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- preferential treatment, usually through a quota system, to prevent, or correct, discriminatory employment practices, particularly relating to recruitment and promotion. The term is widely used...
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- The HR Doctor Is In
- The article discusses “Is affirmative action dead as a part of a county's Human Resource program? Should county policies be changed?” if affirmative action in your county means that decisions are made based only on race or gender and unquestioned preference in hiring, purchasing or other areas, then the answer...
- White papers
- Affirmative Action Officer
- The Affirmative Action Officer job description template includes the following job summary: This is a responsible professional position to ensure that the Town's Affirmative Action and Diversity Program meets the needs of the community in accordance with federal, state, and local laws. The program is under the direction of the...
- Tools & templates 2007-09-09
- Affirmative Action
- Appreciative Inquiry offers organisations a more positive approach to problem-solving. In the first of a three-part series, the authors' put the method into context for the people development professional Workplaces in the US, Northern Europe and the UK tend to exist within a culture where 'Problem-based' development approaches to learning...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- Affirmative Action: What Are My Obligations?
- Employers often have questions about Affirmative Action Programs (AAPs) that are used to address the diversity of their workforce. This article describes the conditions under which employers must have AAPs and, if they do, what they must contain. While employers that do not have federal contracts or subcontracts are not...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- The Impact of Affirmative Action Programs on Total Workforce Acquisition
- Your Affirmative Action Program (AAP) quantitative analyses have just been completed and placement goals established for job groups. You realize that there is more to the obligations of affirmative action than just establishing goals and distributing them throughout the organization. Perhaps your organization is not a federal contractor but you...
- White papers 2003-02-01
- Do all employers have to have a written Affirmative Action plan?
- Federal laws that require contractors to have written Affirmative Action Plan, the Rehabilitation Act, and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act. The requirements for written affirmative action plans apply to contractors or subcontractors The plans consist of statistical analysis of the employer’s under utilization of individuals from certain protected...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- EO Surveys & Affirmative Action
- The EO survey requires information regarding hires, promotions, terminations, and compensation is sent out to approximately 50,000 federal contractor facilities each year. The survey is intended to engage the federal contractor community in the process of self-analysis, i.e., to review their affirmative action programs and remove any vestiges of discrimination,...
- White papers 2002-07-24
- Case study: Affirmative Action
- A large independent bank employs about 1200 in multiple branches throughout Southern and Northern California. The bank had been asked to submit their Affirmative Action Plan .The plan and exhibits were submitted just under the deadline. JorgensenHR was hired on Monday to complete the required analyses and assemble the...
- Case studies 2002-01-01
- Does a Helping Hand Put Others At Risk?: Affirmative Action, Police Departments, and Crime
- Will increasing the number of minority and women police officers make law enforcement more effective by drawing on abilities that have gone untapped and creating better contact with communities and victims? Or will standards have to be lowered too far before large numbers of minorities and women can be hired?...
- White papers 2000-04-01
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- Personnel Analyst
- The Personnel Analyst job description template includes the following job summary: To perform professional personnel work in a variety of personnel program areas, including recruitment, examining, test development, validation, affirmative action, training, selection, labor relations, classification, and salary administration. Additional information available includes essential job functions, additional responsibilities, and education...
- Tools & templates 2007-09-09
- Music Production Position Paper
- Music Production refers to music's as they are practiced, expressed, created, shared, and disseminated by individuals and peoples of diverse cultural traditions, history, environment, and time, characterized by their diversity in concept, form, aesthetics, theory, style and mode of realization and communication. With music production as integral to every individual's...
- White papers 2003-07-03
- First Aid Attendant
- The First Aid Attendant job description template includes the following job summary: To provide leadership, guidance, and counsel to the Company's field operations (plants, R & D, and distribution centers) on company policies involving labor relations, compliance issues such as affirmative action, EEO, safety and health, and workers' compensation matters....
- Tools & templates 2007-09-09
- The Tao Of Leadership: Beyond Action And Non-action
- From the executive summary: ‘In developing a global mindset, association executives will find themselves more able to flow with continual change and transformation. Instead of resisting change or trying to conquer it in the typical Western manner, they will be able to embrace it through cultivating non-action at critical junctures....
- White papers 2000-08-01
- Revised Regulations Govern Employers With Federal Contracts Or Subcontracts
- From the executive summary: ‘Two significant new requirements apply to many employers that have a contract or subcontract with the Federal government. First, revised regulations redefine the components that Federal non-construction contractors and subcontractors must include in their annual written Affirmative Action Program (AAP). Second, the Office of Federal Contract...
- White papers 2001-06-01
- Director, Employee Relations - Field Operations
- The Director, Employee Relations - Field Operations job description template includes the following job summary: To provide leadership, guidance, and counsel to the Company's field operations (plants, R & D, and distribution centers) on company policies involving labor relations, compliance issues such as affirmative action, EEO, safety and health, and...
- Tools & templates 2007-09-09
- Director, Human Resources - Field Operations Job Description
- The Director, Human Resources - Field Operations job description template includes the following job summary: To provide leadership, guidance, and counsel to the company's field operations (plants, distribution centers, research and development facilities) on company policies involving labor relations, compliance issues such as affirmative action, EEO, safety and health, and...
- Tools & templates 2007-09-09
- Talent Management: Trends That Will Shape the Future
- Talent management practices have developed and adapted throughout the years in response to many changes in the workplace, from the industrial revolution and the rise of labor unions, to affirmative action, globalization, and outsourcing, to name just a few. While the war for talent clearly has cooled in the early...
- White papers 2004-03-09
- Using Action Learning
- Using Action LearningUsing action learning at workI have been part of several action learning groups, and part of their success depends on the motivation of the group, who is facilitating it, and how much the group know (or are prepared to learn) about it.It can be a very useful technique.RE:...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-16
- Employee Relations Coordinator - Nursing
- The Employee Relations Coordinator - Nursing job description template includes the following job summary: The Employee Relations Coordinator is responsible for the development and administration of the Medical Center's Employee/Guest Relations Program; nurse recruiting, employee advocacy, and affirmative action program. All methods of practice and/or work performance shall conform to...
- Tools & templates 2007-09-09
- Corrective Action (CAPA) Systems at Innovative Companies
- Increased regulatory pressures, the latest customer mandates and internal quality initiatives are requiring companies to take a proactive and automated approach to their corrective action process. Regulatory compliance requires organizations to capture all corrective action issues and track their corrective action process to completion. About 30% to 50% of all...
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