What is the business case that is driving LeasePlan’s interest in managing diversity? Discuss.
Based on the fact that in LeasePlan there is more women than man employees (450 employes), but for the top executives is dominating by man. There is a basic diversity in LeasePlan which is gender, that’s why LeasePlan began an effort to transform its corporate culture changing the old system and promote more women. Executives hired a consultant to offer women career counseling, revised the company’s pay plan to stress performance over longevity, and displaced some longtime managers.
Compare and contrast the extent to which LeasePlan is using principles from affirmative action and managing diversity. Explain your rationale.
Affirmative action is a good way to avoid discrimination in the workplace, however this method really hard to brought the maximal performance of the company like LeasePlan that dominated by women employee. The affirmative action mostly suitable to employees that don’t want to get out of the comfort zone.
Managing diversity in other hand give the solution to make the employees especially for women to give their maximum potential. To avoid the unstable structure that will created if the attention mostly to the managing women potential the LeasePlan does not manage it directly but they hired Pathbuilders, Inc., an Atlanta human-resources consultancy that focuses on women, to craft a program that includes a skills assessment, career guidance, and tips on communicating and building a “brand.” The program, which taps about 30 women each year, also features networking events and a panel discussion with female executives from other firms.
To what extent are LeasePlan’s efforts consistent with recommendations derived from Alice Eagly and Linda Carli? Discuss.
Based on the case LeasePlan success to do what the recommendations that Alice and Linda derived.