Emancipatory Claims Of Diversity: Improving The Workplace

For the last few decades corporations have tried to create a diverse operational environment for the improvement of the workplace. While providing a diverse workplace, employers need to provide equality, equity and fairness in the respective aspect for all the social groups that feel and/or are identifies with a specific organization. When we talk about equality, we are referring to the adjustment and adaptations that a company will make to provide the same opportunities for any of their employees in the aspects of work compensation, benefits, work titles, job opportunities, and others. Moreover, when we talk about equity, we are referring to providing the employees what they need to be on the same level of based on what they can offer to the …show more content…
As I understand, there are 2 major aspects of emancipation, macro and micro. The macro-emancipation is related with social changes and adaptation in a society (organization). And micro-emancipation is related with the daily activities. I do believe, that the macro-emancipation is related with the fairness of minorities, in other words, it is associated with how the company will hire, and compensate, and evaluate several minority groups. And the micro-emancipation claims are associated with the personal treatment, and communication with these minority …show more content…
The EEO refers to the equal opportunity that each applicant will receive during the hiring process regardless of factors such as gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, political ideology, age, disables and others. This should warrantee that all the applicants will be equally considered and evaluated for the specific job, as long as she/he meets all the requirements of the job, and that the person is able to perform the job duties required by the company with or without accommodations provided by the organization and/or specific company’s department. In addition, the Affirmative Action (AA) is a procedure that will give some favoritism to the minorities groups that are affected by discrimination. I do believe, that the first law (EEO) is a vital factor to avoid discrimination on the work place, and it could aid to increase the diversity of the organization at the same time. On the other hand, I do understand that the AA will give opportunity to the discriminated groups, but it could affect the hiring process or promotion process since the company seem obligated to provide “help” to those minorities groups; therefore, the company could lose well-prepared and ideal candidates as a result of applying this