DIVERSITY AND EQUALITY

People who are Rationalised at Work: Diversity and Equality at Work: Opportunities and Challenges.



People who are Rationalised at Work: Diversity and Equality at Work: Opportunities and Challenges.

Introduction

This paper identifies arguments and reasons for continued interest in diversity matters, and distinguishes workplace diversity initiatives from other organizational efforts to promote workplace equity, such as equal employment opportunity and affirmative action. The discussion then contrasts the examples of different scholar's model like Kandola and Fullerton work and practical approaches to workplace diversity. Next, it focuses on career development and identifies some of the career challenges confronted by minority workers, even within the increasingly diverse workplace. Effective strategies for achieving equal opportunity in career development for organizations are summarized, and the paper concludes with a discussion of the benefits of workplace diversity.

At the same time, Webb (2007) argued that other dimensions of workforce diversity such as sexuality and 'age' agenda in the UK are also (or should be) part of the agenda in seeking to democratise relations inside UK labour market and represent workers effectively. The paper discusses the example of British organisation in the UK which is traditionally engaged in equality and diversity activities extending beyond the workplace (Webb 2007, p.163).

Debate Regarding the Equality and diversity at Work Place

Adkins and Lury (2000) states that, equality, as a working definition might be "total absence of discrimination between human beings, with respect to their rights." However, it can be believed that this is not enough, but is a much broader and encompassing so many factors that can, in many cases this even determine our lives. The debate of Inequality has been going on since the beginning of time, and Wolkowitz (2002) has maintained a constant struggle against it, but rarely achieved equality proposal, and it was during the French Revolution when this debate reached its integrity as a concept, and a value began to be advocate globally, represented in the motto: "Liberty, equality and fraternity."

Historical Impact

According to Atwater (2009), the inclusion of this word in the phrase because it was in 1789, the Third Estate (the people) rebelled against the nobility and clergy, which required a tax increase. The deputies of the Third Estate, (Butler 2004, p. 55), joined to form the Constituent Assembly, and important political documents drawn up abolishing aristocratic privileges seeking equality, as was the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, history of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, seeking global recognition of this value. Therefore, according to Castells (2000), equality between races, gender equality, which are not unique, however, which is perhaps the most concern to people because they are present in daily life.

Why deal with sexual diversity in the workplace?

According to Hyde (2005), the workplace is a fundamental social space in the lives of people and therefore, the working time for their daily life and its proximity, a vital key make visible, to make clear the equality, dignity of lesbian, gays, transsexuals and bisexuals. Garvey and Galloway (2008) explaions, the challenge that ...