As themanager of human resources(HR)in a medium-size company that isinvolved with several Affirmative Action initiatives, you have noticed that the racial makeup of your workforce has an increasing number of multiracial employees (or workers who are the offspring of a biracial couple). You are wondering how these employees should be counted in any kind of attempt to implement Affirmative Action.

In other words, if future hiring is meant to make the workforce relatively proportionate to the population’s racial mix, should workers who are, for example, offspring of an African-American mother and a Caucasian father be counted as White, African-American, or neither? Explain your answer.

Discuss the following information:

路The trend being seen in the general population in terms of people who could be characterized as biracial.

路Study the following table and comment on the views of multiracial people regarding Affirmative Action found

Interviewees’ Attitudes Toward Affirmative Action

(Korgen, 1999)

路How do you think biracial people should be counted in terms of Affirmative Action initiatives? Explainyour answerfrom an objective perspective.This should be the main focus in your discussion.

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