Diversity within General Motors

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Assignment should be at least 600-800 words and a review of the essays submitted about General Motors.

This week, compile, refine, and revise the work you have completed in Weeks 1–3, and add the following Literature Review section analyzing research on diversity:

  • Literature Review
    • Select 1 diversity topic that has been addressed in the company that you are studying (e.g., hiring more women or recruitment efforts for Hispanic people) for further research.
    • Conduct a literature review on that topic, and add the research findings to the paper (600-800 words).
    • This literature review section should include a minimum of 4 peer-reviewed journal articles.

Your Key Assignment Draft due this week will be an APA-style paper including all of your work from Weeks 1–4. The Key Assignment Draft should include the following sections (objectives from Weeks 1–4):

  1. Company Information
    • Give a brief description of the company that you will be studying throughout the course.
  2. Diversity Overview
    • Identify the company’s diversity policies, procedures, initiatives, and programs.
    • Summarize the efforts that the company has made to address diversity throughout the organization.
  3. Leaders and Managers
    • How does the company that you selected address diversity at the highest leadership levels?
    • Does it demonstrate a corporate responsibility related to diversity?
    • Do the leaders and managers encourage a corporate culture supporting diversity?
  4. Diversity Data
    • Include any available statistical data on the company’s diverse populations (gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, etc.), and analyze whether the data support the company’s stated efforts to support diversity.
  5. Strengths and Weaknesses
    • Identify the strengths and weaknesses of the company relating to diversity.
    • Discuss how its diversity strengths and weaknesses impact upon perceptions of fairness, justice, social problems, social change, and respect.
  6. Effectiveness
    • Are the company’s efforts effective?
    • Explain how the company’s policies and programs positively impact perceptions of fairness, justice, social problems, social change, and respect.
  7. Literature Review
    • Select 1 diversity topic that has been addressed in the company that you are studying (e.g., hiring more women or recruitment efforts for Hispanic people) for further research.
    • Conduct a literature review on that topic, and add the research findings to the paper (600-800 words).
    • This literature review section should include a minimum of 4 peer-reviewed journal articles.

The KA Draft must include a minimum of 8 scholarly resources (4 of which must be peer-reviewed journal articles within the literature review section).

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Running Head: LITERATURE REVIEW, HIRING MORE WOMEN

Literature review, hiring more women

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LITERATURE REVIEW, HIRING MORE WOMEN

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General Motors aim is to encourage more women to work for them. General Motors
presently has more women employees than any other automotive manufacturer. The automotive
industry has been quite dominated by men: according to a United States report (2010 Equal
Opportunity Employment Commission report), women in the manufacturing industry consisted
of under twenty-one percent of the total employees in the U.S, only sixteen percent were found
in the senior management position (Barsh & Yee, 2012). General Motors strategy was the first in
the industry. Its partners and other dealers have offered over $75,000 in bursaries to women in
Canada and the U.S. since 2010. This strategy has developed progressively, facilitating the
growth of the number of women competent to enter sales, automotive retailing, management, and
marketing among others (Barsh & Yee, 2012).

In the article, “The glass ceiling: Women and mentoring in management and business”,
(Akande, 2013), they evaluate the importance of breaking the glass ceilings on gender through
empowerment of women. General Motors has employed a huge number of women in the past
years hence making more of them rise to power. In 2013, Mary Barra rose to the top of the GM
ladder shattering the gender to become the chief executive officer (Akande, 2013). She claimed
the title role in the beginning of 2014; this was after she was in major executive positions in the
company like being executive vice president as well as the vice president of the General Motors.

In the article, “Unlocking the full potential of women at work”, (Barsh & Yee, 2012)
analyze the opportunities for internships being given to women who have been out of work for a
period of two years especially engineers. The General Motors Company is a member of the
career firm iRelaunch’s STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) and Society of
Women Engineers and c Re-Entry Task Force. Also, they lengthened the wome...


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