Additional Case $4\mathrm{.}3$

Your retail company has $80\%$ of its stores located in downtown metropolitan areas. Your blgest stores are in communities where minorities represent $60\%$ of your customers. Your middle$-$management team has been changing over time so that $50\%$ of your managers are women and about $30\%$ are ethnic minorities. A significant number of your hourly employees, about $35\%,$ have served over $20$ years in thelr respective stores and many are over $40$ years of age. Top management feels that AfricanAmericans are under$-$represented in the hourly workforce and in middle management. They want HR to initiate an aggressive recruitment process to address the situation.

Hepenies are the blegest minority group, besides women, in your workforce. In a discussion about where the company should target its diversity progam, the CEO explains she wants to implement a training program for managers to raise their sensitivity to minorities, especially Hispanics. She also notes that there are no disabled persons in the workforce and very few Aslan$-$Americans. Carlos, the VP of facilities, notes that he has accommodated at the Adius$-$Revican employees he can in his Mis and facility support services. He also argues that he only has about $$10,000$ in his budget for reorganizing display space in the stores to accommodate disabled employees and that this amount probably isn't sufficient to accommodate a disabled employee.

Refer to Additional Case $4\mathrm{.}3.$ Which of the following is a true statement about older workers that management should consider?