Briar Woods Industry
BUSI 4406
Case #1
Briarwood industries
May Ebotoke 0460972
Dr. Malika Das
FEB 28,02,2013
Problem
Many groups have benefited from diversity initiatives, but women have benefited the most out of all the other groups. Even though women still have a long way to go in terms of corporate, economic, and government leadership. Till this day gender is playing a large role in social construction. Some of these issues and factors are within the control of women and some are not we can clearly see this implemented in this case. Briarwood seems to have great opportunities for employees to excel and move up in the organization but it is not apparent that these opportunities are equal for both men and women. Also on an individual basis there is a lot of competition, even though competition is healthy at times, in this case it seems to be more hurtful that it is helpful and caused tension between employees. Also in many organizations the same way there are standards and guidelines that are clearly stated but with this promotion not information was provided to the people that were interested like Diane Williams of what the organization was looking for Diane Williamson felt like she should have been the one to be promoted to the vice president position, she is not receiving equal pay for her positions and that top management is not recognizing its employees achievements and not rewarding them for a job well done.
Analysis
Diane has worked there for many years and she had moved up in the company and had helped it grow in many ways. She feels like she had been a great asset to the company and an amazing team player. Though with all of this in her back ground and under her belt she had lacked to show this to top management or even stand out in her group “ I wouldn’t want to take all the glory for something that was the product of team effort”. She feels that she had worked very hard to make it as far as she did and that she had sacrificed a lot for this job “when the
Case #1
Briarwood industries
May Ebotoke 0460972
Dr. Malika Das
FEB 28,02,2013
Problem
Many groups have benefited from diversity initiatives, but women have benefited the most out of all the other groups. Even though women still have a long way to go in terms of corporate, economic, and government leadership. Till this day gender is playing a large role in social construction. Some of these issues and factors are within the control of women and some are not we can clearly see this implemented in this case. Briarwood seems to have great opportunities for employees to excel and move up in the organization but it is not apparent that these opportunities are equal for both men and women. Also on an individual basis there is a lot of competition, even though competition is healthy at times, in this case it seems to be more hurtful that it is helpful and caused tension between employees. Also in many organizations the same way there are standards and guidelines that are clearly stated but with this promotion not information was provided to the people that were interested like Diane Williams of what the organization was looking for Diane Williamson felt like she should have been the one to be promoted to the vice president position, she is not receiving equal pay for her positions and that top management is not recognizing its employees achievements and not rewarding them for a job well done.
Analysis
Diane has worked there for many years and she had moved up in the company and had helped it grow in many ways. She feels like she had been a great asset to the company and an amazing team player. Though with all of this in her back ground and under her belt she had lacked to show this to top management or even stand out in her group “ I wouldn’t want to take all the glory for something that was the product of team effort”. She feels that she had worked very hard to make it as far as she did and that she had sacrificed a lot for this job “when the