Managing Diversity: Releasing Every Employees Potential I. Defining Diversity Diversity represents the multitude of individual differences and similarities that exist among people. It is not an issue of age, race, or gender. It is not an issue of being heterosexual, gay, or lesbian or of being Catholic, Jewish, Protestant, Muslim, or Buddhist. Diversity also does not pit white males against all other groups of people. Diversity pertains to the host of individual differences that make all of us unique and different from others.

II. Affirmative Action and Managing Diversity A. Affirmative Action An outgrowth of equal employment opportunity (EEO) legislation. The goal of this legislation is to outlaw discrimination and to encourage organizations to proactively prevent...