Value of Diversity in the Workplace Paper

Essay by FrankwalshUniversity, Bachelor'sA+, December 2009

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Diversity is defined as acknowledging, understanding, accepting, valuing, and celebrating differences among people with respect to age, class, ethnicity, gender, physical and mental ability, race, sexual orientation, spiritual practice, and public assistance status.(Esty, Griffin, & Schorr-Hirsh). A corporation's duty is to understand completely, and take the necessary steps to implement a diversity program in the workplace. My former employer was a U S owned and based Contract Operations Corporation with world-wide projects. The human resource department appeared to be second to no other; policies and procedures were abundant. However, there is always an obvious diversity issue that will turn a person's world upside down.

This document will center on a diversity issue that occurred while during my employment with another corporation.

People within the organization have been answering potential client's request for bids for years. The proposal process is not lightly taken and every request for bid is processed on its own merits.

Project staffing has historically been a problem for my former employer and has ultimately leads to the corporation's inability to satisfy the requirements of the agreement between the 2 parties. As a direct result of the previous failures, upper management, and the human resources team put together what they considered the ultimate staffing plan, and put me in charge to carry it out.

From day one, the employee staffing plan was in trouble. The project was one employee short and was in trouble. Two weeks into the project, termination of an employee occurred for failure to follow safety regulations. One month into the project, a replacement was at the project to replace the terminated employee. This person lit up human resources eyes. The new employee possessed the required job skills, was a women, and her sexual orientation was different. Human resources thought they had hit a diversity...