Running head: IMPACT OF DIVERSITY IN THE WORKPLACE McCann School of Business and Technology Janet Miller BU115 Customer Service Instructor’s Name: Mr. Andrew Roth Assignment Issue Date: April 28‚ 2010 Assignment Due Date: May 10‚ 2010 Outline Introduction to Diversity …………………………………………………………………………3 Impact of Diversity in the Workplace……………………….……………………………………4 Why is diversity beneficial to a business? ………………………………………………………..5 What are the legal risks? .......................
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When we think of discrimination in the workplace‚ we think about things like blacks can’t use the water fountain‚ or you can’t get this job because you are a woman because these are events that have happened offend in the history of the United States. These types of discrimination are blatant and stick out to use all as being not only wrong but also unexcitable in our world today. Institutional discrimination is different than blatant discrimination because they are rules that are set out by the
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Long-term financing requires a meticulous understanding of the various features of debt and equity and their impact an organization. While evaluating debt and equity‚ an investment banker also has to consider the unique characteristics of the organization’s dealings while ensuring that the organization’s requirements are met. Debt CapitalDebt capital includes all long-term borrowing incurred by the firm. The cost of debt was found to be less than the cost of other forms of financing. The relative
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1 EXPECTANCY THEORY OF MOTIVATION AT USE IN THE WORKPLACE Leadership Concepts and Applications LET1 Student#: March 30‚ 2012 2 What is Motivation? Motivation is a word popularly used to explain why people behave as they do. Some psychologists and scientists view motivation as the factor that determines behavior‚ as expressed in the phrase “all behavior is motivated” (World Book‚ 1992). Some scientists view motivation as the factor that energizes behavior. According to this
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Dealing with Unconscious Bias in the Workplace Unconscious bias is actually a rather scary concept‚ but it is nonetheless something that nearly everybody is subject to. In simple terms‚ unconscious bias refers to the biases that we have towards others that are not in our conscious control. When we meet people‚ we make instant assessments of them‚ normally based on our own experiences‚ and cultural environment and background. Most of us like to believe that we’re open-minded and objective‚ however
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trades or creditors are another option of short term finance. A company can borrow the goods from supplier and pay them later in given period of time. Also we can categorise the source of finance in following ways: a) Equity b) Debt c) Hybrid theory Equity: Equity is the main source of finance that belongs to the owners or stockholders. It is ownership interest of shareholders in company.
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1 The statement by Henry Kravis that private equity was in its “golden era” might sound like hubris to the unacquainted observer but may actually not be far off from the reality given the growth of private equity funds under management since the advent of large-scale leveraged buy-outs (LBOs) in the 1980s. Henry Kravis as a principal partner in Kohlberg‚ Kravis & Roberts (KKR) pioneered LBOs in the late 1970s and KKR has been a major private equity firm since having reportedly invested in over 160
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EMPLOYMENT EQUITY Contents PAGE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2 INTRODUCTION 2 WHAT IS EMPLOYMENT EQUITY 3 HOW DOES IT WORK 3 - 4 WHAT IS AFFIRMATIVE ACTION 5 IMPLEMENATION OF AFFIRMITIVE & EMPLOYMENT EQUITY 6 - 7 OBSTACLES & CHALLENGES 7 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 8 CONCLUSION 8 BIBLIOGRAPHY 9 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This assignment deals with the Employment Equity Act of 19 October 1998. It covers the workings of the act in terms of equity
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* Groups 6: The SMARTER approach to workplace learning SOCIAL LEARNING HANDBOOK: CONTENTS PAGE Workplace Learning Stages 4 & 5 At the beginning of this Handbook we identified 3 stages of workplace learning. We have now seen how social media is being used for learning – both for formal training but also‚ and more significantly for underpinning informal‚ workflow learning. This had led to two further stages of workplace learning emerging (see Fig 11). But there is a clear difference between
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Customer equity is a result of customer relationship management. Customer equity is the total of discounted lifetime values of all of the firms customers. In layman terms‚ the more loyal a customer‚ the more is the customer equity. Firms like McDonalds‚ Apple and Facebook have very high customer equity and that is why they have an amazing and sustainable competitive advantage. Customer Equity is made up of three components. Value Equity‚ Brand Equity and Relationship Equity. Value Equity
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