How do American Airlines, Radio Shack and Cadbury Schweppes address diversity in the workplace? That's the focus of the Spotlight on Workforce program later this month.

Sponsored by WorkSource for Dallas County and Job Center for the Dallas Morning News,  the breakfast is scheduled for 7:30-9:30  a.m. Jan. 26 at the Park City Club, 5956 Sherry Lane, 17th floor. 

Participants in the program's discussion include Joyce Hameen, Manager of Diversity, American Airlines; Kenneth Reeves, VP of Diversity, Radio Shack; and Terri Harrell, VP of Corporate Diversity, Cadbury Schweppes.

This event is $25 for members and $50 for prospective members. Register online or contact Shel Anderson at 214-746-6734 with questions. For information about the Chamber's Workforce Development Initiatives, please contact Shannon McCullough at 214-746-6788.

According to the Dallas Morning News, "U.S. companies finally see profits in creating a workforce that "looks like their customers," says Ms. Herrera-Malone, marketing chief for the Irving-based National Society of Hispanic MBAs.

"Thanks to globalization, high immigration and the surge of women into the workplace, diversity is in the corporate spotlight. Yet even as companies roll out diversity initiatives that reach the executive suite, the business world is finding it difficult to reshape itself to look more like the U.S. marketplace.

"The number of minorities in the workplace is climbing, but the top executive suites remain overwhelmingly white and male.

"Corporate America may be doing a better job of recruiting women and minorities, but retention and promotion remain issues because few businesses create an environment that encourages a culture of diversity, experts say. 

"In the U.S., minorities are expected to make up 34 percent of the labor force by 2012. The biggest percentage gains from 2002 through 2012 will come from Asians, with a 51 percent increase, and Latinos, with a 33 percent increase, the government says."