Focus On diversity in the workplace

Michigan Chronicle, February, 2006

Michigan Chronicle 02-14-2006 Diversity hiring has increased dramatically in recent years. More and more employers are realizing that consumers want to deal with companies that "are similar to them." According to Loden and Rosener in the book "Workforce America," a good starting point for valuing and managing diversity is to view everyone as different from one's self and as people about whom one can make no assumptions.

The most important principle to live by as stated by the authors is The Platinum Rule: "Treat others as you want to be treated." Sounds easy, right? So why is the statistical research on the lack of representation of minorities and females within the higher pay bands in the workplace still alarmingly low, and why is turnover so much higher for...

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