HRM Incident 2: So‚ What’s Affirmative Action? Introduction: Affirmative action program is an action of how Supreme Company would select employment based on race‚ gender‚ or ethnicity by granting preferences to minorities especially women. To ensure that all groups/races are adequately represented within the existing employment. To ensure that all works had nearly equal representation as to do away injustice. It must be well and properly comprehended before putting it into application. Adequate
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The Houston Disabled American Veterans service organization is a dedicated force in conjunction with other service organizations‚ Department of Veterans Affairs‚ Department of Housing and Urban Development‚ and City of Houston‚ to eliminate homelessness among military veterans that have served this country. The plight of the homeless veteran has continued to increase in the Houston/Harris County to a staggering 2‚800 veterans walking the streets with no way to find the compassionate caring help necessary
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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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Current affirmative action programs rest on fundamentally incompatible principles that frustrate‚ rather than facilitate‚ the attainment of true educational diversity. The core problem is that universities have largely disregarded the only permissible goal of affirmative action programs—educational diversity —in favor of remedying past discrimination. In doing so‚ race and other immutable characteristics have become proxies for a diverse student body at the expense of the many factors that more
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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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Arguably‚ military veterans are among the strongest and most brave people in society. They selflessly put their lives on the line so that others may be free. For many veterans‚ the military is simply their way of life‚ it’s the only life they really know and they can’t imagine not being able to live it. When a veteran is forced to leave the military due to injury sustained while performing their duties‚ it can be devastating. Not only are they dealing with a potentially debilitating injury‚ but
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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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women have volunteered to serve in our Nation’s military since the American Revolutionary War and in each American war thereafter‚ female Veterans have consistently dealt with the minimization of their service and status when compared to men (Disabled American Veterans [DAV]‚ 2014). Unfortunately‚ some of those same barriers still exist today‚ as female Veterans are frequently under-recognized for their roles and participation in combat‚ even by females themselves. Females serve in the military in
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Affirmative Action in the Workplace When you think of affirmative action in the workplace do you think of equal rights for all‚ or just equal rights for minorities. Affirmative action is the extent to which employers make an effort through their personal practices to attract retain‚ and upgrade members of the protected classes of the 1964 Civil Rights Act‚ (Bernardin & Russell 2013). In easier terms affirmative action is known to be the equal opportunity measures that Federal contractors and subcontractors
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Assignment 01 ENN103F Question 1 Yes I would say it is morally defensible. Although affirmative action programs can be attacked on strictly legal grounds‚ they are far more defensible on moral and practical grounds‚ and if they are carefully designed‚ even their legality can be defended. The fact that current defenders of legal color-blindness so often have a history of condoning preference as long as it benefited white men shows that they argue in bad faith. The presence of such a powerful and
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