Affirmative Action

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Affirmative Action

By

Ginny Bullen

Student of Axia

February 28, 2010

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Although many people believe that affirmative action is a form of racism, it is actually used to

help minorities find employment in an otherwise racist world. At our company we need to make

sure that we become an equal opportunity employer. We need to make sure that we are following

guidelines to make sure that we become an employer that people want to work for. Without

affirmative action we would not be where we are as a company.

As a company we should collect data that will help us understand if we have enough men,

women and minorities working at our company. Then we could hold a meeting and hand out a

questionnaire to have employees to answer, this way we know how the employees are feeling

about the company and how they feel about the different men, women and minority groups that

are with the company. This way as a company we are an equal opportunity employer, but at the

same time we are getting qualified employees that are men, women and minorities. This will

help our company succeed to the fullest, with the best employees that a company could have.

We would have to make sure that with the equal opportunity employer status that we also

make sure that we are following the affirmative action laws. In the U.S., the effort to improve the

employment and educational opportunities of women and members of...