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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED336647 AUTHOR: Maxson, Judith; Hair, Billy
TITLE: Managing Diversity: A Key to Building a Quality Work
Force. Research and Development Series No. 271.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1990
NOTE: 42 p.
AVAILABILITY: Publications, Center on Education and
Training for Employment, 1900 Kenny Road, Columbus, OH
43210-1090
(order no. RD 271: $4.75; 10 copies: $29.95).
ABSTRACT: Economic changes create stress as U.S. businesses
progress toward building a high quality work force for the
year 2000. Skills such as critical literacy, communication,
writing, math, and interpersonal competence are desired.
Critical literacy involves the higher order thinking
skills: the ability to analyze, evaluate, and synthesize.
In addition, employees should be adaptable, trainable, and
retrainable. Older people, women, handicapped persons, and
minority and immigrant workers will comprise the work
force. Changes will take place in both four-year colleges
and technical colleges. Strategies for teaching critical
literacy skills will require changes in curriculum.
Teachers should be in tune with adult learners. In
addition, higher education must prepare itself to serve
diverse ethnic and cultural communities. Faculty need the
support of the college's administration to change
curriculum. Finally, community colleges must improve
linkages with business and industry. Two-year colleges must
make building a high quality work force part of their
mission. Plans of action should be developed for those
groups of people that will comprise the work force. (This
document includes 29 references and 64 supplemental
readings.) (NLA)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Adult-Education; Basic-Skills;
Communication-Skills; Economic-Climate; Education-Work
Relationship; Females-; Immigrants-; Interpersonal
Competence; Job-Skills; Mathematics-Skills;
Minority-Groups;
Older-Adults; Teaching-Methods; Technical-Institutes; Two
Year-Colleges
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Community-Colleges; *Cultural-Pluralism;
*Labor-Force-Development; *Literacy-; *School-Business
Relationship; *Thinking-Skills
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