Diversity in the workplace

Article Review on Diversity in the Workplace

In the article Ten Myths about Affirmative Action , Plous talks about the myths that many people think about the way that affirmative action acts and how it affects people in the work place . The premise of this article is to inform the reader about the myths and then to dispel those myths . The goal of Plous is to show how the people that argue against affirmative do so by using myths and misunderstanding (Plous , Ten Myths , par .1 . The myths that are talked about range from

the comment that affirmative action has done nothing to aid in the representation of females and minorities in the workplace to the comment that affirmative action is nothing short of a liberal idea by Democrats to social engineer the workforce (Plous , Ten Myths , myth 9 . Plous also does a nice job of wrapping the article up by saying that regardless of what the argument against affirmative action is , it does its job of counteracting prejudice and making the work place as much of a level playing field as it can ever be (Plous , Ten Myths , par . 13

I enjoyed reading this article because it was interesting to see the reasons and excuses that people will use to argue against affirmative action . Nothing in this world is perfect , and like all things affirmative action does have its glitches , but it also has a lot of positive sides to it that many forget to look at . It is the...