Question

Perform an Internet search to find a specific diversity policy for an organization and answer the following questions:

What is the name of the organization?

What is the policy?

What are at least two criteria within the policy used to determine EEO and Affirmative Action compliance?

From what you know of the organization, do you believe they follow this policy in reality?

Answer 1

Name of the Company: Google Inc.

Diversity Policy at Google: Google vouches for treating everyone with equality. The workforce of the company is quite diverse. This diversity propagates the out of box thinking in the company. The company gives sufficient autonomy and empowerment to the employees so that they can update their skills and come up with interesting ideas and concepts to work on.

Criteria within the policy to determine EEO and Affirmative action compliance

• Percentage of female hires in the company is 33.2%, which has increased over the years. However the number of females in the leadership have decreased by 3%. As females are getting hired by the company and are given opportunities to move up the corporate ladder, we can say that the policy is EEO compliant.
• The company supports employees from diverse backgrounds. There is substantial representation of Asian employees, Black employees as well as Latinx employees. The company is working hard to increase the representation of these employees. This shows the diversity policy of the company is Affirmative action compliant.

The credibility of these claims: Various studies have been conducted to check the diversity adherence of the most famous and established companies like Google, Facebook, Apple, etc. The diversity ratio of these companies are a part of various studies. Hence the claims of the company rae quite credible.

Reference:

• Diversity report at Google 2018
• The impact of workplace diversity on organizations by P Dike