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This article addresses the need to enhance both group diversity and individualism in the workplace by shifting attention away from affirmative action principles and strategies, as they are commonly implemented, and by focusing more on securing a comprehensive, or full spectrum, diversity in the workplace To do so, an accompanying shift in organizational paradigm must also occur, from one externally-driven to one that uses internally-based incentives to accomplish full spectrum diversity A workplace strategy is constructed which attempts to (1) eliminate the perceived or actual weaknesses found currently in many affirmative action practices and (2) maintain and enhance the asset of diversity m the American workplace.

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From Affirmative Action to Full Spectrum Diversity in the American Workplace

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