Affirmative Action
Affirmative Action
Human Resources Management
Shelley Landry
Tenika S. Brown
January 25, 2009
If you are a Board of Director, in Human Resources, or the manager of a company of any size, it is important, even crucial that you have a planned affirmative action program. Your affirmative action program plan does not need to have quotas, at least officially, and many experts in Human Resources strongly recommend against quotas, but nonetheless it has to be seen that your business is taking concrete steps to implement a program to advance many minorities and women if they are underrepresented in a field. Although, many bosses and Supervisors complain about affirmative action programs, they do, in fact, work quite well with a modern and productive workplace environment, and may actually help you insure that you have the best employees doing the best work possible. This may sound counterintuitive, but you should take the time to contact a professional consultant who has had experience in helping a business to implement its affirmative action program, and they will give you professional advice.
A good affirmative action program plan will help your business in several ways. Not only does it help you to protect the company against possible discrimination suits, but it also helps you to find and employ the best people there are out there by working to counteract invisible biases that exist in almost every other business. Although, women are as smart as men are, and blacks are as smart as whites are for example yet often one group is consistently under-employed or under-paid when the other group has a position of power. Even though you may not be part of it yourself, nonetheless there is institutional bias that runs throughout our biases society which can best be corrected by an affirmative action program planning, and is very hard to address otherwise. Without the use of an affirmative action program planning to effectively re evaluate your...
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