Workforce Diversity Career Development: A Missing Piece of the Curriculum in Academia

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Author(s): Chaunda L. Scott (Oakland University, USA)and Jeanetta D. Sims (University of Central Oklahoma, USA)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 22
Source title: Discrimination and Diversity: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1933-1.ch025

Keywords: Gender & Diversity / Information Science Reference / Medicine & Healthcare / Sociology

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As workforce diversity careers in organizations continue to increase in the United States, less emphasis has been placed on preparing undergraduate and graduate students with specific workforce diversity competencies to pursue these career options once they graduate. The aim of this chapter is to: 1) highlight the issues, problems, and controversies associated with this effort, 2) provide examples of workforce diversity career positions and competencies that workforce diversity professionals possess today in a variety of fields, and 3) offer recommendations regarding how institutions of higher education can begin preparing students with specific workforce diversity competencies to enter the career field of workforce diversity before they graduate.

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