In the Feature Managing the Multicultural Workforce: Rewarding Managers Who

question 14

Multiple Choice

In the feature Managing the Multicultural Workforce: Rewarding Managers Who Achieve Diversity Goals, according to a study by the Society for Human Resource Management, most Fortune 500 companies do all of the following to create multicultural workforces EXCEPT:

• A) do not measure performance against diversity goals
• B) measure performance but do not use compensation to reward success
• C) rely on fair hiring methods to produce a multicultural organization
• D) pay managers to achieve diversity objectives
• E) all of the above are actions that Fortune 500 companies take to attain workforce diversity

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