DIVERSITY IN THE WORKFORCE INTRODUCTION: There is a growing and continuous interest in workplace diversity within management and organization studies. This interest can be traced back to Johnston and Packard’s (1987) influential report, Workforce 2000, which alerted organizations to the dramatic demographic changes that were in the process of transforming the North American workforce. (Prasad, 1997). Managing diversity at the workplace presents many dilemmas. Confronted with constant change, management, business educators, and organizational consultants continue to meet …showed first 75 words of 954 total…

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