Diversity In The Workplace

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Diversity is rapidly growing in the workplace and will continue at this pace for the years to come. As the world continues to progress towards a global market, companies must intentionally manage diversity amongst employees in order to benefit the overall organization. Not only is di-versity becoming a widely common topic in organizational behavior textbooks but also in human resource departments in different corporations. Managing diversity is defined as the planned commitment of organizations to recruit and retain employees from diverse demographic back-grounds. A multicultural organization is one where people of varied background, race, and cul-ture come together to contribute their distinctive skill or experience to sustain competitive …show more content…
Introduction
“I was spat upon and told to go back to where I came from. My older sister was told to her face that the company she wanted to work for did not employ black people” (Benjamin, n.d). The quest to achieve equality and diversity in the workplace is not a new phenomenon. Re-searcher Kate McCormick traces diversity back to 1943 and 1948 where President Harry S. Truman declared and signed into act the Executive Order 9981 which eradicated racial inequality in the United States Armed Forces. The fight continued to protect employees from discrimina-tion in hiring, pay, promotion, and fringe benefits on the basis of race, religion, sex, color or na-tionality through the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Through the Civil Rights Act of 1964 the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was created which consists of five presi-dentially appointed members to enforce the elimination of illegal discrimination from the work-place (EEOC, n.d). Unfortunately, 50 years later, diversity discrimination still exists in today’s workplace despite the many federal laws established to prohibit such injustice. However this time around, employers and employees have discretely created an atmosphere