Question

EEO, affirmative action, and diversity: Compare and contrast equal employment opportunity, affirmative action, and diversity. Define each and provide examples of how each is applied in the workplace. Identify the governance mechanism that enforces each.

Learning objectives:

3-4 Discuss the differences among equal employment opportunity, affirmative action, and diversity.

3-7 Discuss trends in HRM including the role of technology in diversity management and sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination.

Answer 1

Answer to 3-4 :

The differences among equal employment opportunity, affirmative action, and diversity are that the equal employment opportunity is to provide the opportunity for employment to all without discriminating among the applicants on various grounds such as age religion, sex, national origin; color etc. equal employment opportunity drives its authority from the laws.

Affirmative actions are actions are moral or proactive actions which are intended to fairly represent the minorities in employment, recruiting more underrepresented to marginalized community, encouraging women for employment etc. these actions ensure that company follow ethics and morality in their recruitment process.

While diversity is to ensure that company recruits people from all backgrounds and once the diverse people are there in company than managing the diversity inside the company so that it results in benefit to the company.Diversity results respect for others, create future leaders, leads to innovative ideas and solutions etc.