The Society for Human Resource Management released the results of a survey about workplace diversity.

The 1,400 HR professionals surveyed mostly agree workplace diversity is important — but only 30 percent could define it, according to the report.

Excerpts from the report:
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• 52 percent said that to a “large extent,” diversity practices created a work environment or culture that allows everyone to contribute all that they can to the organization.
• 49 percent said the practices achieved appropriate representation of racial and ethnic groups.
• Similarly, 48 percent said that to a large extent, the practices enhanced the ability of people from different backgrounds to work together effectively.
• Still, diversity management remains a challenge. Respondents said that, among other hurdles to diversity management, the field is not well-defined or understood, focuses too much on compliance, and places too much emphasis on ethnicity and/or gender.
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