Diversification of the American Workforce: Impact on Interaction betwee

Diversification of the American Workforce Impact on moveion amidst Managers and EmployeesAbstractThe diversification of the American Workforce has changed the way managers interact with employees. This diversification is due to tighter labor markets, increased immigration, and women entering the workforce. Cultural factors, non present before, have caused managers to develop mod methods of tasking, motivating, and educating these diverse employees. Essentially these new methods have been a change in interpersonal behavior, the way a manager acts and re-acts to employees. This change in behavior was necessary to increase productivity and maintain a private-enterprise(a) edge in the market place.I. accessionIn my Cultural Anthropology course, I had to learn and memorize the definition of elaboration Culture is an organized system of learned behavior patterns, always make manifest in a convocation, making that group distinctive from opposite groups This definition was the bas is for my understanding and talent to learn about new(prenominal) people, different than myself and from different backgrounds, during my studies in Anthropology and Psychology. This definition has the key element of what acculturation is, a system of behavior distinctive to a particular group of people. These behaviors range from cultural norms to religious beliefs.In business, the effectiveness of an organization rests on the ability of the management to interact with its employees and to motivate the workforce to accomplish the stopping points of the company. This ability of interaction between the manager and the employees depends on the managers understanding of the cultural differences between himself and his employees. The masculine form is only being used as pillow slip for the purpose of this paper. It is understood that the managers give most likely be manlike or female.An organization is affected by cultural factors on many a(prenominal) levels. The top management forms the basic foundation of an organization when they set the aboriginal goals for that organization, the reason the organization is in business. An example would be that a political machine company in the United States of America would have the ultimate goal of making large amounts of profit for its stakeholders. This goal is derived in the base cultural tenant of capitalism. The United States was founded with capitalist ideas and so American managers will have capitalist ide... ...behavior towards diverse employees and learn to understand the cultural differences between them will undoubtedly increase productivity and gain a competitive edge in the market place. VI. ReferencesBernstein, A. and Rozen, S. (1992). Neanderthals at work. New York John Wiley and Sons, Inc.Bowman-Kruhm, M. and Wirths, C. (1998). variation and prejudice. New York Rosen Publishing.Burns, J. (1978). Leadership. New York Harper and Row.Chaleff, I. (1995). The courageous follower. San Francisco Berlet t-Koehler Publishers.Creating a diverse workforce. (n.d.) Retrieved work on 1, 2003, from http//www.businessweek. com/adsections/diversity/diversework.htmDaft, R. (1988). Management. New York The Dryden Press.Devoe, D. (1999). Managing a diverse workforce. Retrieved March 1, 2003, from http//archive.infoworld.com/articlesKotkin, J. (1993). Tribes how race, religion, and identity watch over success in the new global economy. New York Random House.Kowalenko, K. (2000). change magnitude diversity in Americas science, engineering, and technology fields. Retrieved March 1, 2003, from http//www.spectrum.ieee.org/ present(prenominal)/dec2000