Affirmative action and corporate emotional health programs

Using the New York home office of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States as a model for corporations in general, this paper addresses four major areas concerning the psychology of success or failure of minorities in newly acquired "corporate elite" jobs: (1) the nature of the corporate mandate for making Affirmative Action work; (2) the stressors unique to minorities in corporate life and the effects of such stressors; (3) the Equitable's response to its minority employees' stress-related symptoms; and (4) recommendations aimed at assuring the success of minority employees in organizational life.