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Entering the new millennium, businesses throughout America faced a new challenge. Analysts believed that this new challenge would have a powerful impact on our future as a productive society. However, few American businesses seemed adequately prepared to deal with the new challenge-the increasing cultural diversity of the American workforce (Online.Diversity).
Today, the challenges and potential opportunities posed by employee diversity in the American workplace are a growing reality. Since 1970, the number of women in the labor force has doubled. In 1990, they constituted 46% of the workforce. In 1985, people of color made up 13% and by 1988 that percentage had risen to 18%. During the next decade, women and people of color are expected to fill 75% of the twenty plus million jobs created in the United States. By the year 2010, white men will account for less than 40% of the total American labor force. In addition, diversity in age, ethnic heritage, physical ability, religious belief, sexual orientation and work and educational background are also increasing in the workplace as American society continues to become more culturally segmented (Loden, Rosner 3).
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Diversity has not only increased in the American workforce; throughout the U. He approaches the well-dressed observer and asks him to direct him to the executive conference room, he replied that he was standing in it. population-accounting for just 37% of the total (Online human). Companies need to view change as normal and healthy.
„h Among the top twenty-five urban markets, people of color now make up the major population in sixteen (Online human).
The ability to innovate is equally critical the successful management of human resources.
Managing the increased workplace diversity has posed many challenges for American businesses. Instead of following the old rules, they are rewriting the rules in response to today¡¦s workforce realities (Online. A management philosophy, valuing diversity assumes it will be more successful as individuals, work teams, organizations and a society if it acknowledges, respects and works with all the dimensions of the differences. At the same time, those in the 16-24 age group declined by almost 2 million or 8% (Online. Our society has been changing rapidly: Since the 1990¡¦s the demographics within the American workplace has undergone dramatic shifts away from the European-American, male majority of the past towards a more diverse and segmented populace.
As employee diversity continues to increase, the days of the tried and true methods for managing human resources has become obsolete. Can I get you some coffee or juice before we begin?¡¨ The new hire speaks aloud to himself ¡§ten senior people and only four white men! What kind of company is this anyway? Rodney replies, ¡§Why, your typical American company of course.
„h In the same decade, the American workforce continued to mature with those in the 35-54 age group increasing by more than 25 million-from 38% of the workforce in 1985 to 51% in 2000.
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