Implementing a Diversity Management Plan at Flyways Aircraft Company

This report presents a diversity management plan designed for Flyways Aircraft Company, addressing challenges in managing a diverse workforce. The plan's purpose is to provide strategic guidance to managers and supervisors in maintaining a qualified and diverse workforce, fostering collaboration, fairness, and equality. The goals include tailoring operations to meet demographic differences, engaging staff, and promoting accountability. Objectives include developing diversity as a core value through communication and surveys, establishing partnerships for recruitment, implementing targeted recruitment strategies, and ensuring talent management for a diverse workforce through performance plans, coaching, and mentoring. The plan emphasizes communication, training, and the establishment of standard operating procedures to ensure the effective implementation of diversity initiatives. The report incorporates references to relevant literature on diversity management in organizations.

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Purpose of the Plan
As found from the case study, the Flyways aircraft company is facing some issue in
managing the diverse workforce. The employees are facing huge problem in working with
people from different cast, nation and age group. The issue in managing the diversity has led the
company to promote team work within the organization. The purpose of designing the diversity
management implementation plan is to provide focused and strategic guidance assisting the
directorate, managers, project leaders, supervisors and staffs in maintaining a diverse and highly
qualified workforce. It recognizes the essential actions and highest priorities which must be
included in the services creating an environment of collaboration,fairness, equality and fairness
in the organization. I am the human resource manager of Flyways Aircraft Company who will be
structuring the implementation plan of diversity management in the organization.
Goals of the Plan
The goals of the diversity management plan is to tailor the organization’s operations
tailored to meet the demographic differences within. In order to make the diversity management
a success, the staffs, the managers, the supervisors, the project leads will be engaged and equally
committed. They will hold themselves accountable for taking proactive steps in implementing
the action items recognized in the plan. It will help in progressing towards our goals.
Developing Diversity as a core Value
This is the first objective, the emphasis will be on the communication from the top level
of the management of the organization. The aim of this objective is to ensure that the
supervisors, the managers, crews, the pilot, the ground and the flight attendants have a clear
understanding of the role of diversity in fostering a positive culture in the organization. There

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will be deputies designated for leading the implementation of the plan. They will also assess the
progress for each of the objectives in each directorate meeting. The assessment will be supported
by the reports by the senior managers. At the directorate meeting, the report will be the topic of
discussion for ensuring that the directors are aware of the progress. It will enable them to take
any corrective action if any barrier comes during the implementation. The objective requires a
climate survey around the Flyways Aircraft Company for getting an overview of the staffs’
perceptions on equality in the workplace, equal opportunity for determining the necessary
actions for further improvement. It also emphasizes the urgency of training and development
along with the cultural awareness which will make the leaders prepared for the management of a
diverse workforce. The employee efforts will be recognized which will help in the promotion of
diversity in the workforce.
The establishment of partnership and recruitment sources
This is the second objective of the implementation plan necessary for building and
strengthening relationship. The aim will be to enhance the partnership between the Flyways
Aircraft and targeted organizations. It will enable the increase of the candidate pools and the
internship opportunities. Under this objective the Flyway aircraft company will find and contact
with recruiters who will help in reaching the individuals out from the target group. The deputies
designated will participate in the recruitment programs and present this participation in the
accomplishment report. Along with this, there will be skill-building workshops to locate the
internships. The effective execution of these activities will help in increasing the diversity of the
candidates pools required for employment.
The conduction of the targeted recruitment

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The purpose of the objective 3 is to emphasize on the necessity to develop a properly
planned and collaborative recruitment strategies which will recruit people with low participation
group members. It will elaborate on the roles of the human resource specialists, the recruiters
along with the hiring officials in our Aircraft company. Their roles is reaching the target groups
founded on the demographics and the required qualifications will also be elaborated. The focus
of this objective will be on hiring broadly for recruiting extremely talented applicants from every
part of the population. Under this objective, each of the deputies will recognize the key program
managers for assisting in the recruitment and the other activities. The hiring official along with
the human resource specialists will collaborate in applying strategies which reach the targeted
groups of people from various places. The hiring officials will begin to recruit as a first point of
contact while planning to fulfill the vacancies. The outcome of this objective is that there will be
a strongly planned recruitment process where talented candidates will be selected from all parts
of the groups.
The talent management for diverse workforce
The objective 4 is solely based on the necessity to ensure that the employee performance
plan exist for each every staff in order to make them know their job responsibilities, the role in
making the organization successful, the expectation son their performance. It further elaborates
the requirement for the managers to provide opportunities to the individuals apart from
developing individual development plans in order to make them gain knowledge. It will be
helpful in improving their current job performance or design future leadership skill. This
objective when implemented within the organization will help the employees gain equal
opportunity, experience the benefits and getting acknowledged for better performance. Each
member will feel valued as a part of the organization. Lastly, this objective will focus on the

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coaching and mentoring which are the most effective tools for helping the employees develop as
individuals. They will understand how to carry out the responsibilities given to them. Under this
objective there will be the establishment of the standard operating procedures such as the
recruitment check list. It will be helpful in implementing the role of the recruiter in the hiring
process. The demographics will be researched for reaching the target members. The manager
and the supervisor will be recognized to provide necessary opportunities that develops the
leadership skills. It will be ensured that the first –level supervisors have implemented the
effective IDP for the staffs.

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