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Assessing Diversity Across Cultures: A US-Hispanic Perspective

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The purpose of this study was to compare workplace diversity perceptions between a US and Hispanic population. This study used the diversity perceptions of a sample of US business students and compared them with a sample of Hispanics using the Reaction to Diversity Inventory (RDI). This study suggests that Hispanic perceptions of diversity are quite different than may be intuitively perceived or portrayed in the literature. This study is one among a limited collection of research on Hispanic perceptions of diversity behaviors in the US workforce and illustrates how cultural values of majority-minority populations can potentially impact the design and implementation of diversity initiatives, especially within a global workforce environment.

This chapter is reprinted with permission from Vernon Thompson, editor of the World Journal of Social Science Research. Originally published in that journal as an article in Vol. 5, No. 3, 2018.

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Seda-Cuevas, N.M., Rojas, R.R. (2020). Assessing Diversity Across Cultures: A US-Hispanic Perspective. In: de Aquino, C., Rojas, R. (eds) Diversity and Inclusion in Latin American and Caribbean Workplaces. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35419-0_12

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