Beyond Race and Gender

Chapter 6

Research: First Steps Toward Managing Diversity—Culberson Industries

The Defense Application Laboratory (DAL) of Culberson Industries’ defense products division has the responsibility for developing new defense products. The technology involved is often “top secret.” Once the government declassifies a technology, DAL researches possible consumer applications. The defense products division then licenses the most viable possibilities to its sister Culberson divisions, all of which manufacture and market a wide range of consumer products. Indeed, historically over 30 percent of the division’s net profits have come from this source.

In the 1960s and 1970s, DAL earned a reputation as being the affirmative action front-runner within the division ...