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Article: Diversity training: the often-forgotten but necessary ingredient of any employment training program.
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- Public Management
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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Your supervisors have been trained on all of the "dos and don'ts" of the workplace mandated by federal and state employment law. You have implemented continuing training programs on employment issues for them, and you think your local government is prepared for any turn of events.
For many employers, however, there is a serious gap in their employment training programs. That gap is caused by the absence of a well-designed diversity training program that actually ties together and completes the equal employment training repertoire and addresses diversity issues in the workplace.
Most employers do not recognize the need for such training until it is too ...