In today's society, we are truly moving toward a more diverse culture. We are racially diverse, more accepting of people's sexual preferences and open to learning about the culture, experiences and knowledge of those who may have grown up or been exposed to different places than we have. With this said, we must be sure that our working environments reflect the changes that are occurring in society.We must ensure that people of all races, ages, socioeconomic backgrounds and religions feel comfortable in the workplace.

The best way a company can communicate its stance on inclusion in the workplace is to create a diversity statement or policy, and the most effective way to communicate this information is placing it on the web site for future employees and stakeholders to read. What then becomes important to communicators is properly understanding diversity and conveying the company's stance on the web site in a manner in that it is clear, concise, detailed, easy to access and visually appealing to web site visitors.

I would hope that this week's discussion gave you the background needed to understand diversity, examples of web sites with diversity information and practical tips and techniques you can use to help your company place diversity information on its web site. To further assist you, I am attaching a copy of my study. There is actually a listing of the companies and the web sites I used to conduct my research. Hopefully, you can use these web sites to assist you. If you find any information has changed, I still have hard copies of many of the original sites mentioned in the study.

I thank you dearly for this opportunity.