Impact of Diversity on Human Resources

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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