by George Leard

Created on: March 19, 2010

Does diversity in the workplace ensure work place equality?

It will take several generations, before diversity will be able to bring a level of equality to the workplaces, due to several underlying reasons.

Diversity should be seen by leaders, as an asset in the process of organizational development; where the best candidates are recruited, regardless of their race, gender, physical disabilities, geographic locations, ethnic origins, value systems or cultural orientations. However due to the long history of racial discrimination, gender bias, and strong oppositions to change, equality will not come to the USA, Japan, or any other countries that has institutionalize this practice.

The national demographic of a country, should be used as the basis to establish diversity in the workplace; meaning the same ratio of each group on a national scale should be represented in all workplaces.

This can only be achieved, when the colleges, universities, and other training institutions, adopt the same strategy and enforce it, so that employers can have the available candidates to recruit from. However, this would require concerted efforts to achieve, in order to bring equality to the workplace. The souls of nations have been eaten out by discriminatory employment practices, and attaining equality will bring about a measure of healing, but true honesty, and ethicality have been covered by layers of greed, dishonesty, and insecurities.

Many organizations are unwilling to change, because there are no laws that are effective enough to penalize them, and they can simply say that they are Equal Employment Opportunity compliant, but when the demographics of their workforces are analyzed, they invariable are always skewed towards homogeneity. In their defense, they will simply say that they cannot find the females, Hispanics, Asians, African Americans, or physically disabled persons to recruit, and there will be no evidence to proof that they are lying, thereby reducing the change of bringing equity to the workplace.

According to www.ethnicmajority.com, most Americans would agree that cultural diversity in the workplace utilize our countries skills to the fullest extent, and contribute to our overall growth and prosperity. The reality of the situation is, that it is not happened, and progress remains very slow.

Equality will start to make serious progress among the rank and file, and among managers and supervisors, when the diversity begins to happen in the board rooms, among senior

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