ASSIGNMENT-20 marks 1.Name any two companies which are promoting gender diversit
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ASSIGNMENT-20 marks
1.Name any two companies which are promoting gender diversity and discuss the measures they have taken for it.-5marks
Read chapter 3 of your text book and answer .
2. What are the two goals of affirmative or positive action policies and what is the rationale behind the policies? -5marks
Read chapter 1 of your text book and answer
3. According to the Chinese tradition, what makes a successful manager? Can leaders learn about managing diversity from the Chinese teaching? Why or why not?
What are some of the challenges of managing diversity in a global context? Explain how one of these challenges could be overcome. -5marks
4. What are the main arguments for and against the “equal opportunities” school of thought?- 5 marks
Explanation / Answer
GE funds scholarships for more than 10 years to support female engineering students through their partners and then help bring these students into the corporate life in a STEM work profile.
GE also organises school camps to raise the awareness and interest of the girl students in the field of Science and technology starting from their school years.
Bank of America partners with universities like Cornell to develop women entrepreneurs. It also provides support in providing affordable loans to these women entrepreneurs for their new ventures.
2. The two goals of affirmative or positive action policies are:
3. According to Chinese tradition, a successful manager is able to achieve the correct work life balance with equal focus given to professional and personal relationship in official work. The manager can only be successful with a mutually beneficial approach with its employees. The manager should interact with its employees; give importance to staff ideas along with maintaining a good hold on professional commitment to stakeholders thereby driving the KRAs through regular team follow-up.
Leaders can learn from about managing diversity from the Chinese teaching where they believe to tackle any complex situation requires diverse ideas and solutions. It is one of the reasons of increment in women leaders at high levels in China as the companies believe that the challenges can be tackled better with a group of diverse view point people.
Some of the challenges of managing diversity in a global context are to forma inclusive culture where all respect the culture of each other but still maintain the main company culture to be socially responsible. The entire team should be able to adapt to any changes accepting diversity in a global environment alongside working towards achieving common company goals which were set. These challenges can be overcome by ensuring the diverse teams are formed and they are made to interact through several project assignments so that they get familiarized to each others‘working style instead of focusing on the difference in their culture. A smooth transition approach should be followed so the diverse groups can perform better with each other in a team instead of making any sudden change.
4. Main aruguments for "equal opportunites"school of thought are: -
Giving favourable opportunities to anyone for any reason negates the philosophy of equal opportunities and gives them an added advantage due to lowering of limits. These further results in lower standards of education of work due to preferential treatment given to people not qualified of the work just in the name of equal opportunity.