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Diversity Action Plan

Diversity Action Plan
University of Phoenix
May 21, 2007

Superior Essex
Superior Essex Inc. is a Fortune 1000 company and one of the largest wire and cable manufacturers in North America. The company is also a global leader in communications cable and magnet/winding wire industry. The organization is headquarters is located in Atlanta, GA employing more than 4,000 people in the United States and around the world. Superior Essex is currently a $2 billion multi-industry corporation with its primary focus on the fabrication of wire and cable. Superior Essex has 20 manufacturing facilities located in the United States, Mexico, Europe, and China, serving thousands of customers across the world through the experience, excellent craftsmanship, and the dedicated employees who have made the organization successful.
When it comes to diversity, Superior Essex is in the running. With the many different facilities that are owned by the company, in different locations and different countries, diversity within the organization is inevitable part of daily life. The Brownwood, Texas plant employs 465 employees, which 25 % of them are Hispanic and 15 % are Black. Of these 465 employees about 30 of them are women. The Brownwood plant employees work together to manufacture copper wire and fiber optics cable. Brownwood is just one of several plants located in the United States.
There are three other plants located in the United States; one in Chester, South Carolina; Hoisington, Kansas; and Tarboro, North Carolina. All together, these plants employ 517 people. These facilities are all wire and cable producing plants. Tarboro is the most diverse of the three. Of the 212 workers at the Tarboro facility, the majority of them are Black, including the human resource manager and her assistant, and there is not a great deal of women working in this plant.
Because the Tarboro facility does not employ very many women, the US Department of Labor regularly conducts a...