Assignment - UNDERSTADING THE ASIAN AMERICAN AND LATINO MIGRATION EXPERIENCE

A. Internet Exercise-

Part A.

Use the Internet to find out about the stereotype of Asian Americans being the model minority? Search Key Worth: model minority Asian Americans

Now answer the following questions?

1. What is the Model Minority Stereotype?

2. How can this impact Asian Americans in the workplace

3. Despite being seemingly positive, how is this a harmful stereotype?

Part B.

Go to http://leaRN.latpro.com/hispanic-culture-at-work/ or if this link does not work go to Google and search: Hispanic/Latino culture at work.

1. Summarize what the article stated in one paragraph.

2. Provide three tips that as a manager you could utilize in the workplace

B. End of Chapter Exercise-

Immigration

Some companies want to hire individuals with a unique set of talents and skills that state they can't find in American applicants for their jobs. They look outside the country for individuals with those skills, and help them obtain working visas. Diversity takes on a new dimension in the workplace when it involves bringing in people who may be unfamiliar with life in the United States. It can cause friction among employees, and it can spur creative new ideas that improve a company.

Anger

Some Americans do not agree with bringing in immigrants to work in U.S. companies. They feel that qualified unemployed Americans could fill those positions and that the immigrants work for lower wages. The lower wages offered to immigrants could be seen to suppress wages for similar positions staffed by Americans. Diversity in the workplace brought about through immigration can be a difficult subject for some companies' managements to tackle. Continued use of diversity training and open communication with employees about companies' reasons for hiring immigrants may help alleviate the problem.

After reading about immigration laws and understanding how cheap labor and skills of those who provided cheap and free labor helped to build the U.S., what is your viewpoint on this workplace employment perspective? (Don't just say...I agree or don't agree-please support your answer).