The American workplace is at a crossroads; workplace demo- graphics powerfully suggest that managing diversity will constitute a large portion of management's agenda through out the 1990s and into the next century. This article attempts to introduce a new ideological con struct to transform the culture- specific cast of the Eurocentric organization model into a common cultural strain. The idea is that by adopting the concept of "commingling diversity," the problem of clashing cultures and disparate perspectives in the workplace could be attenuated, and the process of managing could ineluctably be transmuted.
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