In surveying workplace demographics across locations, Latisha Gibbons, the Swish HR manager, observes that new female and minority hires are much more likely to be hired away by Swish's rivals than nonminority hires. She is concerned and suspects that minority employees are reacting to a chilly climate for them in the workplace. Charles Clarke, Swish's CEO, is less concerned, attributing the attrition to Swish's rivals' stronger visibility among markets serving women and minorities. Which of the following, if true, would support Clarke's position that the firm does not have a diversity problem?
A) The corporation's code of ethics specifically prohibits any form of employment discrimination.
B) Statistical analysis of middle- and top-management levels reveals no evidence of gender or ethnic bias.
C) The firm's vice-president for operations, the CEO's most powerful associate, is a Latino female.
D) The firm recently instituted a system-wide voluntary training program in diversity sensitivity.
E) The newest advertising campaign creates catchy versions of brand slogans in Spanish as well as English.

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Statistical analysis of middle- and top-management levels revealing no evidence of gender or ethnic bias would indicate that the firm is not biased in its hiring and promotion practices, and that the attrition may be due to external market factors as Charles Clarke suggests. The other choices do not directly address whether the firm has a diversity problem or not.

In Surveying Workplace Demographics Across Locations, Latisha Gibbons, the Swish