Diversity in the Workplace

Diversity in the Workplace 2
Diversity seems to create so many heated discussions. This is truly astonishing, especially in our country the United States of America. People seem to forget that a ripe mixture of cultures, religions, and social status founded the United States. Looking back and learning more about our backgrounds gives us a broader perspective of others. It is this vast mixture and variety of human beings, diversity, which created the strongest and greatest nation to date. Diversity has so many dimensions: nationality, physical ability, language, and ethnicity are just a few. Diversity also manifests itself in a great variety of norms, cultural values, individual goals, department and organizational mandates. Optimizing these dimensions and variety of diversities provide opportunities for me and for people like myself to utilize their cultural background in any work place in this nations.
By the year 2000, according to Reginald Owens, 50% of the U.S. workforce will b...