TY - JOUR AU - Cherin, David A. AB - A Tool to Expand Organizational Understanding of Workforce Diversity: Exploring a Measure of Inclusion-Exclusion Michal E. Mor-Barak, PhD David A. Cherin, MSW Title VII of the Civil Rights Act has for the last thirty years opened the doors of corporate America to minorities and women. While the doors have been opened, many feel that Affirmative Action Programs have let? much unfinished business. Today, racism and sexism in organizations have less to do with entering organizations and more to do with inequities once on the job (Seck, Finch, Mor-Barak, & Povcrny, L.M., 1993). These "post employment" issues have resulted in Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC) suits over age discrimination, sexual harassment, wrongful termination, and pregnancylmaternity leave, increasing in some cases by over 700 percent since the mid-seventies (Buncore & Crable, 1986; Goddard, 1986; Swin et al., 1995). These statements depict a sober- ing portrait of organizational problems in coping with diversity today. SO frustrated are many, both politicians and corporate executives, by the continued problems of adjusting to diversity in our work force that cam- paigns are being mounted to dismantle Affirmative Action Programs (AAP) altogether (Swin et al., 1995). Thcsc cfforts to dismantle AAP are happening just as the TI - A Tool to Expand Organizational Understanding of Workforce Diversity JF - "Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance" DO - 10.1300/J147v22n01_04 DA - 1998-02-05 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/a-tool-to-expand-organizational-understanding-of-workforce-diversity-EE3q8lTCaC SP - 47 EP - 64 VL - 22 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -