DIVERSE WORKFORCE

Diverse Workforce

Diverse Workforce

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Workplace diversity continues to be both an interest and a concern to organizations worldwide. Efforts to provide greater access to corporate careers for groups that have been historically discriminated against is not new. However, what is more modern is the examination of how inherent and subtle biases, as well as privileges, may facilitate the movement of some groups up the corporate ladder—while constructing a glass ceiling for others. Managing diversity efforts that focus on more closely examining the organizational norms, values, and practices that enhance or impede diversity can therefore be met by appreciation as well as resentment and backlash by organizational members and the public at large (Stockdale and Crosby, 2004). This entry identifies reasons for continued interest in diversity matters and distinguishes workplace diversity initiatives from other organizational efforts to promote workplace equity, such as equal employment opportunity and affirmative action.

Workplace diversity is a broad and complex phrase that means many things to many people, perhaps because as a larger society (Thomas, 2005), we are continually challenged by what it means to have a diverse society. For example, changes in the demographic makeup of the American population have accompanied an evolution in how society thinks and even talks about diversity. The diversity metaphor has progressed from talking about the United States as a melting pot to discussing society as being a mosaic.

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The concept of recruitment refers to efforts by organizations to actively motivate, retain, and facilitate working relationships among African Americans, Latinos or women who are demographically different and from a variety of backgrounds. Recruitment is the process used by organizations to locate and attract candidates for employment (Ryan and Tippins, 2004). Depending on the job and purpose of the recruitment effort, companies attempt to attract large numbers of candidates, fill vacancies quickly, seek people who ...