Diversity
In today's business world, diversity in the workplace is a very important topic. The significance of this subject increases proportionately as the workforce and community become more and more diverse in age, religion, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and socio-economic status. In an ideal world, everyone would be treated equally, but unfortunately this is not the case even when it comes to getting a job, advancing ones career, or even just being treated fairly in the workplace. In this paper I will examine the effects of the diversity in ethnicity, age, gender, and religion.
Ethnic Diversity
 Although slow and begrudgingly, Americans today are expanding their tolerance limits when it comes to learning about the ethnic history and background of others. Throughout American history there have been many societal upheavals that have taken place regarding ethnic diversity. There has been the civil rights movement, rising African-American consciousness and the resurgence of ethnicity. There has also been a backlash against these movements. Ethnic diversity has caused many changes to take place throughout history (Ostrom, 1990).
 When it comes to ethnic diversity in the workplace it has been and will continue to be a great challenge. The cost of ignoring and not meeting the challenge of ethnic diversity can be costly. This can be seen at Coca-Cola and Texaco. Both of these organizations had put in place policies and programs that had appeared to promote diversity and protect them from legal claims. Even with these policies and programs in place they have found themselves subject of discrimination lawsuits. These lawsuits have cost them quite a bit of money, their reputation, time and focus. In the case of Coca-Cola, they spent more than ...