Carol Agócs

Professor Emerita

Education

BA Rochester, MA, Chicago, MBA York, PhD Wayne State

Teaching Fields

Women's studies

Research Interests

Public administration (local government)

Publications

Books

Carol Agócs, editor, Workplace Equality: International Perspectives on Legislation, Policy and Practice, The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002.

Carol Agócs, Catherine Burr and Felicity Somerset, Employment Equity: Co-operative Strategies for Organizational Change, Scarborough: Prentice-Hall Canada Inc., 1992, 406 pp.

Chapters and Articles

Carol Agócs and Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, “Performance Management in Canadian Local Government: A Journey in Progress or a Dead End?” in Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly and John Martin (ed), Local Government in a Global World: Australia and Canada in Comparative Perspectives, University of Toronto Press, forthcoming 2010.

Carol Agócs and Bob Osborne, “Comparing Equity Policies in Canada and Northern Ireland: Policy Learning in Two Directions?” Canadian Public Policy, 35 (2), June 2009, 237-262.

Carol Agócs, "Canada's Employment Equity Act: Perspectives on Policy and Implementation," in Reva Joshee and Lauri Johnson (eds.), Multicultural Education Policies in Canada and the United States, Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007, pp. 167-187.

Harish Jain, Pabudyal Singh and Carol Agócs, “Recruitment, Selection and Promotion of Visible Minority and Aboriginal Police Officers in Selected Canadian Police Services,” originally published in Canadian Public Administration, 43(1) 2000, reprinted in Stephen Nancoo (ed.), Contemporary Issues in Canadian Policing, Mississauga: Canadian Educators’ Press, 2004, 280-317.

Carol Agócs, Reem Attieh and Martin Cooke, "Agents of Change? A Study of Equity Practitioners in Canadian Universities," in Marilee Reimer (ed.), Inside Corporate U: Women in the Academy Speak Out, Toronto: Sumach Press, 2004, pp. 198-225.

Carol Agócs, "Systemic Discrimination in Employment: Mapping the Issue and the Policy Responses," Chapter 1 in Carol Agócs, editor, Workplace Equality: International Perspectives on Legislation, Policy and Practice, The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002.

Carol Agócs, "Canada's Employment Equity Legislation and Policy, 1986-2000: Unfulfilled Promises," Chapter 4 in Carol Agócs, editor, Workplace Equality: International Perspectives on Legislation, Policy and Practice, The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002.

Carol Agócs, "On the Need for Effective Employment Equity and Pay Equity Policies in a Global Labour Market," in Richard Chaykowski (ed.), Globalization and the Canadian Economy: The Implications for Labour Markets, Society and the State, Kingston: Queen's University, School of Policy Studies, 2001, 147-153.

Carol Agócs, "Employment Equity: Is It Needed? Is It Fair?" in Mark Charleton and Paul Barker (eds.), Crosscurrents: Contemporary Political Issues, 2nd ed., Nelson Canada, 1994, 394-406; 3rd ed., 1998, 520-531.

Carol Agócs, and Peter Suttie, "Managing Human Resources Information in the Learning Organization," in Candace Deans and Kirk Karwan (eds.), Global Information Systems and Technology, Harrisburg: Idea Group Publishing, 1994, 403-423.

Carol Agócs, and Monica Boyd, "The Canadian Ethnic Mosaic Recast for the 1990s," in James Curtis, Edward Grabb, and Neil Guppy (eds.), Social Inequality in Canada, Prentice-Hall Canada, 1993, 2nd edition, 330-352.

Carol Agócs, "Implementing Employment Equity: The Role of Participation in Organizational Change," in William Lafferty and E. Rosenstein (eds.), International Handbook of Participation in Organizations, Oxford University Press, 1993, 11-32.

Carol Agócs, "Families in Poverty," in K. Ishwaran (ed.), Family and Marriage: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishing Inc., 1989, 307-321 (reprinted 1992).

Carol Agócs, "Race and Ethnic Relations," in James J. Teevan and W. E. Hewitt (ed.), Introduction to Sociology: A Canadian Focus, Scarborough: Pearson/ Prentice-Hall Canada, 1982, 159-97; revised editions 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1992; substantially updated in 1993, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2005.

Carol Agócs, “Surfacing Racism in the Workplace: Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence of Systemic Discrimination,” Canadian Diversity/ Diversite Canadienne, 3(3), fall 2004, 25-28.

Carol Agócs, and Harish Jain, “Systemic Racism in Employment in Canada: Diagnosing Systemic Racism in Organizational Culture,” Directions: Research Reviews from the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, 1(1) 11-29.

Carol Agócs, "Canada's Employment Equity Legislation and Policy, 1987-2000: The Gap Between Policy and Practice," International Journal of Manpower, 23(3), 2002, 256-276.

Carol Agócs, "Institutionalized Resistance to Organizational Change: Denial, Inaction and Repression," Journal of Business Ethics, 16(9), 1997, 917-931.

Carol Agócs, and Catherine Burr, "Employment Equity, Affirmative Action and Managing Diversity: Assessing the Differences," International Journal of Manpower, 17(4/5), 1996, 30-45.

Begadon, Stephen and Carol Agócs, "Limits to Power: A Study of the Influence of Mayors and CAOs on Municipal Budgets in Ontario, 1977-1990," Canadian Public Administration, 38(1), 1995, 29-44.

Finegan, Joan, Carol Agócs and Peter Suttie, "The Introduction of Human Resource Information Systems: Problems and Consequences," Journal of Management Systems, 4(2), 1992, 29 40.

Sept, Ron, Penny Westmacott, Carol Agócs and Peter Suttie, "Human Resource Information Systems: Organizational Barriers to Implementation," Journal of Management Systems, 1(2), 1989, 23-33.

Carol Agócs, "Affirmative Action, Canadian Style: A Reconnaissance," Canadian Public Policy, 12(1), March 1986, 148-62.

Chimbos, Peter and Carol Agócs, "Kin and Hometown Networks as Support Systems for the Immigration and Settlement of Greek-Canadians," Canadian Ethnic Studies, 15(2), 1983, 42-56.

Carol Agócs, "Who's In On The American Dream? Ethnic Representation in Suburban Opportunity Structures, Metropolitan Detroit, 1940-1970," Ethnic Groups: An International Periodical of Ethnic Studies, 4, 1982, 239-54.

Carol Agócs, "Ethnic Settlement in a Metropolitan Area: A Typology of Communities," Ethnicity, 8, 1981, 127-48.

Carol Agócs, "Ethnic Groups in the Ecology of North American Cities," Canadian Ethnic Studies,11(2), 1979, 1-18.

“Surfacing Racism in the Workplace: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to Identifying Systemic Discrimination,” Association for Canadian Studies and Ontario Human Rights Commission, Race Policy Dialogue, Toronto, October 6-8, 2004.

Carol Agócs, "Employment Equity Activity Among Federal Contractors in Ontario," Industrial Relations Issues for the 1990's, Proceedings of the Canadian Industrial Relations Association, 1990, p. 517-529.

Carol Agócs, "Participation in Implementing Organizational Change: The Case of Employment Equity," in Harish Jain (ed.), Emerging Trends in Canadian Industrial Relations (proceedings of the 24th annual meeting of the Canadian Industrial Relations Association), June 1987, 329-350.

Carol Agócs, "Missing Persons: Perspectives on the Absence of Women from Canada's Corporate and Bureaucratic Elites," Organizational Behaviour, 6(5), 1985, 1-14.

 

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