Affirmative Action Plan

Affirmative Action Paper

Monica Martin

University of Phoenix - Las Colinas

Employment Law

MGT 434

Ken Rhymes

August 31, 2010

This writing will discuss the elements of Affirmative Action, its importance and the requirements for employers in public and private sectors.

Affirmative Action can be described as specific actions in recruitment, hiring, promotions, and other areas which are designed and taken to eliminate the effects of discrimination in the workplace. The objective of affirmative action is to maximize targeted through recruitments and minority utilizations. It is also designed to decrease discrimination and support the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in abolishing discrimination in job categories where there is a lingering effort of past discrimination. Objectives also include the correction of necessary employment practices that hamper Equal Employment Opportunities by analyzing specific practices and implementing corrective actions.

Other objective of affirmative action is to strengthen the accountability and evaluation by assigning more responsibility to agency heads and their designers. Also to promote support for EEO and workforce diversity by providing training regarding fair employment practices to employee’s supervisors, managers, and executives.

An Affirmative Action Plan is a program in which an employer makes certain that all employees have and will receive promotion based on merit without regard to race color, religion, sex, national origin, age and disability.

The elements if an Affirmative Action Plan is to have policy statements that will cover Equal Employment Opportunity. Designation of responsibility providing documentation and identification of all individuals involved in the Affirmative Action process. Other elements include organizational charts, grievance procedures, workforce availability action statements and also goals and time tables.

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