In Part 3 of the Personnel Policies and Procedures Manual, your team will be working on the policies regarding affirmative action, racial and religious discrimination, and religious accommodations. You are in the process of creating an Affirmative Action Plan and Religious Accommodation and Racial and Religious Discrimination Policy for your employees.
Your Affirmative Action Plan and Religious Accommodation and Racial and Religious Discrimination Policy must include the following:
- A description of how your business plans to reach out to underrepresented groups
- A description of how your business plans on recruiting groups that it has not attempted to recruit in the past
- A description of mentoring, management training, and developing traditionally excluded groups
- Plans of your business to recruit underrepresented groups to work for your business
- A description of training and the training frequency that you will provide to staff on racial discrimination
- Rules prohibiting discrimination based on race or color
- A description of training and the training frequency that your company will provide to staff on religious discrimination
- Training provided to staff regarding affirmative action
- A description of workplace policies and practices related to diversity
- Inappropriate or exclusionary workplace behaviors toward each other and disciplinary procedure for behavior involving racial discrimination
- Placement goals involving diversity and inclusion
- Holidays or activities encouraging diversity and inclusion
- Philanthropy goals and contractor diversity goals
- Religious accommodation policy discussing undue hardship
- Procedure for supervisors responding to employee requests for religious accommodation
- Procedure for employees requesting religious accommodation
- Guidelines for accommodation of religious holidays
- Employee reasonable accommodation policy and procedure
Deliverable Requirements
Your Affirmative Action Plan and Religious Accommodation and Racial and Religious Discrimination Policy must be at least 5 pages in length. Be sure to cite sources using APA properly; include references and in-text citations. The title and reference pages do not count as part of the 5 pages.
Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following:
- Title page: Remember the running head. The title should be in all capitals.
- Length: 5 pages minimum
- Body: This begins on the page following the title page and must be double-spaced (be careful not to triple- or quadruple-space between paragraphs). The typeface should be 12-pt. Times Roman or 12-pt. Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics, except as required for APA-level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your paper for this assignment is 5 pages. In-body academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.
- Reference page: References that align with your in-body academic sources are listed on the final page of your paper. The references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hanging indent, italics, and uppercase and lowercase usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the Reference page is not a bibliography but a further listing of the abbreviated in-body citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-body citation.
Please submit your assignment.