By Andrie Steven


Want a confirmed morale booster at your company? Have your supervisors understand to thank their workers for a job well done in the workers' native language. Not just a very simple "thank you," but a number of phrases addressing the certain task and how it was done.

How about giving your managers the communication tools to explain procedures and safety rules and to know they're being understood? What much better solution to improve safety and to retain happy, productive workers? Everybody advantages. But, who has time to implement these adjustments?

Let's face it, most employers are burdened using a time crunch, to say the least. Too busy to send their supervisors or employees out to lengthy and pricey language courses off-site. On the other hand, most managers and supervisors are aware of a communication gap they cannot afford to ignore.

Based on the National Immigration Law Center, "new immigrants... accounted for 50.3 percent of the growth in the civilian labor force among 1990 and 2001. Assuming that today's levels of immigration stay constant, immigrants will account for half of the working-age population growth among 2006 and 2015 and for all of the growth between 2016 and 2035"!

This influx is no longer restricted to the coasts. In Minnesota, where I live and perform, teaching workplace particular language expertise to managers and staff, the majority of my contracts involve Spanish-speaking employees. But immigrants by the thousands are settling in Minnesota from India, Pakistan, Europe, Russia, the Middle East, Asia, Southeast Asia, Pacific Islands, Eurasia, Africa, Guyana, Latin America, the Caribbean, South America and Mexico. I've learned that the growth of immigrant workers is now affecting all fifty of our United States and will have an incredible impact on future economic conditions for every person.




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