Managing Equality And Diversity Assignment
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Birmingham Business School
Student ID Number: 1506893
Programme Of Study: MSc Human Resource Management
Module: Managing Equality and Diversity 07 25362
Assignment Title: Managing Equality and Diversity
Date and Time of Submission: 21/01/2015 12pm
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Human resource management-managing equality and diversity
Question one
As a global financial services organization, Parker-Jones has made tremendous steps in managing equality and diversity in the organization. This is because the issue has not been a priority for many organizations. Parker-Jones wants to retain and attract the best talents. By doing this, it will be able to maintain its brand reputation and even secure a better competitive edge in the industry. There are some instances in the Parker-Jones case that if properly used, they have a great contribution to achieving equality and diversity in an organization. As reflected in the case, diversity and equality cuts across many aspects of human resource management. Some of the issues that have been captured include managing work-life balance, gender diversity, and ethnic diversity in the workplace among other issues.
The organization has made a tremendous step by initiating the employee resource group, which facilitates the discussion of workplace issues by diverse employees and assists in the promotion and recruitment networks and mentoring programs (Bond, 2007, p. 17). In an effort to make sure that there is an inclusive
Birmingham Business School
Student ID Number: 1506893
Programme Of Study: MSc Human Resource Management
Module: Managing Equality and Diversity 07 25362
Assignment Title: Managing Equality and Diversity
Date and Time of Submission: 21/01/2015 12pm
Please ensure that you complete and attach this Submission Form to the front of all work that is submitted online.
Before submission, please ensure that your name does not appear anywhere on your work, only your Student ID number.
By submitting your work online you are confirming that your work is your own and that you understand and have read the University’s rules regarding plagiarism and the consequences that will arise should you submit plagiarised work.
Human resource management-managing equality and diversity
Question one
As a global financial services organization, Parker-Jones has made tremendous steps in managing equality and diversity in the organization. This is because the issue has not been a priority for many organizations. Parker-Jones wants to retain and attract the best talents. By doing this, it will be able to maintain its brand reputation and even secure a better competitive edge in the industry. There are some instances in the Parker-Jones case that if properly used, they have a great contribution to achieving equality and diversity in an organization. As reflected in the case, diversity and equality cuts across many aspects of human resource management. Some of the issues that have been captured include managing work-life balance, gender diversity, and ethnic diversity in the workplace among other issues.
The organization has made a tremendous step by initiating the employee resource group, which facilitates the discussion of workplace issues by diverse employees and assists in the promotion and recruitment networks and mentoring programs (Bond, 2007, p. 17). In an effort to make sure that there is an inclusive
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