Relational Barriers in Organizational Systems – there are three issues in this section:
Ø There is compelling evidence that women and ethnic minorities experience limited access to or exclusion from informal communication networks.
Ø Different for white men and women and people of colour involves that of establishing mentor-protégé relationships.
Ø Confronts women and minorities is tokenism.
Ø “Tokens” performance are hindered because of the pressure to which their visibility subjects them and because members of the dominant group exaggerate differences according to stereotypes.