CHAPTER 3 The Legal Environment: Equal Employment Opportunity and Safety Chapter Summary The legal environment is one of the critical environmental factors that affects the management of people. This chapter first describes the U.S. legal system‚ including the legislative bodies‚ regulatory agencies‚ and judicial bodies whose decisions affect the legality of HRM practices. Major laws and executive orders‚ particularly those pertaining to elements of discrimination‚ are then reviewed. Four theories
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Affirmative action The term affirmative action was first used by President John F. Kennedy. During the 1960’s civil rights movement‚ President John F. Kennedy signed executive order 10925. This executive order was meant to ensure that federal contractors did not discriminate in their hiring practices but “"take affirmative action to ensure" equal opportunity. The civil rights era also worked to repel against the sexism against women‚ when in 1967 President Lyndon Johnson amended the order to include
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Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives of BPCL BPCL‚ a well-known petroleum brand called Bharat Petroleum Company Limited is committed to the welfare and development of the society and the local community. It works in various areas to help develop the community and society. BPCL’s commitment towards society and local community is very high‚ according to the CMD‚ ‘We are committed to the societies where we operate and understand that business success is not possible when the needs of the society
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P4- There is a variety of national initiatives which promote anti-discriminatory practices: Some of these practices are provisions relating to‚ European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 1950‚ Sex Discrimination Act 1975‚ Mental Health Act 1983‚ Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986‚ The Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989‚ The Children Act 1989‚ Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000‚ Disability Discrimination Act 2005‚ it is important in every work place and setting
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paper is to analyze the similarities and the differences between two popular approaches in today’s human resource management: equal opportunities approach and managing diversity approach. While the managing diversity approach focuses more on business efficiency‚ the equal opportunities approach concentrates on equal treatment of employees in a bureaucratic sense. The paper begins with definitions of both approaches; continues with explaining differences and similarities of both approaches comparatively
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SECTION A: Short questions 1. Is affirmative action morally defensible? Explain Yes it is morally defensible in that: The tough realities faced in the past created divisions of the past regime between black and white communities and declaration of this policy assisted in ensuring that closing that gap and normalise the conditions at the workplace. In the past South Africa has had many inequalities and imbalances‚ and blacks were treated in a unfair manner and stigmatized. In 1994 Democracy
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Affirmative Action Right? Affirmative action has been around for decades. Some believe it isn’t fair but others do. Those who believe and agree with affirmative action tend to say‚ “The principle of affirmative action is to promote societal equality through the preferential treatment of socioeconomically disadvantaged people” (Bidmead‚ Andrew pg 3). Others that disagree with it and find it unfair simply see it as another form of discrimination‚ giving one group extra advantages based upon nothing
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Briefly outline what Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is and how the initiatives on reporting CSR have developed over the past few decades. Explain what the Global Reporting Initiative is. Social responsibility has been a term used in business since the 1700’s with to focus then being child labour and increasing working conditions. It was only during the 1970’s when social responsibility gathered pace and a definition was given “The social responsibility of business encompasses the economic
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2 EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY AND HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT In this chapter you will learn how managers must be constantly aware of the laws and regulations governing the employment relationship. This is true for both federal and state regulations. Many of these laws concern the fair and equal employment of protected classes of workers‚ although equal employment opportunity (EEO) laws pertain to all members of the labor force. You will understand from this chapter that equal employment
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Fair Innings and Equal Opportunity The justification behind fair innings and equal opportunity as an age-based rationing tool‚ contains the idea that it would be best to allow people an equal opportunity to live for a long time‚ by shifting resources to the young so that they may also ideally reach the arbitrary ‘old age’ figure‚ thereby maximising the life-years saved. Kilner argues that such justification is dubious as it “places value on the potential life-years saved rather than the actual lives
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