Diversity in the workplace: how much have things really changed? With an increasingly diverse workforce due to changing demographics, the landscape of the labor market and dynamics of the relationships at the workplace are also changing.

Latino Leaders › Vol. 6 Nbr. 4, August 2005

Author: Lora, Francis

Position:: Michael Montelongo - Interview

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Michael Montelongo - Interview

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Diversity in the workplace: how much have things really changed? With an increasingly diverse workforce due to changing demographics, the landscape of the labor market and dynamics of the relationships at the workplace are also changing.

Companies are now trying to be more sensitive to the multicultural composition and distinct makeup of their employee base. Some places have entire departments and segments of their recruiting teams dedicated solely to creating, promoting, and managing diversity and "diversity issues," while others outsource these responsibilities to other companies and organizations. Most places even go as far as to offer "Diversity Training" as if having a varied workforce were an unnatural phenomenon.

Nonetheless, the pendulum seems to be swinging the other way from trying to keep Latinos and other "minorities" out, to trying to bring them in. It seems that more and more large corporations are waking up to the population shift that has been occurring and trying to take advantage of it to capture a lar...

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