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On the 6 April 2011 in the United Kingdom the Positive Action Act relating specifically to recruitment and promotion in employment came into force to ensure that people with protected characteristics are not treated less favourably. This presentation defines what the protected characteristics are and explains the difference between positive discrimination and positive actions. The presentation then describes what companies can and cannot do to attract women into and promote women within engineering companies. Finally it discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using positive action.
This training module is part of the M-CARE Personal Care Giver training, as developed in the context of the M-CARE project (mcare-project.eu). You can access the learning platform and online toolbox via www.pcgcare.eu.
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3. What are the pros and cons of contracting out? If you have experience with contracting out, what challenges did you face in writing the contract specifications and what challenges did you face in administering the contract?
4. How does the historical development of job analysis relate to the differing objectives of elected and appointed officials, merit system advocates, HR directors and specialists, supervisors and managers, and employees? How are these reflected in the concepts of position management, human resource management, and career development?
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Social Equity and Diversity Management
Dr. James R. Welsh
Barry University
1
1
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Man is the most composite of all creatures....
“Well, as in the old burning of the Temple at Corinth, by the melting and intermixture of silver and gold and other metals a new compound more precious than any, called Corinthian brass, was formed; so in this continent,--asylum of all nations,--the energy of Irish, Germans, Swedes, Poles, and Cossacks, and all the European tribes,--of the Africans, and of the Polynesians,--will construct a new race, a new religion, a new state, a new literature, which will be as vigorous as the new Europe which came out of the smelting-pot of the Dark Ages, or that which earlier emerged from the Pelagic and Etruscan barbarism.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, journal entry, 1845,
The Metaphor of the Melting Pot…
Because of a continuous mass immigration that was a feature of the United States economy and society since the first half of the 19th century, ethnic diversity is common in both rural and urban areas.
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Today the United States can easily be considered one of the most diverse nations in the world.
Recent estimates show that one in three U.S. residents is a member of an ...
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POETRY MAGAZINE 1967 Martin Petavel, Michael Newman, Victor Delainey (James MacDonald).Joan Lee. Phoebe Timpson, D.M Kendall, David Gill.
Alistair Wisker, Rosemary Kent-Barber, Patrick Hare, Margaret Perkins.Veronica Timpson. Kaye Tea. Steve Sneyd.
Terence Heywood, Joan Lee, W.D Pearson,, Rodney Coe,, J.Clement,
Vi Bradley,.Wes Magee, Veronica Kendle, Phoebe Timpson,Marguerite Edmonds,,
David Telling, Yvonne Abbatt, Nigel Godsiffe, Terry Kingham, Anna Scher, Roy Bennett, R.G.T Harris-Bick-Ford, Robert Lowe, Peter Hoida, G.Levine, John Stevens Wade,
Jennifer Birt, Patricia Stughton, Peter Finch, Hilda Whelan, K.E Walker, N.S Jackson, Colleen MacNamara, Hugh McKinley.
Transport and Logistics: Cost reduction through vehicle trackingENAiKOON
distance under control
Vans and lorries are generally on the road – often
hundreds or even thousands of kilometres away from
company headquarters. There are few options available
for fleet operators and owners to monitor their vehicles.
Transport orders and high fuel prices make it essential
for the identification and elimination of unnecessary
expenses. Punctuality and adherence to delivery dates
are a major competitive advantage for the transport and
logistics industries.
The ENAiKOON locate series is the answer to these
challenges. They are small, empowering, affordable
devices, that takes your business the distance and and
keep it under control.
PUB 611Seminar in Public Human Resources Administration Midterm Exa.docxwoodruffeloisa
PUB 611Seminar in Public Human Resources Administration: Midterm Exam
Exam Questions
1. Identify and describe the four public personnel management functions (PADS).
2. What are the four competing values that have traditionally affected the allocation of public jobs? Which three nongovernment values that have emerged recently conflict with them?
3. What are the pros and cons of contracting out? If you have experience with contracting out, what challenges did you face in writing the contract specifications and what challenges did you face in administering the contract?
4. How does the historical development of job analysis relate to the differing objectives of elected and appointed officials, merit system advocates, HR directors and specialists, supervisors and managers, and employees? How are these reflected in the concepts of position management, human resource management, and career development?
5. Describe the contemporary pay and benefits environment.
6. Identify the elements included in a total compensation package.
7. Describe the comparative advantages and disadvantages of competing systems used to determine pay—point-factor job evaluation, rank-in person, and broad-banding.
8. Discuss how conflicts over the fairness of EEO, AA, and diversity management programs have affected the role of the public HR manager in achieving both productivity and fairness.
Social Equity and Diversity Management
Dr. James R. Welsh
Barry University
1
1
2
Man is the most composite of all creatures....
“Well, as in the old burning of the Temple at Corinth, by the melting and intermixture of silver and gold and other metals a new compound more precious than any, called Corinthian brass, was formed; so in this continent,--asylum of all nations,--the energy of Irish, Germans, Swedes, Poles, and Cossacks, and all the European tribes,--of the Africans, and of the Polynesians,--will construct a new race, a new religion, a new state, a new literature, which will be as vigorous as the new Europe which came out of the smelting-pot of the Dark Ages, or that which earlier emerged from the Pelagic and Etruscan barbarism.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, journal entry, 1845,
The Metaphor of the Melting Pot…
Because of a continuous mass immigration that was a feature of the United States economy and society since the first half of the 19th century, ethnic diversity is common in both rural and urban areas.
The absorption of the stream of immigrants became, in itself, a prominent feature of America's national myth.
The idea of the melting pot is a metaphor that implies that all the immigrant cultures are mixed and amalgamated without state intervention.
The melting pot theory implied that each individual immigrant, and each group of immigrants, assimilated into American society at their own pace.
Today the United States can easily be considered one of the most diverse nations in the world.
Recent estimates show that one in three U.S. residents is a member of an ...
A Report devised for FIFA to demonstrate the UK as a valuable candidate for the 2026 World Cup by Tara O'Sullivan, Fraser Hamilton and Aisha Habboucheh
Social skills at the centre of inclusion: from economic inclusion to social i...Karel Van Isacker
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More information can be found at http://www.challenge-is-inclusion.org/.
Child Abuse in the UK : Are Children Really Being Protected?IBB Law
This report examines whether changes in the law in relation to child abuse and protecting vulnerable groups has made any real impact. Malcolm Underhill of IBB Solicitors provides analysis on child abuse and the laws designed to protect children and vulnerable adults. As high profile child abuse cases coutinue, is the government actually doing anything that will help protect potential victims?
Adversity Essays. Adversity Essay Medical School Examples BeMo Academic Cons...Noel Brooks
Overcoming adversity essay examples - 378 Words - NerdySeal. ⇉Adversity Plays in the Advancement of a Person's Character Essay .... Adversity in Film and Literature Free Essay Example. Strong in Adversity. - University Linguistics, Classics and related .... Adversity essay conclusion paragraph. Sweet are The Uses of Adversity Essay | Essay on Sweet are The Uses of .... Types Of Adversity - Free Essay Example | PapersOwl.com. Overcoming Adversity to Become a Better Person Essay Example .... ARTMISC - Overcoming Adversity Essay - When I Was Younger From .... Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents essay. Impressive Overcoming Adversity Essay ~ Thatsnotus. ⇉Overcoming Obstacles in My Life Essay Example | GraduateWay. Overcoming adversity essay - When I was younger from kindergarten to .... Overcoming Adversity to Become a Better Person - Free Essay Example. Top 54 Adversity Quotes: Inspiring Words of Wisdom | Wanna Wish. Overcomming adversity Essay Example | Topics and Well Written Essays .... Adversity Essay Medical School Examples | BeMo Academic Consulting. Define overcome adversity essay. Adversity Essays: Examples, Topics, & Outlines | PaperDue. argumentative essay (1).pdf - Adversity is important in one's character .... Adversity Argumentative Essay Intro - Melissa Pante January 25 2016 AP .... ⇉Bravery in the Face of Adversity Essay Example | GraduateWay.
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The cart before the horse uk government policies, disability and employment
1. The Cart before the Horse: Disability and Employment in the
UK by Keith Armstrong
Abstract: Discusses the Human Rights of disabled people and
Employment Law and current policies in the UK.
Keywords: Disability Studies, Equalities, Human Geography, Human Rights,
Employment Law, Planning, Politics, Policy Studies.
London
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3. The cart before the horse - UK Government policies, Disability and Employment
by Keith Armstrong 1
The Cart before the Horse: UK Government policies, Disability and Employment
by Keith Armstrong
If ever there was a set of ideological policies that have put the cart before the horse and
have gone as far as killing off the horse completely, it is those which this government has
devised. These policies directly and indirectly affect the employment, education and
independent living of disabled people. The policies are not only without merit but are also
highly cynical, taking us back to a Dickensian past. It seems obvious that before
employment can take place there have to be jobs available that unemployed disabled
people can do, and there needs to be adequate and accessible education for disabled
people to allow them to do the jobs in the first place. But the Cameron government have
undermined the chances of disabled people even seeking education and employment in a
number of ways – making transport difficult to access, scrapping the Independent Living
Fund, abolishing sheltered workshops such as Remploy and cutting back support workers
for disabled students.
This government has made it more difficult for disabled people to get educated and find
employment and they stand in a long tradition of governments who have failed to address
the issue; But even amongst this list of inadequacy, the current government sticks out, and
this becomes clear when looking at a brief history of previous government policies on
disability and employment.
In 1944, The Disabled Persons (Employment) Act was introduced, which stated that there
were two reserve jobs for disabled people, one of being a lift operator and another of being
a car park attendant, and that all employers employing more than 300 people had to
employ 3% of the workforce of registered disabled people. Before The Disabled Persons
Act, various charities and the National Employment Office had set up sheltered workshops
which were subsidised either by the State or by charities. The support provided in these
workshops encouraged and allowed disabled people to play an active role in a wider
variety of jobs; such as Florists, small Letterpress runs such as headed notepaper or
business cards, woodwork, furniture manufacture and soft toy making.
The Disabled Persons Act sought to employ 3% of the registered disabled unemployed,
and was rather low considering the population with physical impairments averages out at
15%. It was not implemented anyway. While these procedures turned out to be inadequate
so much so that only one daily newspaper ever reached 3% of its workforce to be
disabled, and there were no successful prosecutions attempted on major employers who
openly flaunted the law. These reforms made only a very small but crucial indent in the
lives of disabled people, however they were well intended. Some sheltered workshops
declined, mainly were supported by charities such as the Woodlarks Trust while Remploy
ran as an arm of the UK government expanded to include the manufacture of manual
wheelchairs and furniture.
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It actually became profitable, though not as profitable as some other industries. In fact
towards the end of Remploy Remploy factories shut up shop – the end of an era for
disabled workers
Writing on the employment of disabled people Colin Barnes, Emeritus Professor of
Disability Studies at the University of Leeds considers that;
]..] paid employment is widely recognised as a major signifier of
adulthood. Indeed, work is central to our society, not simply because
it produces the commodities which are necessary for survival but
also because it has a profound influence on human relationships.
People are categorised through work in terms of class, status and
influence. Apart from income, work provides a sense of identity and
self esteem, opportunities for social contacts outside the family
home, skill development and creativity, as well as a sense of time,
obligation and control. The economic, social and psychological
implications for people who are excluded from the workplace are
clear. The majority of disabled people have been denied access to
the work-place since the industrial revolution. [1]
Something that almost any school teacher can tell is that what is essential for a good
career is good education and training. From the 1940's-1980's many disabled people have
been educated in what is termed "special schools"(segregated schools). Most of these
schools were much smaller than the ordinary schools around them. Perhaps an extreme
example of this was the Ormerod school run by Oxford City Council which had disabled
pupils from 6 to 16 years old and only two classrooms.
Writing in 1992 Barnes stated that;
There is little dispute that disabled people are more likely to be out of
work than their able-bodied contemporaries. In the mid-1960s, for
example, the general unemployment rate was well below 2% whilst
among disabled people it was over 7%. Until the mid-1970s disabled
workers were three times more likely to be out of work than their
able-bodied counter-parts. In the early 1980s the gap narrowed
somewhat not because unemployment among disabled people
declined but because of the rise in unemployment generally. In 1982
it was estimated that the general unemployment rate was 12% and
16% for disabled workers. [2]
Let's face it, unskilled work is usually physically demanding and requires strong mainly
non-disabled people to carry it out. Wheelchair users for example aren't likely to be house
builders or road diggers. Despite the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 coming into force in
2014 there's still plenty of places for publicly funded education which are completely
inaccessible to disabled students in one way or another. Yet the very nature of researching
or writing is done by people sitting on their bottoms, something that people with mobility
impairments are very good at. Even Stephen Hawking, perhaps the most renowned
physicist of our time would not have been able to get his degree if he had his physical
impairment earlier in life. Hawking first studied at Oxford University and then he went to
Cambridge. If he had stayed in Oxford with his amount of impairment, he would have had
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great difficulties (including a certain loss of dignity) trying to access the resources of the
University of Oxford's Astor-physic Lab which was only built in the early 1970's, over three
hundred years after wheelchairs were first used in England. Bicycles and manual
wheelchairs – a short history
While this systematic discrimination in Higher education makes it inaccessible to students
and educators with physical impairments, they are possibly losing their most productive
students.
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Far worse than the education system are places of employment. While many large firms
officially have anti-discrimination policies including local authorities, invariably the rate that
employers are willing to take on disabled applicants is exceedingly low. Subcontractors
providing services for local authorities and government departments are much slower.
In order to get a job you need to get an interview.
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Colin Barnes points out;
Two studies published by the Spastics Society found similar
results in the private sector. Using scientifically approved techniques
similar to those used to measure racial discrimination, research
carried out by Fry (1986) and Graham, Jordan and Lamb (1990)
has established conclusively that employers discriminate directly
against disabled people at the initial point of applying for a job.
Discrimination was measured by examining employers' responses
to two fictitious applications, which differed only in that one purported
to be from a disabled applicant and the other was not. The
applications were sent in response to 152 job applications in the
first study and 197 in the second. The second survey was controlled
in order to account for changes in the employment market during
the period between the two studies, in particular the relative decline
in unemployment generally and the increase in job vacancies. It
showed that the level of discrimination encountered by disabled
people remains virtually unchanged; almost identical results were
achieved. Able-bodied applicants were around 1.5 times more likely
to receive a positive response to an application than were applicants
with an impairment, and a disabled candidate was six times
more likely to receive a negative response. [3]
Of course getting an interview does not guarantee you a job, however it is an
indispensable part of a process of getting paid employment.
Since these surveys were published there have been two Acts of Parliament; The
Disability Discrimination Act of 1995 and The Equality Act of 2010. However, these
employment studies have not being repeated and the effectiveness in the employment
field has not been tested. I doubt if there has been any real change as there has not been
any serious prosecutions of enforcement of UK equality law and the employment needs of
disabled people.
From my own experience of being interviewed for a job in my wheelchair as a Senior
Transport officer for the London Strategic Policy Unit (LSPU) in 1986, advising nine local
authorities on equality, transport and planning issues, in which I was successful, however
on the second day at work I was asked to leave the building, as someone had considered
me to be a fire risk because of my wheelchair.
In 1980, I wrote an article accusing the Fire Brigade of acting like South African Apartheid
police because the excuse that wheelchair users were a fire risk. This resulted in a
meeting of disabled people and the Greater London Fire Brigade. The Fire Brigade were
asked if they could name one incident in their then one hundred years of existence where
the presence of a wheelchair user had caused injury or death during an incident. Despite
their large detailed database they were unable to come up with one incident, although
even one incident within 100 years could not be significant. The Fire Brigade agreed that
anyone claiming that the ban on wheelchair users was due to the Brigade instructions and
that they would be prepared to take legal action.
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As mentioned earlier, at every point the Cameron government has hindered possibilities of
employment for disabled people. Firstly they abolished Remploy, pushing more than 400
people out of gainful employment. Secondly, it should be noted that Boris (Alex) Johnson
halted plans to make all of London Underground accessible, or even the new Cross Rail;
although they have since agreed to make it accessible. Reliable access to transport is
essential for people to seek and get work. Thirdly, the abolition of the Independent Living
Fund, severe cuts in the funding of disabled peoples possibility to live independently, the
high cost of education and the cut backs in support workers for disabled students.
From my own experience the vast majority of disabled people I know are highly
resourceful but testing if they have the stamina for working in a supermarket or any other
ATOS inspired theoretical jobs (essentially the ATOS test in one) is not a good way of
using their skills.
I will repeat what I said at the beginning of this article, rather than a purely cynical way of
hurting people we have to put the cart before the horse – there has to be a massive reform
in the education system for disabled pupils and a real change in attitudes of employers.
These days social services departments and governments base their assessments of
need not on the degree of need but on their budget. Thus fundamentally failing disabled
people. Another example of cart before the horse which means many vulnerable people
will suffer and their lives will be blighted through no fault of their own. Just one small
example, how many newsreaders are there on television or radio who are wheelchair
users? Considering these are activities presented by people sitting down, yet in this
country at this time there are more than half a million full time wheelchair users. Indeed
how many of these people in total are actually employed across any sector of work?
Every disabled person I know (no exceptions) wants to contribute to society in the ways
they are able to – the denial of disabled people in the workplace leads to a great loss of
potential in every area of government and industry.
Even disabled employees at the Department of Work and Pensions have complained
about discrimination at the DWP. The UK government has been accused of “leaving the
disabled behind” in its drive for greater employment, after it emerged that more than half of
the households in which nobody works contain at least one adult with a disability.
To be honest, I can't see how companies associated with the CBI are queueing up to
employ a workforce who are might have ill health problems and therefore would be
unreliable employees on a daily basis.
However, they are likely to be more reliable than the dead people who have been sent
letters by the DWP!
Members of Cameron's cabinet and their advisers know this already but it is just a cynical
exercise to witch-hunt disabled people.
One must point out that disabled people in the UK did not provoke the financial crisis
which was caused by mainly well-off people gambling on the stock exchange or other
financial institutions. In fact, disabled people are often good at problem solving, a talent
much needed if Britain is to get out of the recession.