Companies may try to lower their labor costs by laying off higher paid workers.
Typically the higher paid workers will be professionals who have worked their way up over time and tend to be older, while younger workers fresh out of school and looking for their first jobs will be more willing to take lower salaries.
Pluralistic organizations believe in having a diverse employee population and actually strive to achieve that. A multicultural organization values diversity within their employees but does not have diverse group of people working for them. Although pluralistic organizations believe and strive to have diverse employees, they are not the best at being trained and knowing how to address the cultural differences.
To delve into the underlying meaning of the terms, "stockholder" technically means the holder of stock, which can be construed as inventory, rather than shares. Conversely, "shareholder" means the holder of a share, which can only mean an equity share in a business. Thus, if you want to be picky, "shareholder" may be the more technically accurate term, since it only refers to company ownership.
