to unfairness are presented alongside real-life stories gathered by Klein during her decades of work as a researcher, trainer, and consultant--including focus groups and individual interviews with thousands of employees from companies like Microsoft, Home Depot, Goldman Sachs, and Skadden Arps.

Giving Notice offers readers a comprehensive blueprint for understanding and correcting the thought errors that are rampant in many of today's workplaces. When these errors go unchecked, the economic, societal, and human capital consequences can be catastrophic. The book challenges readers to re-examine their ideas about biases, barriers, stereotyping, and other forms of workplace unfairness, and to rethink "commonly accepted business practices" that will continue to hold US companies back, even as they begin to face severe talent shortages.