CASE QUESTIONS

1. Define diversity and the concept of workplace diversity. How is diversity a strategic business imperative for organizations in general, and JBS in particular? Explain the importance of these concepts at JBS.

2. Who are the stakeholders in this case? How was each stakeholder harmed or benefited when the union representatives and company’s management met with Somali workers and agreed to accommodate a prayer time at sunset by moving a scheduled break up 15 minutes?

3. What is pluralism? Why is pluralism important in relation to the issues at JBS?

4. How could JBS Grand Island’s management and union representatives have avoided these issues?

5. Based on what you have learned regarding training and development; develop a detailed training program that includes orienting employees, the training process, analyzing training needs, implementing training and development, diversity training and evaluating the training effort.

Report Guidelines

1. Add your recommendations. Support your recommendation based on the theory learned in our text and other academic articles. Your recommendations must demonstrate how the HR Department must successfully respond to these challenges and implement new tools, processes, policies, systems, etc. that will help the organization. Make sure that your paper is HRM-based research, using HRM references/textbooks.

This assignment is to be treated as a primary research. It should be in sufficient depth to exceed the extent to which the text covers the material. This is a research paper, not an opinion paper. Because this is a Human Resource class, you must address how the topic affects the HR profession.