Federal Contract Compliance and EEO Any company in the United States that does business with the federal government as a contractor or subcontractor and that has more than 50 employees must have an Affirmative Action Plan (AAP). This plan is designe Continue Reading...
Advice is given to supervisors on how to correct poor appearance and employee misconduct. In these instances, progressive guidelines and other requirements must be taken into account the completing disciplinary actions and in resolving employee grie Continue Reading...
Wards Cove Packing Company vs. Atonio, I do not feel the company hiring practices are discriminatory. When looking at the larger picture, one must realize there is more to running a company than mere canning and preparing salmon, the companies must Continue Reading...
Racial and Ethnic Groups What would you consider the three most important achievements in civil rights for African-Americans since 1900? What roles did White and Blacks play in making the events happen? Probably the three most important achievement Continue Reading...
Adarand v. Pena Summary of Case: Federal and State laws allow race-based remedial action at the federal, state and local government levels. The laws are designed to benefit "socially and economically disadvantaged individuals." At the same time, th Continue Reading...
These two laws constituted the real beginning of the end for Jim Crow laws and practices. EMPOWERING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT The civil rights movement may have gained impetus and cooperation among people with differing opinions and goals from wh Continue Reading...
Human Resources Management If what is learned in an important college or university course is not put to use in some pragmatic way -- or understood in the larger social context -- then that learning may be viewed as meaningless time spent. No doubt Continue Reading...
After all, it was only a few generations ago that the FHA was discriminating against black applicants. Schools are still highly segregated. Race in many ways determines access to social and cultural capital, as well as financial capital. Throughout Continue Reading...
Another valuable lesson is pegged to the necessity to select and hire the most suitable staff members. Then, the equal employment rights stimulate the researcher to adopt a more open view of cultural diversity in the workplace. Additionally, as a f Continue Reading...
The employer has an established protocol for dealing with allegations of sexual harassment, and a sexual harassment complaint triggers protections for the employee. An employee engaging in sexual harassment of any other employees, clients, or busine Continue Reading...
John Brown applied for a job as a grounds worker at a federal facility and was denied employment because of his sexual orientation. He asks you to explain the law relevant to his situation. What if the same thing happened at Boston University? Unf Continue Reading...
Law Enforcement and Hiring Laws Types of Policing Community policing primarily consists of law enforcement through police patrol and presence. Problem oriented policing is very similar to community policing, except that instead of merely patrols ac Continue Reading...
The current business climate being what it is, it is likely that employees and labor organizations will understand the necessity of certain cuts, but the inclusion of employees and/or their representatives in the decision making process is still ver Continue Reading...
They see alternatives and their consequences as costlier and pay very little attention to them. Rationality exists less in public than in private organizations. A public agency's ends often compromise incompatible interests and neither occasionally Continue Reading...
risk in terms of privacy than our medical records...do you agree? Or, are your financial records more at risk, especially given events in the news lately. Which is greater in your mind (yes, you have to pick one)? Why? Although keeping your medical Continue Reading...
g. A Police Office in a large metropolitan area like New York will have different duties and dangers than a County Sheriff in a rural Oklahoma area) (Barlow, 2000). Rightly so, modern society has a certain level of expectations for its military and Continue Reading...
Just as in the realm of economics, different individuals possess different capabilities, aptitudes, and qualifications for different careers. Civil rights issues and equality in academia and employment have progressed to the point where less deservi Continue Reading...
Agency's Law Ethics Hiring a Diverse Workforce Laws Affecting the Agency The first law of robots: robots should not injure or cause harm to human beings or even allow human beings to experience harm. The second law: robots should respect orders giv Continue Reading...
person has to make decisions based upon logic and their individual sense of morality. Sometimes, difficult decisions have to be made either at the home or in the workplace. When such occasions arise, the person must make their choice based on the av Continue Reading...
Organization Behavior Human Resource Management Policies of Wal-Mart Employment Law Wal-Mart Human Resource Management Policies of Wal-Mart Wal-Mart is a large scale multinational retailer that employs more than 2.2 million employees in 27 countr Continue Reading...
Alexis de Tocqueville's analysis is especially important because even in the 19th century he warned that America could not forget the problems caused by slavery and eradicate them from its borders. Creating a new nation like Liberia in which one co Continue Reading...
One of the problems with discrimination laws is that they the law does not have the power to completely cure social problems. For example, affirmative action was a necessary part of the effort towards equality because many employers were simply unw Continue Reading...
Conservatives and liberals differ on the subject of affirmative action too. Conservatives feel that everyone should get to respective positions on merits and reserve discrimination is the not solution. Liberals on the other hand maintain that with Continue Reading...
internal environment seems to be an environment where the competitive forces that form between the employees within a company and that relate to the individual need to be promoted and rise above the others (with all the ugly details this implies) ar Continue Reading...
Miller & Lemons (1998) had identified other problems, one of which was, in fact, exclusion from the old boy networks. They noted the fact that women also often are in a pioneering role as problematical." And they had a very sympathetic viewpoin Continue Reading...
S. Supreme Court's rendering of its decision in Brown v. Board of Education (Brown v. Board of Education, 1954) that overturned the separate but equal standard that had been the law in the United States. In Brown, the Supreme Court recognized that th Continue Reading...
American employment regulations. Employment in the United States is governed by a patchwork of laws that can be divided into roughly three categories. The first are equality-based laws; the second category is laws that govern treatment of workers on Continue Reading...
Furthermore, resentment could be cultivated in society as a whole, as some may feel that they are deprived of the opportunities that minority groups have been receiving with almost no effort at all. In conclusion, therefore, while I believe that it Continue Reading...
Human Resources Managers from three different HR departments (from three separate companies) were interviewed concerning the management, job duties and focus of their respective HR departments. A summary of each of their responses is included below. Continue Reading...
Slavery and Caste Systems When Repressive Policies Linger Slavery in the United States, apartheid in South Africa, and the Indian caste system are now all illegal. However, this does not mean that the consequences of these systems of violence again Continue Reading...
Racial Equality Like other forms of discrimination and bigotry in the United States, racism has thankfully started to tail off and reduce over the years and generations. However, this is happening at a pace that is frustratingly slow and plodding. C Continue Reading...
Managing Diversity Diversity is a fact of American and International business and is a broader, more complex issue than one might initially believe. A universally vital element of global commerce, Diversity has spawned an abundance of theorists, jou Continue Reading...
The U.S. Supreme Court has given employers "little choice" in the matter, Boyd explains. If a company "can prove" they took "reasonable care" in order to prevent or to correct inappropriate behavior, under the law they have (in many cases) "safe ha Continue Reading...
Antiaffirmative action Proposition 209 in 1996 had a similarly divisive effect on the state's population. (Heikkila & Pizarro, 2002, p. 8) The propositions do not welcome immigration, a commonplace occurrence on the official and unofficial leve Continue Reading...
Diversity management is one of the key issues facing corporate America today. Higher number of female workers along with influx of immigrants from various racial and ethnic backgrounds in the workforce has prompted a need for diversity management bec Continue Reading...
Diverse Workforce Today, there are nine billion people in the world living in more than 200 countries and the need for informed approaches to the management of a diverse workforce have never been greater. Effectively managed, a diverse workforce ca Continue Reading...
Baker reviewed three landmark Supreme Court decisions on capital punishment and concluded that the death penalty is capriciously imposed on Black defendants and thus serves the extra-legal function of preserving majority group interests. He viewed d Continue Reading...
2%; 7.8% minority females and 1.51% minority males. Minorities comprise 29.8% of its workforce in the U.S. They are 6.2% Asian, 14.4% African-American, 8.4% Hispanic and .8% Native American. Minorities account for 22.% of its officials and managers a Continue Reading...
Relative to prostitution, "construction" would entail having great awareness of the way that propositions for law and policy reform make the most of or decrease the consensual capacities of sex workers. Paying attention to the issue would entail lob Continue Reading...
Human Sexuality and Homophobia Even in the wake of political correctness, homophobia still haunts many people in our culture. Heterosexuality is still the dominant social expression and any intimate relationship that falls outside the accepted bound Continue Reading...
