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Demographers predict that by the year 2000, 85% of the new workers will be a
combination of immigrants, women, and non-European Americans. Increasingly,
workplaces will face the same issues and problems that public schools have been
facing with regard to understanding and utilizing the full range of human
potential within this very diverse population. This two-year research project
is designed to study a selected number of major employing companies with
exemplary diversity training programs and diverse workforces in order to
identify policies and practices that create work environments conducive to the
development of all youth in school-to-work programs.
An in-depth literature review on diversity training will be developed the
first year of this project.
The target audiences for this study's outcomes consist of vocational
educators, School-to-Work directors, human resource directors, policymakers in
education and business and industry, diversity trainers, and professional
organizations (e.g., AVA, ASTD [American Society for Training and Development],
NSPI, NAB [National Alliance for Business], HRD Academy [Human Resource
Development Academy], NBEA [National Business Education Association], AERA).
Dissemination of results will occur through presentation at professional
meetings (education and business) and publications in research, business, and
practitioner journals.
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