How do you think biracial people should be counted

How do you think biracial people should be counted/ HR Management

Discussion Board

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 following 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.

Reference

Korgen, K. O. (1999). From black to biracial: Transforming racial identity among Americans. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood.

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