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Assignment 1: Management to Address Special Needs of Culturally Diverse Employees
A large chain of beauty salons hire you as a consultant. The organization’s management team faces a unique problem. About 1 percent of the employees have speech, hearing, visual, physical, or mental disabilities.
The management believes that it may not be addressing the special needs of the diverse employees because the organization lacks a diversity policy for employees with special needs. The management is also concerned that they may lose these employees to their competitors, who may have diversity policies for their workforces.
For the management prepare a one page diversity policy for employees with special needs. Include the following sections in your policy:
- Diversity Needs To Be Addressed — This section should list the diversity needs that the policy aims to address and your rationale for the policy.
- Retaining Diverse Employees — This section should focus on your recommendations on how the management can attract and retain diverse employees.
- Preliminary Implementation Plan — This section should include your preliminary plan on how the management should implement the policy.
Assignment 1: Discussion Question – Cultural Diversity
Imagine you are asked to participate in a panel discussion on cultural diversity at a college in Birmingham, Alabama. As part of your discussion on the importance of cultural diversity to all types of organizations, you are asked to comment on the diversity of customers, clients, and suppliers as a driver of the need for organizational diversity.
Which three key aspects of this topic would you talk about? Explain why you chose these three aspects. Use examples to illustrate your point.
Assignment 2: Discussion Question – What Diversity in the Workplace Means to You
Over the past several weeks, you have studied numerous perspectives on the current issues involved in understanding cultural diversity in the workplace. In this final module, you will have the opportunity to present your final thoughts on what cultural diversity in the workplace means to you.
Present your final thoughts on leading and managing workplace diversity and what you learned about these concepts throughout this course. What does integrating cultural diversity in the workplace mean to you?
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Management to address special needs of culturally diverse employees.
Having a diverse workforce ensures companies have an advantage over their competitors
since it enables them to meet the needs of their customers better thus successfully competing in
the market (Cascio, 1989).
Implementing the diversity policy involves the creation of a supportive and responsive workforce
in which diversity is highly considered. Diversity is a way in which people differ. Some of the
diversity dimensions are race, gender and any other differences leading to one’s incapacity to
perform a task.
Organizations which implement diversity policies in the inclusion of people with
disabilities in their programs increase their market influence. The disabled add to the review
needed to be successful and bring effective solutions to the business challenges.
Diversity needs to be Address in the diversity program.
Prevent people with disabilities from being harassed: Harassment to the disabled has been a
major issue in the workplace. Recognizing harassment is important in preventing the
discrimination of the disabled in the workplace. Even slight comments made jokingly may be
considered harassment by people with disabilities.
Uphold mutual respect amongst employees: Disrespect among the employees due to superiority
complex caused by disability causes may lead to unnecessary disunity. Once a company faces
the disunity problem its growth may go way too low.
Making the organization’s resources available to all employees: The diversity policy, should be
targeted towards implementing facilities which will make the company’s resources reachable by
all employees, regardless of their disability problems.
Retaining diverse employees
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Once the diversity policy is established, there is the need for the organization to retain the
policy and ensure it is effective for quite a while (Laroche & Rutherford, 2007). There are
several ways through which diversity can be upheld in the organization:
Promote staff unity: This can be implemented by promoting staff training on the need for
diversity upholding through understand...
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