Four Dimensions of Conflict and a Flood Several months into the strike‚ record setting rainfall caused the San Francisco river to overflow its banks sending an unexpected and swift torrent of water through the town of Clifton‚ AZ on October 1‚ 1983. This catastrophic event‚ while completely unrelated to the details of the labor contract negotiations and ongoing strike‚ provides an excellent example of how history and culture work together to influence the willingness of the conflicted parties to
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Managing Diversity* July 2009 Creating competitive advantage through cultural dexterity Highlights • Cultural dexterity is a business skill that enables effective collaboration and communication among people across multiple dimensions of diversity. • Collaboration within a group of diverse people‚ who approach problems from different perspectives‚ improves corporate performance. • The environment a company creates can enable—or impede— the success of its employees. • Leaders are personally accountable
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UNDERSTANDING DIVERSITY Defining DIVERSITY Definitions of diversity range from distributive concerns based on the traditional categories of race‚ ethnicity and gender to the inclusion of a vast array of differences in age‚ sexual orientation‚ disability‚ employment status‚ tenure‚ function‚ educational background‚ lifestyle‚ religion‚ values and beliefs in addition to race‚ ethnicity and gender. In the recent CIPD report‚ Diversity: Stacking up the evidence (Anderson and Metcalf 2003)
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Managing Diversity | Sexual Orientation in the Workplace | | I am looking at what managing diversity is about‚ why and when it emerged and what problems and issues it is supposed to address. I will be investigating into sexual orientation in the workplace and will be looking through history at when employment became equal and what the perceptions are like at current. | Contents | Page | Diversity | 3 | Managing diversity and the concept | 3 | Trade unions and diversity‚ and the
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THE ArceDairy ice cream line consists of their premium or supreme‚ classic‚ regular‚ sugar-free‚ sherbet‚ and “sorbete de caro” flavors. The latter‚ made from fresh coconut milk‚ is reminiscent of the “dirty” ice cream sold in pushcarts by itinerant vendors. The company also makes “lower-end” popsicles they sell in the provinces under the Medinilla label as well as ice-cream bars featuring various flavors. Dennis S. Arce‚ vice president for finance of ArceFoods Corp.‚ the company that produces
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towards acceptable and rewarding behavior. The organizational culture exists at two distinct levels‚ visible and hidden. The visible aspect of the organization is reflected in artifacts‚ symbols and visible behavior of employees. The hidden aspect is related to underlying values and assumptions that employees make regarding the acceptable and unacceptable behaviors. Artifacts: These are visible components of culture‚ they are easy to formulate‚ have some physical shape‚ yet its perception varies
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Was the use of Hidden Cameras by the News Media Ethically Justified in the Fahey and Todd Cases? Explore Why or Why Not‚ Referring to Recent Cases [Jane Shannahan] Introduction Right to privacy became an issue in the US as far back as 1890 in words not unfamiliar to 21st century ears: “The press is overstepping in every direction the obvious bounds of propriety and of decency. Gossip is no longer the resource of the idle and of the vicious‚ but has become a trade‚ which is pursued with industry
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FUN TRAVEL DEALS (FTD) Bharathan Swamynathan Radhika Pati Rahul Katta Rakesh Chinnakkan Waaris Savage 1 introduction FTD is a tourism based enterprise in India established in 2007. Fun Travel Deals introduced an innovative app designed for tourism industry called “FTD” in 2012. Fun Travel Deals feature’s overview‚ fast fact‚ history‚ culture‚ maps‚ travel within the tourist spot 2 About the App FTD covers more than 300 tourist destinations and over 75 activities
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Assignment for mod I DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT A STUDY Group II 161 – Rishita Digar 233 - Rahul Raju 241 - Ashish Jain 232- Pushpender Kapil 240- Chandan Kumar Singh 237 - Shiv Shankar INTRODUCTION The concept of diversity includes acceptance and respect. It means understanding that each individual is unique‚ and recognizing our individual differences. These can be along the dimensions of race‚ ethnicity‚ gender‚ sexual orientation‚ socio-economic status‚ age‚ physical abilities‚ religious beliefs
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Workforce Diversity and the impact SHRM has towards Competitive Advantage Workforce Diversity covers a wide variety of differences‚ which include race‚ gender‚ age‚ culture‚ nationality‚ religion‚ sexuality‚ interests‚ needs and desires (Hartel & Fujimoto‚ 2000). In order to explain workforce diversity in depth‚ this essay will utilise Race/Ethnicity as the key diversity characteristic‚ discussing the various theories and practices used in Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) to develop
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