HR Issues raised in the News Story
One major issue raised by Christie’s news story is discrimination. Stone (2013) discusses the significance of diversity – different race, ethnicity, religion, cultures, age, and gender – working in an organisation. He argues that a diverse and inclusive work environment gains a competitive advantage as it encourages competitiveness despite the conflict that may arise due to differences in values and cultures (Stone, 2013). Bedi et al. (2014) agrees with Stone’s assertion that diversity increases an organisation leverage because there are different perspectives to problem-solving and decision-making, attracting and retaining a highly skilled workforce, and developing synergy in teams through diverse mindset …show more content…
Stone (2013) states that companies use two main recruitment methods, namely internal and external recruitment sources. He further notes that a company’s recruitment policy presents a plan for recruiting procedure and mirrors a company’s recruitment goals (Stone, 2013). Aluwi and Saihani (2013) offer a similar view regarding Stone’s argument about a company’s recruitment policy and goals stating that liberal and flexible recruitment policies contain a framework that dictates the selection process, thus, allowing diversity. Here, the main idea is having a concise recruitment policy that contains the company’s values that is implemented to the latter. The authors argue that it is one thing to have a policy and another to implement the policy (Aluwi & Saihani, 2013). Christie’s news report states that Coles made its values regarding recruitment known to the subcontractor, but the subcontractor went ahead and infringed those values. This damages our reputation because we might be known to be equal-employers on paper, but not implementers of the same. As a result, Coles risks being a liability because the ad contravenes the Tasmania Anti-Discriminatory Act 1998, which states that entities should not publish or cause to display any notice or advertising that showcases discrimination or related conduct (Christie, …show more content…
Hence, it is important that we remodel our policy to inculcate diversity and create a gender, race, disability, and religion rule that ensures all individuals are represented in our company. For instance, we can have a one third gender rule for women to work at Coles. According to Bedi et al. (2014), this will create a diverse and cohesive workforce as well as attract highly skilled workers from the minority groups.
In order to enforce our inclusive culture, Coles should amend its existing policy to create a favourable policy that prevents challenges associated with diversity from creating problems. Training new employees from different cultures and having translators from the diverse workforce willing to orient members of their cultural groups will solve the problem of communication barrier (Prause & Mujtaba,
One major issue raised by Christie’s news story is discrimination. Stone (2013) discusses the significance of diversity – different race, ethnicity, religion, cultures, age, and gender – working in an organisation. He argues that a diverse and inclusive work environment gains a competitive advantage as it encourages competitiveness despite the conflict that may arise due to differences in values and cultures (Stone, 2013). Bedi et al. (2014) agrees with Stone’s assertion that diversity increases an organisation leverage because there are different perspectives to problem-solving and decision-making, attracting and retaining a highly skilled workforce, and developing synergy in teams through diverse mindset …show more content…
Stone (2013) states that companies use two main recruitment methods, namely internal and external recruitment sources. He further notes that a company’s recruitment policy presents a plan for recruiting procedure and mirrors a company’s recruitment goals (Stone, 2013). Aluwi and Saihani (2013) offer a similar view regarding Stone’s argument about a company’s recruitment policy and goals stating that liberal and flexible recruitment policies contain a framework that dictates the selection process, thus, allowing diversity. Here, the main idea is having a concise recruitment policy that contains the company’s values that is implemented to the latter. The authors argue that it is one thing to have a policy and another to implement the policy (Aluwi & Saihani, 2013). Christie’s news report states that Coles made its values regarding recruitment known to the subcontractor, but the subcontractor went ahead and infringed those values. This damages our reputation because we might be known to be equal-employers on paper, but not implementers of the same. As a result, Coles risks being a liability because the ad contravenes the Tasmania Anti-Discriminatory Act 1998, which states that entities should not publish or cause to display any notice or advertising that showcases discrimination or related conduct (Christie, …show more content…
Hence, it is important that we remodel our policy to inculcate diversity and create a gender, race, disability, and religion rule that ensures all individuals are represented in our company. For instance, we can have a one third gender rule for women to work at Coles. According to Bedi et al. (2014), this will create a diverse and cohesive workforce as well as attract highly skilled workers from the minority groups.
In order to enforce our inclusive culture, Coles should amend its existing policy to create a favourable policy that prevents challenges associated with diversity from creating problems. Training new employees from different cultures and having translators from the diverse workforce willing to orient members of their cultural groups will solve the problem of communication barrier (Prause & Mujtaba,