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Diversity & Equality Flashcards

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What Does CIPD Stand for?

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Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

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What are the 9 Protected Characteristics?

who put them in place?

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  1. Age
  2. Disability
  3. Gender Reassignment
  4. Marriage & Civil Partnership
  5. Pregnancy & Maternity
  6. Race
  7. Religion or Beliefs
  8. Sex
  9. Sexual Orientation

CIPD outlined them

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What are the two contrasting theories?

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Diversity & Equality

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What is the equal opportunities (equality) approach?

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It is to treat everyone as equal/same

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What is the managing diversity approach?

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to treat everyone differently

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Equal Opportunities 6 Factors?

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  1. Sameness of Treatment
  2. To address social injustices
  3. A Rights based perspective (Web, 1997)
  4. Distributive Justice
  5. Procedural Justice
  6. Led to Managers focusing on legal compliance and defensive, self proactive actions
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3 Factors making the equality act 2010

HINT: Equal Chance…

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  1. Equal chance to apply and be selected for posts pre employment
  2. Equal chance to be trained and promoted while employed within an organisation
  3. Equal chance to have employment terminated equally and fairly.
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What happens if a business does not allow any of the above factors?

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Is against the equality act of 2010 and could lead to legal action being taken

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6 Differences for both Equal Opportunities and Managing Diversity (12 total)

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Equal Opportunities:

  1. Legal Obligation
  2. Externally Imposed
  3. Explicit
  4. Collective
  5. Human Rights
  6. Sameness (treated same)

Managing Diversity:

  1. Business Case (individual business)
  2. Internally Driven
  3. Implicit
  4. Individual
  5. Human Resource
  6. Difference
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Managing Diversity definition

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Systematic and planned commitment to recruit, retain and reward employees from diverse demographic backgrounds

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Why are organisations interested in diversity management? (4)

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  1. positive organisational self interest
  2. Penalty avoidance
  3. demographic changes in the composition of the labour market
  4. Structural changes in the demand for labour, in regard to globalisation and expansion of service economies
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What makes up the business case in regard to diversity (6) (benefits of diversity)

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  1. Best use of HR
  2. Flexible workforce
  3. Representative workforce
  4. Corporate Image
  5. Ethical Investors
  6. New business ideas
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What happens if business case for diversity is not followed through? (2) (name & year)

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  1. Not using skills to the full extent is costly to the business
  2. According to Storey 1995, Business case ties in with Strategic HRM, the utilisation of this gives a competitive edge.
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MOSAIC what does each letter stand for?

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M: Mission & Values
O: Objective & Fair Process
S: Skilled Workforce
A: Active Flexibility
I: Individual Focus
C: Culture that empowers
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What does MOSAIC business case have to do with the actual MOSAIC pattern?

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Relation to business case is that “the differences come together to create a whole organisation in the same way that single pieces of a mosaic come together to create a pattern.” Kandola & Fullteron

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3 Principles for managing diversity business case?

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  1. Strategy
  2. Execution
  3. Success
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6 Stages of the employee life cycle? (RSPST)

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  1. Recruitment
  2. Selection
  3. Performance
  4. Succession
  5. Transition
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Define Business Case?

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The arguments you might use to persuade an organisation to engage (with managing / encouraging diversity).

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6 Disadvantages of business case

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  1. Lack of clear / shared purpose
  2. Lack of strategic orientation
  3. Lack of clear definitions
  4. Based on a lack of understanding of the sociological, political and economic dynamics within and between different groups and identities
  5. Lack of reference to psychological theories of attitudinal and behavioural change.
  6. Often focused on legal requirements, and can become defensive
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Diversity Definition?

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‘any significant difference that distinguishes one individual from another’

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4 Categories of diversity

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  1. Personality (traits, skills)
  2. Internal Characteristics (gender, race, ethnicity, sex orient)
  3. External Characteristics (culture, nationality, religion, marriage status)
  4. Organisational Characteristics (position, dep, union non union)
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Outside reading examples for exam in regard to Diversity Management for business case (2 business and examples of how)

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  1. Cisco announced the launch of its Diverse Representation Framework (DRF), a system that provides data to help hiring managers find talent in the markets where they do business. Cisco plans to scale DRF with its leaders worldwide
  2. Jhonson & Jhonson have ‘Diversity University’, which is a dynamic website that helps employees to understand the benefits of working collaboratively. ensuring that all employees help to create an inclusive environment.

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