Wesfarmers Diversity Management Presentation - MBA502

This presentation, prepared for MBA502, examines Wesfarmers' approach to diversity management, focusing on cultural intelligence and indigenous engagement. The presentation begins with a personal introduction and an overview of Wesfarmers, highlighting its business operations. It then details Wesfarmers' diversity-related initiatives, particularly its Indigenous engagement programs, and the sources of information used. The core of the presentation offers a critical analysis of these initiatives, evaluating their effectiveness in creating a strong cultural diversity framework. Finally, it provides recommendations for further improvements, such as implementing quotas and providing support to indigenous communities. References from academic journals and Wesfarmers' official website are included to support the analysis.

EMOTIONAL AND
CULTURAL
INTELLIGENCE

Introduction: Personal
introduction
■ I am currently a student of cultural diversity, emotional intelligence
and cultural intelligence
■ The subjects is much important for me to understand as part of my
entire learning process in the higher education area
■ The various diversity factor would be considered in the light of the
practices that are implemented within the organization to improve the
prospects of cultural diversity management

Overview of the organization
■ the organization that is chosen is Wesfarmers
■ The organization was formed in 1914 as a farmer’s cooperative in Australia
■ Some of the most important businesses among these are retail business with Kmart and Target
■ the farm venture with the Dalgety Farmers
■ the Australian Railroad group, the chemicals, fertilizers and energy divisions and industrial
safety equipment
■ the company also own a significant amount of shares in the large supermarket chain Coles
■ The reason for the selection of the organization was that owing to its large operational scope
Wesfarmers is currently focused towards improving the prospects of its diversity management

Diversity-related initiatives
■ Indigenous engagement is one of the most
important visions of Wesfarmers currently
■ The focus is on the better engagement of the
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the
various organizational levels
■ The RAP is focused towards greater indigenous
community engagement
■ Strategies are made to recruit more people from
these communities
■ The indigenous programs are effective in
reaching the communities in such ways that this
causes significant positive changes in their lives

Sources
■ The information that has been gathered from the websites of the
organization and the various news articles that have considered the
diversity oriented work of the organization
■ information selected on the basis of being most accurate, authentic
and relevant

Critique of diversity
initiatives■ The diversity initiatives have been important towards finding a strong
connection between the indigenous communities and the organizational
functions
■ The initiatives have been successful in creating a string cultural diversity
management framework in regards to the other organizations
■ It can be said that the diversity initiatives can help to create better bonding
between the diverse workforces of the country

Recommendations
■ Some of the important needs are the creation of special quotas for the
people of the indigenous groups
■ Another important initiative that can be made is providing essential
support to the communities of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islanders
■ special school scholarships can be provided to the children of the
workers from these communities

Additional sources
■ The inclusion of Aboriginal and other communities that are indigenous
to the country is much necessary for developing the organization
■ Noga (2017) opines that this makes it much necessary that these
initiative are taken to improve the growth and developmental
prospects of the communities
■ In essence the focus should be more on the optimal development of
the community

References
■ Davy, C., Cass, A., Brady, J., DeVries, J., Fewquandie, B., Ingram, S.,
Mentha, R., Simon, P., Rickards, B., Togni, S. and Liu, H., 2016.
Facilitating engagement through strong relationships between primary
healthcare and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
peoples. Australian and New Zealand journal of public health, 40(6),
pp.535-541.
■ Group, D. (2019). Our community partners. [online]
Wesfarmers.com.au. Available at:
https://www.wesfarmers.com.au/our-impact/community/partnerships/o
ur-community-partners#indigenous-programs [Accessed 10 Sep.
2019].
■ Noga, J.M., 2017. A framework for corporate engagement in water,
sanitation, and hygiene initiatives.