Effect of Racial Colorblindness on Employee Productivity

Timothy J. Surette, Roger Williams University
Diane M. Harvey, Roger Williams University
Susan M. Bosco, Roger Williams University

ABSTRACT
This paper will explain the negative impact that racial color blindness has on workplace stress, and productivity. With increased diversity in the workplace today, managers and employees need to understand the consequences of their actions, and how to handle ethnic and physical differences effectively. Although increased stress levels have sometimes been proven to increase productivity levels, stress derived from negative emotional labor due to interracial interactions decreases productivity in the workplace and creates a hostile environment. Ignoring racial differences is an ineffective ideology in the workplace, and should be replaced with a multiculturalist view. .

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