Overview
Scenario
The CEO, Joan Jackson, calls to discuss Venus Widget’s commitment to diversity in domestic and upcoming global operations. She wants your help preparing so that recruitment, onboarding, and compensation/benefits for new employees from a variety of locations is handled legally and ethically. She is asking for a detailed outline of an Organizational Diversity Plan for Venus Widgets.
This week the CEO wants you to construct a diversity plan for the organization.
For your project, please include the following:
- What does having employees from different cultural backgrounds and value systems mean for the company?
- What would be the benefits of diversity for this company?
- What possible hurdles may be encountered with the inclusion of new, culturally different, employees?
- What will you do to ensure that the new work teams are able to work together effectively, while being inclusive and respecting each other's differences?
Be specific, giving examples of different cultural backgrounds and value systems.
Your paper should be a minimum of 3 pages, using proper APA formatting and including at least 3 credible sources cited in your paper through in-text citations. Include an APA formatted title page and reference page. Your paper should also be free of grammatical errors.
Suggested library databases to research these topics include Business Source Complete via EBSCO and Business via ProQuest for articles, and O'Reilly Safari and eBooks via EBSCO for eBooks.
*A note about credible sources: Credible sources are reliable, accurate, and trustworthy. These sources are written by authors respected in their fields of study. You want to identify sources where the author of the article is listed, if they've referenced other information, the sources should be cited so that you can check for the accuracy of and support what they have written. Wikipedia is not considered a credible source.
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