Human Resource Management

Gary Dessler 16th Edition

Instructor: Raza Hussain Lashari M.Phil. (Leadership & Management)

Senior Lecturer Department of Management Sciences

E.mail: razahussain10312@gmail.com

GRADING BREAKUP AND POLICY

%age
Sr# Item Weightage
1 Assignment 10

2 Quiz 10

3 Term Project Presentation/Class Participation 05

4 Mid Term Examination 25

5 Final Term Examination 50

Recommended Textbook:
1.Human Resource Management by Gary Dessler (16th Edition (2022)
2.Notes/other material
Raza Hussain Lashari (Senior Lecturer DMS)
Raza Hussain Lashari (Senior Lecturer DMS)
Part 01: Introduction to Human Resource Management
Chapter 02: Equal Employment Opportunity & the Law

Raza Hussain Lashari (Senior Lecturer DMS)

Part 01: Introduction to Human Resource Management
Chapter 02: Equal Employment Opportunity & the Law

A few years ago lawyers filed a federal lawsuit against Uber Technologies.
They said Uber’s questionable performance appraisal system produced
performance ratings that led to male Uber employees getting better raises than
women.1 We will see how to
avoid such problems.

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Part 01: Introduction to Human Resource Management
Chapter 02: Equal Employment Opportunity & the Law

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) aims to ensure that anyone, regardless of race, color,
disability, sex, religion, national origin, or age, has an equal opportunity based on his or her
qualifications.
Affirmative action
Taking actions (in recruitment, hiring, promotions, and compensation) to eliminate the current effects of
past discrimination.
Sexual harassment
Harassment on the basis of sex that has the purpose or effect of substantially interfering with a person’s
work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment.

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Chapter 02: Equal Employment Opportunity & the Law

Workplace Diversity
The variety or multiplicity of demographic features that characterize a company’s workforce,
particularly in terms of race, sex, culture, national origin, handicap, age, and religion.

Benefits of workforce diversity

People management
Organizational performance

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Potential Threats to Diversity

Stereotyping. Here someone ascribes specific behavioral traits to individuals based on their apparent
membership in a group: for example, “older people can’t work hard.”
Gender role stereotypes
The tendency to associate women with certain (frequently nonmanagerial) jobs.
Prejudice is a bias toward prejudging someone based on that person’s traits, as in “we won’t hire him
because he’s old.”
Discrimination is prejudice in action. It means taking specific actions toward or against the person
based on the person’s group.
Tokenism means a company appoints a small group of women or minorities to high-profile positions,
rather than more aggressively seeking full representation for that group.

Glass celling The term refers to the invisible barrier that separates women and minorities from top
management positions.

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Chapter 02: Equal Employment Opportunity & the Law

Managing Diversity
The key to deriving such benefits is properly managing diversity’s potential problems. Maximizing
diversity’s potential benefits while minimizing its potential barriers.
• Provide strong leadership
• Assess the situation
• Provide diversity training and education.
• Change culture and management systems
• Evaluate the diversity management program

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Chapter 02: Equal Employment Opportunity & the Law

Important Terms

Benchmarking
The best practices among competitors or non-competitors that lead to their superior performance.

Whistle-blower
Individual who raises ethical concerns or issues to others.

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