Managing Hispanic and Latino Employees

Chapter 5How to Evaluate the Hispanic Employee’s Performance and Conduct

The previous chapter addressed the concerns of recent Latin immigrants and U.S.-born Latinos, primarily of Mexican and Central American descent, who comprise the majority of Hispanics in the United States who are employed in nonexempt positions. Critics may express concern about the generalization made when categorizing Hispanics in this discussion, but the differences between Caribbean Hispanics and Mexican Hispanics are significant, and encompass racial, ethnic, cultural, and political distinctions. Puerto Ricans, for instance, are Hispanics, and some may consider themselves Latin (in Puerto Rico) or Latinos (on the mainland United States), but the one thing that they ...