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Diversity
Of all the challenges regarding the increasingly diverse demographic composition of the workforce today, the challenges posed by the difficulty balancing work and family is perhaps the greatest for management. This issue's cope touches in some measure upon all of the other issues combined regarding the 'problem' of workplace diversity. Women work more hours than before, thus they must balance their commitments between work and family. This means men are called upon to share more of the family burden, forcing today's male employee to cope with similar challenges as his female colleague with a family. Even families without small children must cope with the aging of their parent's generation, and individuals from different ethnic, racial, or cultural backgrounds may come to the workplace with different expectations of what it means to be part of a family, or a corporate culture. This is true on a global as well as on a national level, and will impact the ability to form a cohesive attitude on a work team.
One way to combat the difficulties of balancing work and family life, or the personal and the vocational has been to integrate some home comforts, such as day care, gyms, and even personal services into the corporate environment. This helps individuals to feel as if they do not have to choose between being good parents or good employees. It gives them personal places to connect with their families and areas to de-stress and reinvigorate their minds and body over the course of the workday. Also, incorporating education about different cultures and attitudes is another effective strategy for management. This can increase the ability for work not to simply seem like work, but to be invigorating for the individual's mind and life development. On a macro level, workplace education helps the corporate organization create better employees and better teams, and also may even help with their global strategy. For example, a Japanese-American woman who can discuss, during a sensitivity training session, her parent's different attitudes to aging, health, and medicine, and gender relations might give ideas to an advertising team later on how to pitch a new product to a Japanese test market.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 "bans discrimination, including sex-based discrimination, by trade unions, schools, or employers that are involved in interstate commerce or that do business with the federal government" the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination in a broad array of private conduct including public accommodations, governmental services and education. One section of the Act, referred to as Title VII, prohibits employment discrimination
Military Diversity Diversity in the Armed forces For over three decades, military diversity has been a very complex topic within the defense units or national security departments for many nations. This arises when it comes to matters of conceptual and practical leadership, as well as the managerial implications. It represents one of the most essential, but challenging topics for the human resource management departments that leaders within the armed forces have been
Diversity and Global Understanding -- Irish & Dutch Immigration What were the contributions of the Dutch and Irish immigrants to America by the 1870s? What was the pattern of the Dutch immigration into the new country and what was the pattern of the Irish as they flowed from Great Britain to America? These and other issues will be addressed in this paper. The Literature on Irish Immigration into America Where did the Irish
Diversity management is one of the key issues facing corporate America today. Higher number of female workers along with influx of immigrants from various racial and ethnic backgrounds in the workforce has prompted a need for diversity management because lack of the same can cause serious legal and performance problems. Diversity management refers to the strategies that seek to create a positive and healthy environment for everyone at the workplace.
Diversity Profile and Plan -for a public or non-Profit organization. Description and Overview In the current scenario, the U.S. workforce has turned out to be more diversified than any time in U.S. history. Efficiency and effectiveness today can be gauged from how employers manage and handle this diversified workforce. The current demographic shift has been caused by the growth in not only Asian but also African-American, as well as, Latino communities. Growth
If a company does not know what is really needed for a particular position, the company will have trouble hiring for that position (Harvey & Allard, 2012). Recruitment of the right person (or people) for the job. Some jobs require much more skill than others, and some can be very specialized based on the kind of person needed for the line of work (Mujtaba, 2007). Because that is the case,