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SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
RESEARCH IN BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT
DIVERSITY AND EQUALITY AT WORK: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
PREPARED BY: SAMED OLUKOYA
20010/11.
Table of Contents
1.0 DIVERSITY AND EQUALITY AT WORK: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES 1
1.1 ABSTRACT 1
2.0 INTRODUCTION 2
3.0 DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT AT WORK 3
4.0 ORGANIZATION CULTURE AS DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT TOOL 3
4.1 ORGANIZATION CULTURE AS MECHANISM FOR UNIFORMITY 4
5.0 EQUALITY AT WORK 4
6.0 OPPORTUNITIES OF DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT AND EQUALITY 5
6.1 BARRIERS TO DIVERSITY AND EQUALITY 6
7.0 REFERENCE AND BIBLOGRPHY 7
1.0 DIVERSITY AND EQUALITY AT WORK: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
1.1 ABSTRACT
Purpose: This literature review examines the challenges encountered by people of diverse culture and homosexuals at work and how organizations can use organization culture as a diversity and equality management tool.
Originality: Strategic combinations of various theories to better explain opportunities and challenges confronting diversity and equality at work for strategic management and understanding.
2.0 INTRODUCTION
Over the years diversity and equality have been addressed as major obstacle to potential achievement at work, most researchers explained the imperative of these two and the under laying enigma to its actualization (Stonewall, 2008). Since 1970, most Government laws and regulation instituted correctional measure to further demonstrate fairness to all group of people base on gender, race, sexual orientation, public acceptability, interpersonal relationship and tolerance (Levine and Leonard, 1984; Palmer, 1993; Snape et al., 1995). The recent repeal of “Don’t ask don’t tell” homosexual law in the military further pave enormous way for this realization, this was the law...