Throughout the United States, more minorities are being hired;
             however, minorities continually face barriers to advancement once the
             hiring process is complete. Therefore, the cure all solution instituted by
             Human Resource departments to sponsor diversity training initiatives has
             not addressed the predicament of minorities being overlooked for regular
             As the world continues to become smaller through the use of new
             technologies like the Internet and the business community also is facing
             all new challenges because of the highly competitive global economy,
             America's labor markets continue to tighten. Human Resource departments
             have addressed these twenty- first century concerns by hiring more
             minorities than at any other point in our nation's history. But, once
             hired, minorities find that there could be clear and observable barriers
             blocking growth related to their career path. "It sounds like an employer's
             worst nightmare. A minority employee fails to receive a promotion. He sues
             the company, charging racial discrimination. His white supervisor -- who
             has already resigned to take a job with higher pay at another company --
             joins in the suit. The supervisor claims that he was first pressured not to
             promote his subordinate and then, after he supported the subordinate's
             complaint of discrimination, was denied a promotion himself." (Barrier &
             Basically, racial discrimination in the work place means that far too
             often qualified minorities are stopped from moving up corporate ladders
             within their organization. In other words, when minorities are getting jobs
             they cannot automatically assume that the job also entails future promotion
             to the next job level through regular promotions. This issue is at the
             forefront of racially motivated problems that Human Resource professionals
             will have to contend with as globalization demand a more diverse labor
             Organizations like the...