Will enable each individual the opportunity to reach their full potential, is more than just compliance. It is about the development of cultures, to meet the needs of organizational members are beneficial at all levels. An organization dedicated to diversity must go through the placement of persons on long-term task, their upward movement in this organization. Although often used interchangeably, affirmative action and diversity are two different concepts,the ability to work together to improve representation of under-represented groups in organizations.
Affirmative action is on statutory guidelines require federal contractors to employment procedures results, and develop a workforce that is of the community in which they work, reflecting on. Resulting from historic discriminatory employment practices, affirmative action policy was intended to ensure that federal contractors good faith efforts to recruit, hire, training madeand promoting qualified minorities and women. The issue of affirmative action requires more than just working to avoid discriminatory behavior, but also actively tried to make the damage of past discrimination to reverse.
While affirmative action is focused on constructive steps to get individuals into the organization that operates the diversity of cultural change that organization. Instead of just changing the representation of the number of their employees, organizations, dedicated to a diverse workforceThe value in a mixture of different cultures, backgrounds and experiences.
Sybil Randolph and Dawn Hyde in Cultivating Your Affirmative Action Program on Infertile Ground explain affirmative action as being present when organizations:
· Have and adhere to a policy of equal opportunities
To assess · analyze their employees, possible areas of goals for underrepresented minorities and women
Ì Develop an action plan to eliminate under representation and make good faithEfforts to execute the plan
The goal of implementing affirmative action is to create a workforce that is the area that operates in the reflective to an entrepreneur. But Randolph and Hyde clarify the different functions of the two concepts by defining diversity as being present "when organizations, individuals for the knowledge, skills values, talents and abilities that they bring, the Organization for the benefit of the economy."
A variety of orientation shows that for employeesDiversity is a key element in the organizational function, because they:
· Represents an integration of HR strategies and practices in a "bundle", the leadership of the organization toward diversity and diversity management
· Are the promotion of diversity through education and training, work design, staffing and compensation programs (including internal and external equity)
Combines · other related decisions that impact diversity in the decision processProcess
Employees who believe that their organization internalized this philosophy, see more value in their differences, paving the way for the effectiveness of creativity and innovation. Affirmative action programs and initiatives in diversity, that similar, and either be truly effective, employees must have confidence that management is dedicated to implementation.
Unfortunately, organization, and organizational politics is not always consistent. ForThus qualified minorities and women could possible access to company doors, but the same people may be discouraged and professional development is stagnating, if not in combination with a diversity orientation. Hence the need to allow against minorities and women to lead their potential through career development work is a must.
The demographic change will have to change organizations to keep the commitment and to mobilize for the productivity of the workforce.This shift is for training and promoting qualified people of the call, even if they do not look or think like, what was traditionally regarded as "fit" for the organization.
Lee Gardenswartz and Anita Rowe, Managing Diversity in confirming this attitude to the different responsibilities of the affirmative action and diversity in building an inclusive environment. Affirmative action is a catalyst, the different channels, a number of employees in theOrganization.
However, after developing a diverse workforce, the organization may be considered to create an environment where everyone's needs and values, are for people who do not benefit as "different" and organizational and management practices punished the whole.