Anwar Venture Corporation human resource manual and sexual harassment policy

Anwar Venture Corporation - Human Resource Manual 2008

Company History

Organizational Mission

Organizational Vision

Organizational Values

Employees of the Company

Organizational Structure

Sexual Harassment Training Program

Employees to Attend the Training Session

Content Outline for the Training Program

Examples to Illustrate Training Materials

Process and Method of Investigation of Sexual Harassment

COMPANY HISTORY

Anwar Venture Corporation is a corporation that provides venture funding to business start-ups. Anwar Venture Corporation was founded in 1990 by Mr. Gann Anwar and Mr. Ian Sidwa. Anwar and Sidwa are both disabled Vietnam Veterans who established themselves in venture capital funding in the 1980s. The truly unique aspect of this company's venture capital funding strategy is the requirement that the business on the receiving end of venture capital funding from Anwar Venture Corporation is hiring of disabled and handicapped workers and most specifically, the hiring of United States armed forces veterans who have either become disabled or handicapped as a result of their service time in the U.S. armed forces. Anwar Venture Corporation provides venture capital funds on a worldwide basis with the home base of Anwar Venture Corporation being in Atlanta, Georgia.

II. ORGANIZATIONAL MISSION

The organizational mission of Anwar Venture Corporation is to provide venture capital funding for new business start-ups that show promise in their product and strategic framework and that employ disabled and handicapped U.S. armed services veterans.

III. ORGANIZATIONAL VISION

Anwar Venture Corporation envisions lucrative employment opportunities for U.S. service members who are handicapped or disabled following their term of services in the U.S. armed forces in contrast to the all too pervasive unemployed status of many disabled and handicapped armed services veterans.

IV. ORGANIZATIONAL VALUES

Organizational values have as the basis the principle of upon equal employment opportunities for all individuals regardless of race, sex, gender, ethnicity, religious choice, political choice, and regardless of their status as a disabled or handicapped veteran. Other organizational values include the following:

1) Honesty;

2) Integrity;

3) Productive and motivated workers;

4) Promotion of a workplace that respects all individuals;

5) Promotion of a workplace that enables all employees to excel and achieve their individual best;

6) Lucrative investments, which serve to raise company earnings and further the organizational mission of Anwar Venture Corporation.

V. EMPLOYEES of the COMPANY

Anwar Venture Corporation presently employees 3,770 individual, more than 50% of which are disabled and handicapped U.S. armed services veterans. These individuals are located in 12 locations around the world including Spain, the UK, Africa, India, 3 South America locations, New Zealand, and Australia.

VII. SEXUAL HARASSMENT TRAINING PROGRAM

Anwar Venture Corporation will not tolerate sexual harassment in any form whatsoever and individuals having been found guilty of committing acts of sexual harassment will be immediately and irrevocably terminated from the employment of Anwar Venture Corporation. Sexual harassment may take several forms including:

1) Physical (touching or making other unwanted and inappropriate physical contact);

2) Verbal (innuendos, suggestiveness, catcalls, whistles, comments on someone's body, telling inappropriate risque jokes, etc.);

3) Insinuated sexual interchange through making motions, which are sexually suggestive in nature.

1. Employees Required to Attend the Training Session

All Anwar Venture Corporation employees will be required to attend sexual harassment training as well as will all companies that will be in receipt of Anwar Venture funding in their business venture.

2. Content Outline for the Training Program

The sexual harassment training program will provide the following training material:

a) Definition of sexual harassment;

b) Manner of acting or use of language that constitutes sexual harassment;

Outcomes of commission of sexual harassment;

d) Procedures for reporting sexual harassment;

e) Methods of dealing with inter-workplace sexual harassment incidents;

f) Procedures for documenting sexual harassment reports;

g) Procedures for handling the complication of sexual harassment in the workplace;

h) Procedure for dismissing employees who have been guilty of sexual harassment.

A i) Ongoing training and support for keeping sexual harassment out of the workplace.

3. Examples to Illustrate Training Materials

Training materials will include case scenarios of various types that illustrate clearly, what constitutes sexual harassment ensuring that no employee is unclear about what sexual harassment is after having fulfilled the requirement of the sexual harassment training module.

4. Process and Method of Investigation of Sexual Harassment

Upon an employee reporting an incident of sexual harassment, a full investigation will ensue. This investigation will be assisted by an independent sexual harassment caseworker in order to avoid any possible bias in the assessment of the alleged incident.

Anwar Venture Corporation: Human Resource Manual 2008