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Achieving Diversity and Reducing
Discrimination in the Workplace

Through Human Resource

Management Practices:
Implications of Research and

Theory for Staffing, Training,
and Rewarding Performance

Winfred Arthur, Jr.
Texas ABM University

Dennis Doverspike
University of Akron

INTRODUCTION

Can human resource (HR) practices be used to reduce discrimination
and achieve diversity in organizations? In addressing this issue, we ac­
knowledge that discrimination and diversity are distinct concepts. Thus,
achieving diversity does not necessarily involve reductions in discrimina­
tory behavior, and the elimination of discrimination does not necessarily
ensure diversity. Still, in the context of this distinction, one could view

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