Cultural Diversity Considerations in Health Care Organizations
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) was established in 1965 and its purpose is to enforce “federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate against a job applicant or an employee because of the person’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information” (n.d.).
For this Assignment, select three cultural diversity considerations HR departments may need to address, such as company culture, unconscious bias, potentially discriminatory hiring practices, etc. Acting as if you are in the role of human resources coordinator, examine the need for culture change, manager/employee training programs, and new policies to address your chosen issues. Describe how you would implement these changes in the workplace.
Assignment guidelines
You may complete the Assignment in any of the following ways. Please be sure to review the minimum submission requirements for each option:
A document, which can be laid out in a Q & A format or written as a paper.
An informational brochure or pamphlet. You may use a Microsoft Word template to add graphics and pictures.
A PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes.
For the PowerPoint options:
Your submission is created in a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.
To meet the objective requirements, your presentation is at least 7 slides in length and a minimum of 500 words.
Your submission includes specific examples of concepts, topics, definitions, and other elements to demonstrate mastery of the objective.
Your submission includes a highly developed viewpoint and purpose.
Your response is in Standard English and demonstrates superior organization.
Your communication is highly ordered, logical and unified, as well as original and insightful.
Your submission displays exceptional content, organization, style, and mechanics.
A separate slide at the end of your presentation contains a list of references.
Include both in-text and reference list citations where appropriate and reference all sources used following proper APA citation style.
Please review the APA formatting and citation style in Academic Tools – Academic Writer.
Requirements for all options:
Analyze the need for equal employment opportunity laws and how these laws prevent discrimination and guide organizational culture. Includes supporting details from sources for all of the following:
Why equal opportunity employment laws are needed.
How these laws prevent discrimination in the healthcare workplace.
How equal employment opportunity laws can guide organizational culture.
Investigate the nature of statutory and contractual rights in employee/employer relations. Includes supporting details from sources for all of the following:
Statutory rights of employees.
Contractual rights of employees.
Describe how statutory and contractual rights protect both employees and employers.
Describe the impact of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) on healthcare organizations. Includes supporting details from sources for all of the following:
Protections unions provide for employees
The importance of being collaborative with unions
Discuss how discrimination is handled for unionized employees.
Select and describes a cultural diversity consideration the HR department needs to address and discusses possible solutions. Includes supporting details from sources for all of the following:
A cultural diversity consideration that may be occurring in the organization
Solutions to address the cultural diversity consideration
How changes will be implemented
