Latino Millennials—The New Diverse Workforce

Challenges and Opportunities

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6064397
AutoresDonna Maria Blancero (0000-0002-8643-8382, Bentley University, Waltham, MA, USA), Edwin Mouriño-Ruiz (Rollins College, Orlando, FL, USA), Amado M Padilla (0000-0003-2449-4714, Stanford University, CA, USA, autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Volumen40
Número1
Páginas3-21
Fecha de publicación2018-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0739-9863 • E-ISSN: 1552-6364
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0739986317754080
OpenAlexW2788424001
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas19

There are a variety of trends that are enabling and forcing organizational change. A crucial trend that has implications for a changing and growing demographic workforce includes Millennials and in particular Latinos/Hispanics as the world and particularly the U.S. workplace continues to have an increased aging workforce. Yet, while Latinos are members of the largest and also the fastest growing minority group in the United States, they are disproportionately underrepresented in more highly compensated professional and leadership roles across corporate America. The majority of existing career development and acculturation literature in the United States has focused narrowly on Anglo-oriented acculturation as a linear process. Unfortunately, as society has evolved so has the form of prejudices and biases. This is supported by the fact that well more than 50% of Hispanics experience discrimination through a variety of means including micro-aggressions. We believe that developing and maintaining an overlapping and compatible bicultural identity might not be enough and that we need to rethink what acculturation and biculturalism means for millennials and broaden our thinking to include cosmopolitanism as more encompassing of the millennials and their place in the world. We believe this article begins the dialogue for more research into this growing part of the U.S. workforce along with practical implications and applications

Acculturation · Aging in the American workforce · Biculturalism · Immigration · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Workforce · Gender Diversity and Inequality · International Student and Expatriate Challenges · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research