How do Black Males and Employers Benefit from SRCD for Workplace Success?
With employers as investors in human potential, SRCD challenges them to play a more proactive role in the development of social welfare that supports workforce diversity and black males. For businesses to sustain themselves as profitable entities and be perceived as non-threatening to black males, employers must adopt supportive policies and attitudes in the hiring and retention if they are to be successful with this population. By doing so, employers will gain potential workers with skills that might otherwise be put to use in a life of crime. Using SRCD practices such as coaching, career counseling, mentoring, skills training and role modeling, disadvantaged black males will experience workplace success that will help them become productive workers, develop positive life-building skills and academic and vocational achievements. Skilled occupations such as bookkeepers, managers, customer service, sales agents, marketing planners and much more, reflect skills many black males can apply
