...A Business Proposal to Make Ethical and Diversity Considerations to Improve the Strategic HRM Planning Process. Prepared for Jane Doe HR Director ABC Restaurant & Pub Prepared by XXXXX Personnel Director ABC Restaurant & Pub December 24, 2012 ABC’s Restaurant & Pub Ethical and Diversity Considerations to Improve the Strategic HRM Planning Process. I have gathered information over the last five weeks about department policies and best practices pertaining to ethical and diversity considerations. Based on these findings, the following proposal is presented to improve the strategic planning process. Diversity and ethics are buzzwords and are used frequently around the workplace. There are areas within both where making small changes could result in large benefits for the company’s HR strategic planning process. These considerations are important for the strategic plan because they encourage a positive company culture and decrease legal risks that could otherwise result in the demise of the company. Diversity As a restaurant and bar located in the middle of a military-base town, our personnel records indicate management has been hiring primarily a specific demographic type (women ages 18-30). Management has hired this demographic type over other demographic types more qualified. Even in an effort to appeal to specific customers, this bias can come off as discriminative and reflect negatively on the company. Two areas in need of consideration...
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...Consideration for Ethics and Diversity Proposal There are some ethical and diversity considerations which have emerged in the Human Resource Department (HRM). These are important for the strategic HRM planning process and should be addressed effectively, efficiently and in a timely manner. These considerations have been researched and thoroughly analyzed and are essential to the continued growth of the company. Specific recommendations have been included to handle the considerations. Ethical Consideration Currently faculty in the Practical Nursing Department input their time in an excel spreadsheet and submit to the coordinator of the department. It has come to the attention of human resource department that there have been discrepancies in the reported time, actual instruct time and instruct time scheduled. These inconsistencies in time reporting could be mistakes on the part of the actual faculty members, or oversights in the time sheet approval process by the department coordinator. This issue is considered an ethical issue because it can hinder the company’s financial growth by affecting the budget. The proposal for this ethical consideration is that we integrate a computerized time keeping system. The computerized time keeping system will correlate with the actual time the faculty member is scheduled to instruct with the exception of fifteen minutes before and after. Any overtime should be pre-approved or approved...
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...behalf of their mangers in their absence. • Work/ life has a positive impact on staff retaining through providing Flexible working hours and consultative roistering arrangement to all employees including managers and supervisors. • Work/ life decreases the work stress fall on the employees shoulders which has a direct impact on the firm productivity • Work/ life Balance could be an excellent tool for attracting and retain top- notch employees who in return affect the organization productivity 2. How does diversity in an organization affect the organization’s work /life balance? What ethical considerations exist that may drive the organization to be more work/life balance? Answer: The challenge is to make organizations more accommodating to diverse groups of people by addressing different lifestyles, family needs, and work styles. So diversity in an organization will raise the following issues which are affecting the life /Balance: • Need to attract and maintain a diversified work force that is...
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...the world today are being acknowledged as the key to economic success. Organizations all over the globe are learning the opportunities of opening up to diversity and adding women to their boardrooms. Ignoring talent in half the population is not the best method for an organization to create a successful and effective board. Urban Outfitters Inc. has not always been a top contender in the diverse corporate world. In this report, we will investigate how Urban Outfitters Inc. reluctantly took a step in the direction of updating the faces of their executive boardroom. We will discuss the challenges and changes gender diversity in the corporate work world meets. We will look at meaningful observations of board effectiveness in the boardroom and the workforce. Introduction Boardroom diversity is highly advocated by companies and investors. Boardrooms hold the main responsibility to ensure human talent planning coincides with developing policies and procedure concerning diversity and diversity issues within an organization. Boardrooms need talent management and ultramodern thinking to build company revenue. Organizations use warm and fuzzy words about diversity, yet only give lukewarm responses in practices. Diversity was sighted as a legal issue in the past; now organizations are opening up to accepting that diversity is not a legality to deal with, but instead an innovation that builds stronger and more productive organizations. Stockholders are beginning to shout that...
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...Addressing International Legal and Ethical Issues Addressing International Legal and Ethical Issues CadMex is a global pharmaceutical with over 85 years in the business. They are based in Tampa Florida. They have the ambitions to take their business to a country in South East Asia called Candore. The company the CadMex wants to business is called Gentura. They are well established biotechnology company. This company has over 25 years experienced into their business. This paper will highlight the many situations or challenges an organization faces while conduction business abroad. Other items that will be highlighted in this paper are: the issues involved in resolving legal disputes in international transactions. Also some practical considerations of taking legal action against a foreign business partner based in another country. Last, it will highlight how companies should resolve domestic and international issues differently. There are some issues that arise during resolving legal disputes in international transactions. The first issue to consider is the laws that govern the country. If the country is run by a borderline dictator such as President Arahi Gwendoz that took over Candore in a bloodless coup, the rule might be very difficult to understand. If there are no rules such the Constitution of the United States, there will be a lot of room for a variety of interpretations. Last, “International law has traditionally been defined in very broad terms and not limited simply...
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...There is a negative impact on innovation as breeders are not allowed to use the patented plants, animals or genetic material freely for further breeding. - Patents have been the engine behind tremendous market concentration in the seed sector, destroying competition and forcing small and medium enterprises out of the market. - Patents lead to higher prices for farmers, less choice for consumers and a negative impact on agro-biodiversity. Most of the ethicist and religious community are also against the patent for the modified organism. They argue that no one can have the right to living things which has been inherited from nature. This is the common argument which confronting the advancement of technology on living organism. Proposal and Recommendations The concerns and question which arisen from this dilemma could be summed up in the following statements: - How the researchers/ education institutions/business could be compensated for their works and getting their investment...
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...A report about the key concepts about care underpinning the policy proposals presented in the Coalition Government’s Department of Health Consultation Document A Vision for Adult Social Care: Capable Communities and Active Citizens, (2010) Department of Health website, http://dh.gov.uk/publications Dawn E. Paton Table of Contents Page 1 Introduction 3 1.1 Aims and objectives 3 1.2 Report structure 3 2 Dept of Health paper: A Vision for Adult Social Care 3 2.1 Background 3 3 Consultation document proposals 3 3.1 Table of proposals 4 3.2 Evidence to support the proposals 5 4 Constructions and locations...
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...Managing Ethics in the Workplace Trinidad,Loudine T. BSE-4C Marketing Prof. Rose Marie Ramos Managing Ethics in the Workplace Managing workplace ethics promotes shared values that result in better cohesion of the workforce, and play a crucial role in the success of any organization Workplace ethics are the application of morality, or concepts such as good and bad, right and wrong, justice and virtue to all activities of the business. It closely relates to corporate social responsibility, but is much wider in scope. The scope of business ethics lies in two dimensions: 1. Workplace behavior ethics, or the illegal and questionable practices of individual managers, such as wrongful use of resources, mismanagement of contracts and agreements for personal gain, conflict of interests, and the like. 2. Business ethics issues, such as ethical dilemmas when making decisions, dealing with stakeholders, and the like. The primary requirement for managing ethics in the workplace is an understanding that workplace ethics is a continuous and on-going process ingrained to management practices, and not a deliverable defined project. It influences the way the organization functions, and remains independent of profits or product range. • Ethics Policy Irrespective of the dimension of business ethics, the basic requirement for managing ethics in the workplace is to have a strong ethics policy in place that makes the company’s ethics policy transparent...
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...system to monitor and evaluate teams’ progress for purposes of corrective and preventative action / continual improvement by a predefined date * Define implementation targets and plans: * Timelines * People (roles, responsibilities, reporting structure, human capital, etc) * Communication Purpose Syndic8 Values * Positivity, Innovation, Integrity, Leadership, Good Relationships, Networking * Innovate = fun, excitement, great opportunities Syndic8 Vision To be a leading team delivering quality work for the PDBA program. Syndic8 Mission Through our work ethic and guided by our values we deliver more quality work. Syndic8 * Innovation * Asking the right questions * Reviewing all the ideas and identifying opportunities in them – cross-functional workshop * Meetings to review new ideas * Creating cross teams will equal diversity, differing viewpoints, fresh input to solving problems and coming up with new ideas Team Charter components Objectives *...
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...| The Learning Business Research Proposal | | Research & Decision-Making for Business/Business Research Methods | | The Learning Business Research Proposal | | Research & Decision-Making for Business/Business Research Methods | The Learning Business Research Proposal Research & Decision-Making for Business/Business Research Methods 1. Analyzing the Business Decision or Problem Businesses currently face a change in the consumer landscape as generation Y consumers (persons born between the years 1982 and 1994) have the capacity to dominate the economy. It is important for companies to recognise generation Y’s behaviours, attitudes, characteristics and influences in order to “create and develop new business opportunities to remain competitive and generate profits.” Sullivan, D. P. (2004). However, this is proving difficult for businesses as the incentives behind generation Y consumption practices and preferences remain obscure. The following proposal intends on focusing on this division by examining the consumption behaviour of generation Y individuals. The findings concluded that generation Y consumerism was driven by issues in conjunction with but not limited to social trends, personal preferences and digital media and technology. Key Concepts: Throughout the investigation various research articles presented themes that influenced Generation Y consumer decision-making styles including: • Freedom • Finding yourself • Blend in/stand...
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...Miami Schools Negotiation University of Phoenix Organizational Negotiations MGT/445 April 4, 2011 Miami Schools Negotiation Miami School District has decided to change the school boundary parameters due to the high applications of enrollment. This would be good for the school to rezone the boundaries but it is not favorable to the stakeholders in some circumstances. The stakeholders are the parents of the children in this case. The big issue for the current students is the disruption of the current curriculum and a possible change of school systems entirely. Numerous opposition plans influence the parent’s behavior to stop the rezoning, which are education quality, traveling time of the students to and from school, crossing economic and cultural boundaries, impact on property valuations in the communities, and social impacts on children. This document is intended to create a simpler understanding of the negotiation strategy used by the school management to support the rezoning boundaries by considering the concerns of the stakeholders. This paper will assist to understand the ethical and cultural differences that can impact the decision and negotiation process. According to the scenario provided, the parents have issues with rezoning the boundaries of the school system. The main opposition to rezoning is the education quality that is served by the school. Due to the rezoning of school boundaries the parent’s are concerned that their children will not be...
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...Business Ethics Individual and Organizational Ethics Learning Goals After studying this chapter, you should be able to: 1 Describe the stages of moral and ethical development. 2 Explain and apply the core concepts used by individuals and organizations to make ethical decisions. 3 Describe some ethics-based initiatives for fostering diversity in organizations. 4 Explain the nature of stakeholder responsibility and its ethical basis. Individual Differences and Ethics Ethics Competency Anne Mulcahy’s Ethical Leadership Decision Making and Ethics Change Competency James McNerney, CEO of Boeing Diversity and Ethics Diversity Competency Verizon’s Workplace Diversity Stakeholder Responsibility and Ethics Ethics Competency Johnson & Johnson’s Stakeholder Ethics and Principles Experiential Exercise and Case Experiential Exercise: Ethics Competency What Is Your Decision? Case: Diversity Competency Consensual Relationship Agreements Learning from Experience Anne Mulcahy, Chairman and CEO of Xerox, Commits to Business Ethics Anne M. Mulcahy is the chairman and CEO of the Xerox Corporation, headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut. Xerox is best known for its copiers, but it also makes printers, scanners, and fax machines. The company sells document software and copier supplies and also provides consulting and document outsourcing. In this feature and throughout the chapter, we present a number of aspects of Anne Mulcahy’s personal commitment to ethics and Xerox’s...
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...unit 510 [Document Subtitle] Yvonne Lake Lead and Manage a Team within a Health and Social Care or Children and Young People’s Setting 1.1 Explain the features of effective team performance Social Care requires carefully appointed staff. A professional group of people that work together are called a team. Main aim to offer care focused service for the individual and families. The manager/team leader implements the role by developing ways to share the responsibility. Leadership roles share the accountability with all the team. Communication is the key to effective teamwork. Forward Planning meetings result in the successful pro-active approach. Implement and develop the roles. Discussion team members delegate action proposals for each team member to deliver. Meetings are important for deciding, and...
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...Fairness as Appropriateness: Negotiating Epistemological Differences in Peer Review Author(s): Grégoire Mallard, Michèle Lamont and Joshua Guetzkow Source: Science, Technology, & Human Values, Vol. 34, No. 5 (September 2009), pp. 573-606 Published by: Sage Publications, Inc. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27786178 . Accessed: 02/10/2013 11:47 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. . Sage Publications, Inc. is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Science, Technology, &Human Values. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 199.73.44.216 on Wed, 2 Oct 2013 11:47:01 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Science, Technology, & Human Values Fairness as Volume 34 Number 5 September 2009 573-606 C) 200$; Sage Plications 10.1177/0162243908329381 l*ftp:#$&.sagepub.com hosted at http://online.sagepub.com Appropriateness Negotiating Epistemological Differences in Peer Review Gregoire Mallard Northwestern University Michele Harvard Lamont University...
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...the International Business Ethics Gabriela Dubcová* ABSTRACT The ethics triangle: national law, culture and political economic system. Key factors of current ethics issues in an international environment. The most visible changes in environment dimensions. Principles of international business ethics. Current ethics challenges in international environment. Common issues of the international business ethics. Comparison of ethical standards in different cultures. Accelerating development of globalization and assimilation between Europe and the USA. Differences between Europe, the United States and Asia in the business ethics perspective. Development processes of global business ethics. Levels of global business ethic level. Principle of normative guidelines for business conduct of multinational corporations. Current functioning of institution engaged in the international business ethics. Key words: The ethics triangle; Current ethics issues; International business ethics; Ethical standards; Global business ethics; Institution engaged in the International Business Ethics. JEL classification: K2, M1 Introduction The present economic situation in the globalized world generates very efficient processes in international companies with large profits for managers but with a relevant risk in economic and noneconomic ambit to eliminate any negative impacts of the crisis from one country to another. In this case, it is necessary to enact and apply ethics principles in international...
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