Management
Diversity in the Workplace / Wal- Mart Case
Shirley Nolan
October 30, 2011
Class #: 1109MGMT
Section: 610514
Turnitint Score: 14%
This Research paper is about diversity in the workplace. It also talks about how management handles diversity in the workplace and how they view it. The case that I will be talking about is the Wal-Mart case. This case will also show you how leadership played a very important role in this case when it comes to the managers that work for this company. This case had a big in pack on the retail organizations around the world. Woman that works for Wal-Mart are not given the same advances that the males are in the same position in this company. I also talk about some suggestions that managers at Wal-Mart could have done different to stop this case from going to the Supreme Court on June 20, 2001. One of the most significant issues that management faces today is diversity in the workplace. “Diversity means employing people without discrimination on the basis of gender, age and ethnic or racial background.” (Graves, 1993, p .4). Diversity has important implications for the values of an organization’s culture and for organizational effectiveness. Management is the process by which a person in a supervisory role focuses on planning, organizing, leading and controlling, the work of others to assist an organization in achieving its goals. Managers have to sustain themselves within an environment that is affected and influenced by internal and external factors. Dealing with diversity is a long-term process that a manager has to face each day in an organization. Because organizational culture is about the deeply held values and often unconscious assumption about what is and is not valued in the organization, it cannot be change either quickly or directly. To create a strong culture for diversity, three factors that managers can manipulate directly must be aligned. These factors are leadership, strategy and, human
Shirley Nolan
October 30, 2011
Class #: 1109MGMT
Section: 610514
Turnitint Score: 14%
This Research paper is about diversity in the workplace. It also talks about how management handles diversity in the workplace and how they view it. The case that I will be talking about is the Wal-Mart case. This case will also show you how leadership played a very important role in this case when it comes to the managers that work for this company. This case had a big in pack on the retail organizations around the world. Woman that works for Wal-Mart are not given the same advances that the males are in the same position in this company. I also talk about some suggestions that managers at Wal-Mart could have done different to stop this case from going to the Supreme Court on June 20, 2001. One of the most significant issues that management faces today is diversity in the workplace. “Diversity means employing people without discrimination on the basis of gender, age and ethnic or racial background.” (Graves, 1993, p .4). Diversity has important implications for the values of an organization’s culture and for organizational effectiveness. Management is the process by which a person in a supervisory role focuses on planning, organizing, leading and controlling, the work of others to assist an organization in achieving its goals. Managers have to sustain themselves within an environment that is affected and influenced by internal and external factors. Dealing with diversity is a long-term process that a manager has to face each day in an organization. Because organizational culture is about the deeply held values and often unconscious assumption about what is and is not valued in the organization, it cannot be change either quickly or directly. To create a strong culture for diversity, three factors that managers can manipulate directly must be aligned. These factors are leadership, strategy and, human
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