Workforce Diversity

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    The Right Thing to Do

    Abstract The objective of this assignment is to prove that diversity in the workplace is the right thing to do and it is imperative for the organizations to embrace it. Six papers aligned with this concept were added to give justification for the analysis   From a legal standpoint, companies are illegal to discriminate against someone (applicant or employee) because of that person's race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic

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    Management

    Critiquing the Affects of Globalization, Diversity, and Intuition on Managerial Roles Managerial roles are increasingly more challenging to fulfill with employees, projects and industries spanning across countries and boundaries. With globalization, there are business process differences to overcome, diversity with respect to organizational culture to consider, and the intuitive element is approached from gender perspective as well as its relevancy in shaping managers’ cognitive style. Global change

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    Diversity Assessment 1

    Part A 1. Three major pieces of federal legislation related to diversity Legislation | Explanation | The Racial Discrimination Act 1975 | makes it unlawful to discriminate in employment on the ground of race, colour or national or ethnic origin. | The Sex Discrimination Act 1984 | makes it unlawful to discriminate in employment on the grounds of a person's sex, marital status, pregnancy or potential pregnancy or to sexually harass another person. | The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity

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    Groups and Teams

    (Organizational Behavior, by Robbins and Judge, p. 284, 2009). Different skills of a diverse workforce are an advantage for success of groups and teams within any organization. Promoting a diverse work environment offers group and team members the opportunity to make evident their skills and ideas. These human resources demonstrate creativity, strategies, and a competitive edge over companies of lesser dimensions. Diversity is a valuable resource provided by group and team members of organizations in today’s

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    Case Study: Aging in the Workplace

    Chapter 2 Case Study: Increasing Age Diversity in the Workplace Michael Schmalzer Southern New Hampshire University  OL-500-X2946 Human Behavior in Organization x2946 Abstract Employers face many problems and issues as the workforce demographics increase in age diversity. Some of these issues include age discrimination, increased disability and healthcare cost, loss of expertise due to the inability of employers to retain the older employees and lack of proactive procedures and programs

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    Week 6

    turnover is 10% per year, Landslide’s recruiting and selection strategy must bring in the best employees possible to realize the achievement their organizational goals. Landslide can achieve this if they plan for demographic evolution, create workforce diversity objectives, and develop organizational branding. Additionally, Landslide must come up with effective methods for recruiting candidates that includes screening, interview methods, testing procedures, interview process considerations, and methods

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    Leadership

    week. Therefore, the company needs to make a plan for a long-term policy of giving priority to high-volume customers and processing other orders on a first-come first-served basis because these orders have a great size of diversity. A consultant in organizational change and diversity management asked Mr. Fisher who is the president shares his idea to resolve some racial issues in the company. Mr. Walter Bacon who is the production manager of the company has the responsibility to take him around the

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    Team and Group

    managers. Generally speaking, the term “Workforce Diversity” refers to policies and practices that seek to include people within a workforce who are considered to be, in some way, different from those in the prevailing constituency”(McInnes, 2000) Diversity involves how people look at themselves and how others see them. A company success and competiveness depends on how why will embrace it and realize the benefits from it. BY having a diverse workforce a company can offer more solutions to problems

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    Mt203 Unit 2 Assignment

    Managing Talent: General Motors’ Commitment to Diversity Sophia Laing Kaplan University Mt203: Human Resources Management – 02 Dr Dana Williams January 20, 2014 General Motors the automobile giant had problems within its’ company where equal employment opportunities (EEO) were not practised. This resulted in the women and the minorities making complaints to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commision (EEOC) about the disparate treatment that they encounter and the need for something to be

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    The Impact of Cultural Diversity Within the Hospitality & Tourism Industry

    Table of Content I. Introduction 3 II. Cultural diversity 3 II.1. Advantages of cultural diversity 4 II.2. Disadvantages of cultural diversity 5 III. Organizational Culture 5 IV. Management strategies to overcome issues related to cultural diversity 7 V. Globalization 8 VI. Conclusion 9 VII. References 11 I. Introduction Immigration plays a big role in today’s business world. Especially the hospitality and tourism industry is highly affected, as this industry offers a large number

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