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barriers it had erected against diversity. Phyllis Scott Buford (1999) noted that people of color, women, gays and lesbians, the disabled, and older workers are important to companies that now value the unique perspectives that employees from varying backgrounds can bring to the workplace.

Increasingly sophisticated companies have found that they simply cannot afford not to hire and actively recruit and advance members of racial, ethnic and other minority groups in their search for the ôbest and brightestö employees. This, says Buford (1999), is because var

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