century. While the American labor force would become somewhat more diverse by the year 2000, "white males would continue to play an important role, and the much talked about labor shortage is unlikely to make it difficult to find skilled workers early in the next century."
While there will be some diminution in the quality of the American workforce by the year 2000, most employers now know that, rather than "spending much of their energy reacting to conditions presented by the media and government reports," they must "better define the demand side of their own workforce equation" before rushing into programs that may become white elephants and albatrosses.
Most employers, and all sensible and rational employers, thus, are proceeding carefully in the development of plans that are tailored to their own labor demands for early in the next century, while pushing the WORKFORCE 2000 report to a dusty corner of the office bookshelf. In some companies, the actions being taken
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