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Submitted by dvm1day on December 1, 2005
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Diversity and Ethics
University of Phoenix
MGT 431
Diversity and Ethics have a profound effect on an organization's staffing practices and selection of tools. Before you can understand how diversity and ethics have these effects one must understand what diversity and ethics are.
Diversity
Diversity is the presence of individual differences, such as gender, race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, and the ability to perform various tasks. An organization that completely values diversity will have management that makes diversity a priority and practices it. An effective manager can practice diversity by executing the following seven steps: focus on getting the best talent, develop career plans for all employees, provide career mentoring by diversity cohorts, promote minorities to responsible positions, maintain accountability for diversity goals, make diversity part of organizational strategy, and build diversity into senior management. Members of an organization that practices embracing diversity are skilled at working together despite of the difference of the employees (Schermerhorn, Hunt, & Osborn, 2005).
Since there is growth in the diversity of the labor force there is a growth in the racial and ethnical terms surrounding it too. The fastest growing groups of people in the workforce is Hispanics and Asian and other minorities. It is believed that these groups are growing the fastest because of immigration and birthrates that are above the national average. The increase of women joining the workforce is on a rise as well. Since there is a large diversity in the work force, then the role of the Human Resources Manager (HRM) has an increase number of challenges (Noe, Hollenbeck, Gehart, Wright, 2004). A HRM needs to remain neutral at all times, setting aside their own believes and opinions. When hiring new staff a HRM can not treat one applicant differently than another based on race or gender. DCH Auto has...
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