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Managing Diversity in Public Organizations

The continuing trend of change in the ethnic and racial make-up of the population in the United States, together with trends in the social, political, and judicial environments in the last years of the twentieth century, are combining to increase the complexity of the human resource managerial task for public administrators. The continuing trend of change in the ethnic and racial make-up of the population in the United States is not only increasing the diversity of the population from which public employees are drawn, but also is leading to greater ethnic and racial balance, as minority population groups increase proportionally while the majority European-American population segment decreases proportionally.

While population trends will increase pressures on public administrators to strengthen organizational diversity, however, concurrent social, political, and judicial trends will cause this task to become more complex and difficult. While a majority of the population in the United States continues to express support for the concept of equality of opportunity, there is simultaneously increasing resistance among the general population to specific programs, such as "Affirmative Action," designed to assure such an outcome. Further, it has become an unfortunate political tactic to pander to such concerns by attempting to dismantle or starve such programs. Lastly, the federal judiciary, while recognizing the merit of the intent of such programs, increasingly is ruling against the ways in which such programs are implemented and administered.

As a consequence of these conflicting trends, the public administrator in the last years of the twentieth century and the early years of the twenty-first century must be prepared to develop innovative approaches to the problem of managing diversity in public organizations. This problem is investigated in this study.

One research question is investigated in this study. This research ques...

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