This assessment focuses on the issue of Hotel Laeta’s corporate social responsibility and its duty of care towards the Indigenous Australian people.
Background
Aboriginals Australians are technically the first people who lived in Australia. Australian Aboriginals were basically the hunters who used to eat the animals they caught and were also considered as gatherers of plants which could be eaten. Some of these groups then settled on the islands and are now called as Torres Strait Islander People.
1. Foundational Aspects of Indigenous Australian Cultures (the dreaming and economic organisation)
The term dreaming is a spiritual or a regional perception which not only goes back to the creation of the events but it also grasps the present …show more content…
Many initiatives have surfaced and many policies have been developed to assist in improving living standards and socio-economic outcomes of the Indigenous people. However, the Indigenous population as a group continues to experience many significant disadvantages from birth to death compared to the non-Indigenous population. Community disadvantage can be defined as the complex cluster of factors that make it difficult for people living in certain areas to achieve positive life outcomes. It emerges out of the interplay between the characteristics of the residents in a community e.g., employment, education levels etc. and, over and above this, the effects of the social and environmental context in which they exist i.e., place effects or neighborhood effects, such as weak social networks, poor role models and a relative lack of opportunity. The major links between this continuing socio economic advantage can be pointed out as lack of opportunities to Australian Aboriginals, racism or discrimination, lack of education or employment, high rates of violence which is due to illicit drug use , mental health issues …show more content…
• As far as the Australian Aboriginal community is concerned, the hotel needs to focus on ways by which it can create employment opportunities for the community.
• Hotel Laeta will make sure that it’s job advertisements are not discriminatory
• Hotel Laeta will focus on taking strong as well as positive steps to recruit and then train Aboriginal people.
• The hotel will actively focus on attracting as well as recruiting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates.
• Creating a career path where the hotel will be developing some programmes to support Aboriginal as well as Torres Strait Islander People in a career in hospitality industry. The programmes therefore will be designed in such a way where it will provide candidates ample amount of opportunities where they can demonstrate their skills regardless of their experience.