Willing to respectfully speak out and suggest ideas on improving the work place to management and human resource personnel. Be open-minded, non judgmental and truthful. That is why the U.S. is a magnet to the many talented people from the rest of the world. That influx of talents benefits all of us and bring a diversity of intellectual capital that has no second in the world. However, diversity is more than a function of the personnel department.
Diversity goes beyond the plant doors, the office and the boardroom.
It goes into the community in which a corporation does business. While the U.S. is facing the largest cultural shift in history, corporations that want to succeed in the new millennium must change with the times. The change is essential not only in hiring practices, but to developing new products and new marketing techniques to appeal to the changing consumer market, here and abroad. Forward-looking corporations see diversity as a strategic business imperative that could yield profits through doing business with diverse suppliers, from lower costs to better or unique business solutions, to just being able to better market their own products to this growing segment of the economy. This new generation of minority entrepreneurs is often college-educated, technology savvy, have corporate experiences and access to capital to take their businesses to new levels.