To: Board of Directors From: Human Resources Date: February 20‚ 2011 Subject: Implementing Affirmative Action Policies So it has been brought to my attention to recommend to your company’s Board of directors that we should implement a plan of Affirmative Action Policies and how they are incompliance with the EEO law. What is Affirmative Action‚ it is a policy that goes beyond equal employment opportunity by requiring organizations to comply with the law and correct past discriminatory practices
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Affirmative action can be a good thing and also a bad thing in the same sense. Affirmative active is used as a law to make companies make an effort to prevent discrimination in the workplace and also make it an equal opportunity place of work. Is this the right way to go about this? This is the question that many companies and job hunters ask themselves every day when they are hiring or searching for a job. As a company you must be fair but there are many reasons why the law is not fair in its own
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Affirmative Action Affirmative action is a social policy created to promote the welfare of minorities by supporting the idea that individuals are all created equal and should not be judged by race or gender. Therefore‚ in situations like job and university applications‚ we should consider minorities to be as feasible a choice for hire as a white male candidate‚ taking into consideration their background. In short‚ it tries to give minorities that have been at a disadvantage their whole life‚ an
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“Affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs‚ employment‚ promotions and scholarships‚ and college admittance.” This quote by David Duke (politician) sums up the main argument against affirmative action. Affirmative action gives special consideration to minorities and women when being selected for a college or job. This makes it more likely for these groups of people to be considered than for white males. There are three primary arguments
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Affirmative action is the prohibition of discrimination of minority groups. In hope of making America the land of equal opportunity‚ President John F. Kennedy first introduced the concept of affirmative action in 1961. Affirmative action strictly prohibits discrimination of employees based on “race‚ color‚ religion‚ sex‚ or national origin” (Wilcher). Several presidents endorsed the concept after President Kennedy; thus‚ the policy was heavily enforced. To extend the policy to private-owned businesses
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Affirmative Action: The Bane of Progress Discrimination is something any rational member of society would like to dispel. Discrimination is something that has stunted the growth of the great country of America for a number of years. A policy called affirmative action was introduced to prioritize the inclusion of minorities in a number of aspects. Affirmative action in university admissions started in the late 1960s as an effort to jump-start racial integration. Affirmative action in college
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The case 8.7 discusses whether the affirmative action program was enforced and whether it caused harm towards white employees. The court had to determine if the Board of Education of the Township of Piscataway violated the Title VII regulation when it made race a factor in choosing which employee they should terminate. Sharon Taxman‚ who is white and Debra Williams‚ who is black were two equally qualified employees who both begun working with the Board on the same day for nine years. In 1975‚ the
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The affirmative action program is important because it gives job opportunities for many people regardless of their race‚ color‚ religion‚ gender‚ and national origin. The work force should be well represented by the different ethnic backgrounds of our society. Some people look at affirmative action as reverse discrimination‚ but this program doesn’t guarantee employment based on race‚ ethnicity‚ or gender. The affirmative action program gives equal consideration to individuals from a different
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Affirmative action is still necessary because it was affective for helping minorities‚ it has the potential to start ending poverty‚ and bring the lower class to the middle class. When John F. Kennedy signed the Executive Order 10925‚ it begin a change for diversity in employment and education. This order was very effective to help races such African-Americans and Latinos find jobs and go to college who have been discriminated in the past. This action was very necessary at the time‚ but quickly leveled
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Although affirmative action was originally implemented to assist minorities however‚ it can be argued that in turn affirmative action hurts minorities and in a way puts them at an educational disadvantage. The Most prominent advantage for minorities is that they can attend more elite schools than majorities. In recent years many scholars have noticed several instances where an under qualified student has been admitted to a school and not been successful because of their lack of preparation. For
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