Managing Hispanic and Latino Employees

Part IIIThe Hispanic Employee and the Organization‘s Future

The single-most important issue for Hispanic, Latino, and Latin nonexempt employees (“blue-collar” Hispanic, Latino, and Latin workers) is how they are perceived by their non-Hispanic colleagues in the workplace. Hispanic employees, more than non-Hispanics, express frustration at the career advancement roadblocks they encounter in the workplace. The traditional ways to signal to managers that an employee is ready for greater responsibility—documenting achievements and responsibilities in the current position, scheduling a meeting to discuss their roles and career objectives, requesting to move to the “next” level within an organization—often fail to work for Hispanics as a demographic ...