Assignment #3 15 points (10%)
TOP DIVERSITY ORGANIZATION (Length: 6-8 pages)
Examine, analyze and describe the diversity activities of one of the following 10 top organizations (Fortune 2020) http://fortune.com/best-workplaces-for-diversity/:
1. Hilton (Hospitality)
2. Ultimate Software (Information Technology)
3. Wegmans Food Markets Inc. (Retail)
4. Cisco (Information Technology)
5. Workday. (Information Technology)
6. Salesforce (Information Technologyy)
7. Edward Jones (Financial Services and Insurance)
8. Stryker (Manufacturing and Production)
9. American Express (Financial Services and Insurance)
10. Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants (Hospitality)
Provide the following information as part of the analysis:
1. Cover page (APA format)
2. Abstract (150 words)
3. Table of Contents
4. Organization history and operational philosophy relative to diversity and inclusion
5. Business case for developing and institutionalizing a diversity/inclusion process
6. Challenges posed by the process
7. Successes and impact on organizational competitiveness
8. Scholastic viewpoints:
9. Organizations outlook for the future
10. References
Use writing guidelines from Assignment Two (Item 4 Part 2).
Use your own expertise to analyze the situation (you do not need to answer all of these questions in your essay; use them to guide your thought process).
• What could the company have done differently?
• How could they have avoided this problem?
• What did they do effectively/ineffectively?
• What strategies should the company have implemented to manage the diversity and/or inclusion problem/crisis?
• Has the company really recovered? If so, how and if not, why not?
• Does the crisis represent a leadership problem, and/or a management problem?
• While examining the specific diversity/inclusion case, utilize the textbooks material as a FRAMEWORK for your analysis. Specifically, integrate the diversity/inclusion management paradigms as found in the texts (i.e. resistance, discrimination-and-fairness, access-and-legitimacy, and integration-and-learning, and intercultural incompetence) as a theoretical framework for your discussion.
Note: Section One and Section Two should reflect a coherent, balanced discussion. You may write the two sections separately, or you may INTEGRATE the two sections.
5. Sources. When looking for an article that interests you, there are many magazines and academic journals from which to choose: DiversityInc. Magazine, HR Executive, Fortune, Forbes, Newsweek, Time, Harvard Business Review, etc. Furthermore, you may be able to find an interesting article in a local or national newspaper. Remember the helpful resource of diversity Web sites: vault.com, workindex.com, diversityinc.com, etc.
6. Referencing. Be sure to define the concepts that you incorporate from the textbooks by clearly and accurately quoting or paraphrasing. When you do any type of referencing (quoting or paraphrasing borrowed material), you must use APA style manual.
