Diversity, Human Resource Management and Organizational Goals the Women Case and Others

{draw:frame} Human Resource Management HRMT20007 Robert Grindrod Assignment 1: Diversity, Human Resource Management and Organizational Goals ' The Women Case and others. DANIEL PESCE S0172398 {draw:rect} December, 2008 Introduction Some years ago, people only used diversity for non white male. Nowadays, diversity has a wider meaning. It includes many aspects of society like race, gender, age, sexual preference, life style, etc. (Jackson et al. 1992). This meaning is important to understand because Australia has a diverse demographic composition. This condition can be seen in the Australian work force as well. In the national working environment we can find diversity of gender (women), age and ethnic (De Cieri et al. 2008). Diversity is considerable important because it can affect productivity and profit. In some cases could be a problem but in others diversity can improve teamwork, decision making process and creativity (Bach 2005) throughout efficient human resource policies. In other words, diversity can improve efficiency to bring competitive advantages in order to penetrate global markets and to increase profit (De Cieri et al. 2008). In order to take advantage of those attributes of diversity, organizations need to manage it. The way to manage that is applying Human Resource Management (HRM). It provides polices and systems to influence workers’ behaviour. As a consequence, HRM influences the performance of the company (De Cieri et al. 2008). An optimal diversity management policies and tools can bring the best of diversity. Once it is done, diversity becomes a competitive advantage (Henderson 1994). Diversity*, *women and *oth*er cases This essay is going to treat diversity focused on the women case. In order to do that, first the concept of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) is presented. In this stage we are going to see many aspects of diversity (the gender is one of them). Second, a case study about women is explained and analysed. Finally,

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