Work and Diversity Assignment PDF

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Running head: WORK AND DIVERSITY

WORK AND DIVERSITY
Activity 1B
Estimated Time 15-20 Minutes
Objective To provide you with an opportunity to qualify and quantify the sources of
diversity in the industry sector, community and workplace.
Briefly describe the main opportunities for sourcing diversity for your industry
sector. Does this exist in your community or would you need to look at other
sources for suitable skills and attributes?
AX media utilises tools such as Experience Kit to source diverse staffs from
different backgrounds who are more than 45 years of age and this opportunity is
utilised for recruiting such skilled and experienced staffs. Further AX media even
uses opportunities for diverse sourcing like Corporate Champions programme to
hire employees with diverse background where AX media focuses on applying
best of HR practices to recruit competent staffs and offer them monetary support
within this program (Kundu and Mor 2017). Moreover AX Media even utilises
program like Restart programs to source competent people from different
background where subsidised pays are provided to competent resources of over
45 years of age who were on sabbatical.
Another program focused on aboriginal people called Indigenous Cadetship
support is also utilised by AX media as method to source people from diverse
background who belong to different groups like foreign students, migrants etc. All
these sourcing possibilities used by AX media are present in community.
Activity 2A
Estimated Time 45 Minutes
Objective To provide you with an opportunity to develop and review workplace policies,
procedures and planning in accordance with the scope of diversity.
1. Develop a workplace policy containing a range of procedures in accordance
with the scope of diversity for your organisation.
The workplace policy of AX media can be developed to focus on wide range of
procedures to adhere to possibilities of sourcing diverse resources into the firm
through integration of policies focused on Diversity which can offer people from
different background access of equality at work and opportunities, give then fair
opportunities and treatment at workplace as well as provide them with respect
and dignity at work by considering their talent and not background.
2. Review the workplace policy that you have just developed and make any
changes considered necessary.
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The review of the workplace policy that has been created for AX media after
evaluation presented that their diversity policies needed to be modified further to
make the policy more aligned and detailed as well as accurate to reflect clarity of
guidelines (Pegg and Caddell2016). The change that has been considered as
essential for workplace policies of AX media includes changing policies meant for
equipment and their requisites guidelines, change pertaining to KPI and review
procedure to mark performance and appraisal assessment rules and changes
reflecting guidelines for addressing workplace grievances and conflicts.
Activity 2B
Estimated Time 15 Minutes
Objective To provide you with an opportunity to establish where diversity integration
meets the needs of the enterprise and diverse persons.
1. How can you establish the diversity integration within the needs of business
and with the diversity of your workforce?
The diversity programs in accordance to business needs and diversity inclusion at
workplace of AX media can be established with keen consideration on primary
areas of business and making them aligned to requirement of tasks, competency
and expectation of staffs (Trittinand Schoeneborn 2017). Further AX media needs
to insure that adequate training programs and resources are made available to
diverse workforce so that they can accommodate to establish diversity integration
within specified funding so as to fulfil business needs.
2. What does diversity management include?
Diversity integration and its management at workplace consist of various aspects
that ranges from assessing the needs of business as well as employees,
developing adequate strategies and implementing them with proper assessment
and updating on timely manner about progress of diversity work plans and
management schedules so that requisites of business projects as well as needs of
each employee is considered during the diversity management initiatives. Also
during the need evaluation process it is needed that availability of workforce,
resource as well as manner the work would be executed along with time plan are
detailed properly for clarity and effective diversity management. These should
even include details of approaches that would be undertaken to integrate
diversity of workforce within firms as well as should include approach to monitor
and control the diversity management procedures and practices at workplace.
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