Remedial action

The Link Between Diversity and Equality Management Practice Bundles and Racial Diversity in the Managerial Ranks: Does Firm Size Matter? Diversity and equality management (DEM) has been a legal requirement since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. However, in recent years, organizations and leaders have realized the value of a diverse workforce and the competitive advantage the diversity brings. Researchers have suggested that DEM practices such as enhancing the cultural competence of…

different cultural background could bring innovation, improvement, and cultural values. Even though diversity can expand our moral horizon, it is not acceptable to favor a group because of its ethnicity. For example, when the cases of affirmative action make a difference in college application, it undermines many students hard work just because they are parts of majority. According to the Sandel’s example in the book, when a college student Cheryl Hopwood applied for University of Texas Law…

He first distinguishes between voluntary and involuntary actions, citing actions done by ignorance and by force as the only conditions of an involuntary action. According to Aristotle, an action done by force “has its principle outside the person forced, who contributes nothing,” and an action done by ignorance is caused by ignorance of the particulars (Aristotle, 31). These particulars are specific aspects of a situation and…

Race Relations in the United States has been a volatile subject dating back as far as we know and can read in history. The United States and its citizens have long created plans to tackle these conflicts that arise from race relations, yet they seem nothing more than good simple ideas that have grown into forced approaches on society. Ideas that have changed and evolved over time to be only a sliver of the original tone and plan to begin with. If one doesn’t follow these opinions, you could be…

The Industrial Revolution of the 18th century brought a rapid expansion of industrial society to Europe, and specifically Britain. Industrialization lead to a large increase in the work force, as people moved from rural areas to urban city centers. As businesses rushed to capitalize on the market they hired workers without any systematic hiring scheme or contract. To maximize profit on the part of the owners, employees would be forced to work long shifts for very low pay. Working conditions in…

Job Discrimination is when someone is denied a job or assignment for non-job related reasons. Job discrimination can happen without one’s knowledge. For example, a close friend of mine told me he quit his job. The company he worked for would not promote him due to his skin tone. They told him he would be a great fit and most likely would get the position, only to give it to his colleague. Also, at my place of employment, they do not hire male teachers. We have one male teacher as a floater but…

startled and move away performing a sequence of steps called an c-start used as an escape mechanism, the name was give due to their characteristic shape. The intricacies of the c-start are important to figure out why such an escape reflex comes to action; the escape reflex is studied on the Goldfish (carassius auratis) by Mirjany…

When Affirmative Action first came into existence, it was not well received. A lot of scholars did not believe it was necessary. A scholar specifically named Thomas Sowell believed that Affirmative Action had a reversed outcome than what the creators had intended. He asserts that “Policies initiated to help the disadvantaged ended up helping the privileged within the preferred groups instead. Policies intended to insure intergroup harmony led to intergroup resentments and violence.” Also he…

Affirmative action is a policy favoring people who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education; affirmative action is considered positive discrimination. Nicolaus Mills wrote this article Rethinking affirmative action after analyzing Columbia University’s professor Manning Marable 's biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. In the biography, Marable examines the late Malcolm X ideas, theories, and ideologies in many different aspects in which Mills…

College Paper 1 Paper 1. College Essay It is high time that corporations and economies as a whole embrace the value that diversity plays in both the work place and our communities. Too long has this been thrown under the table and not given the attention it deserves. According to the Business Journal “Diversity represents a broad spectrum of people and perspectives, and includes acceptance and respect” (businessjournal.com, 2016). As a matter of fact, diversity is the bonding agent that leads…