Interviewees attitudes toward affirmative action


Assignment:

As the manager of human resources (HR) in a medium-size company that is involved 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 below information:

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

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

Interviewees' Attitudes Toward Affirmative Action

View on Affirmative Action

Overall

Pro-AA and in favor of biracial persons qualifying

58%

Mixed feelings about AA but believe all biracial persons should qualify

23%

Pro-AA but unsure whether or not biracial persons who appear white should qualify

4%

Pro-AA but believe biracial persons who appear white should not qualify

4%

Opposed to AA but believe biracial persons should qualify as long as it exists

11.5%

(Korgen, 1999)

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

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