Chapter 4: Managing Workforce Diversity

Chapter 4: Managing Workforce Diversity
Challenges

After reading this chapter, you should be able to deal more effectively with the following challenges:

1. Link employment equity programs to employee diversity programs to ensure that they support each other.
2. Identify the forces that contribute to the successful management of employee diversity within an organization.
3. Reduce potential conflict among employees resulting from cultural clashes and misunderstandings.
4. Draw a profile of employee groups that are less likely to be part of the corporate mainstream and develop policies specifically directed to these groups' needs.
5. Implement human resource systems that assist the organization in successfully managing employee diversity.