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MAN105 Introduction to Management Page 1
CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY
College of Business and Law
Assignment 2: Diversity Essay
Due Date: Week 7, Sunday midnight (Darwin time)
Value % 30%
Length: 1,500 – 2,000 words (excluding title page and reference list)
Learning outcomes: 1, 2, 3, 4
Preparation:  Participate in lectures and tutorial in week 1 to week 7.
 Engage with learning activities, especially discussions of diversity issues.
 Start analysing and working on your assignment early in the semester
and clarify any question you may have with your lecturer.
 Research relevant information and sources to address the assignment
task.
Presentation:  Essay-style written assignment that should be presented in a
professional way.
 Add a title page with your student information (name, student number,
study location) and the unit information (unit code and name, lecturer
name, assignment number and title).
 Formatting suggestion: font style Cali
i or Arial, font size 12, 1.5 line
spacing, justified text, margins 2.5cm each, no indents, subheadings are
permitted but should not be numbered, add page numbers.
Task Details
Task In Australia, like in most developed countries, the topic of diversity has
increasingly been discussed in the context of society, communities, and
organisations. Managers and employees are being urged to recognise and
value diversity, and many are pursuing active programs to improve the
workplace environment for diversity. However, inequalities and
challenges still exist for some groups within the workforce.
In this assessment, you have the opportunity to explore a specific diversity
issue (gender) and learn more about how organisations and managers can
improve equalities within the work environment. Within your assignment,
please address the four points/questions below. You should start your
discussion with the main diversity issues that we discussed in class, then
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focus your attention on gender diversity issues, followed by a discussion
of management approaches, and use an Australian company as an
example to discuss how they address gender diversity by using
information available via their website. Such ‘upside down’ pyramid
approach from a
oad topic discussion to a more specific, is a common
approach within essays as it provides a structure and good flow for the
eader.
 What are the main diversity issues
that still exists within workplaces?
 What are the issues around gender
diversity in organisations or industry
sectors?
 How can organisations and managers
address such issues in order to
provide more equal work
environments?
 Identify an Australian company that
provides diversity information on
their website and discuss how this
company addresses gender diversity.
Specifics on essay writing
As this is an academic essay, you are required to research and use
appropriate academic journal articles (at least six) for your discussion and
support your text with in-text citations and a reference list. You can use
additional credible non-academic sources (e.g. government websites,
diversity reports) for your discussion. Make sure all sources are relevant
and cu
ent (preferably within the last five years; however, seminal work
can be older). The general structure of an essay includes an introduction
(what is the essay about; what can the reader expect), the main body
(your discussion of the essay task), and a conclusion (what did the essay
try to discuss; what were the main aspects/findings). The reference list
should follow on a new page, formatted in the CDU Harvard Referencing
style.
Assessment criteria Main diversity issues (10%)
Identified and discussed the main diversity issues that exist in work
environments based on relevant academic literature and possible
additional credible non-academic resources.
Diversity issues
Gender diversity issues
Management approaches
Company example
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Gender diversity issues (25%)
Identified and discussed specific gender diversity issues within the
workplace based on relevant academic literature and possible additional
credible non-academic resources.
Management approaches (25%)
Identified and discussed cu
ent management approaches with regards to
diversity based on relevant academic literature and possible additional
credible non-academic resources.
Company example (20%)
Researched an existing Australian company and discussed their
management approaches for gender diversity based on information via
the company’s website.
Written essay (10%)
Written and presented in a professional way with co
ect spelling and
grammar. Structure and flow supports the discussion and readability.
Referencing (10%)
Used appropriate academic journal articles and possible additional
credible non-academic resources and referenced co
ectly (CDU Harvard
Referencing style) in-text and in the reference list.
Penalties Late Submission
Late assignments will lose 5% of the available marks each day (or part
thereof).
Plagiarism
You are to identify the sources of any ideas and words in your assignment
that are not yours. Unattributed materials may not be included in the
consideration of your assignment and serious cases of academic
misconduct will be handled in accordance with the Student Complaints
Management Process.

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Assignment Number: ASSIGNMENT 2
Title: DIVERSITY ESSAY
Table of Contents
Introduction	3
Diversity issues existing in the workplace	3
Issues associated with gender diversity in the workplace	4
Providing an equal working environment	5
Gender diversity implemented by Telstra	6
Conclusion	6
References	7
Introduction
In the modern context of the business environment, globalisation has been seen to play an important role. Because of globalisation, companies tend to depend on one another at the times of their crisis. The globalisation has paved the way for the development of diversity within or across the organisations. In other words, the concept of diversity has been essential and influential since the context of the development of globalisation. Diversity in a broader context refers to a number of different attributes. Diversity refers to the equality and heterogeneity within the business perspectives (Sila, Gonzalez & Hagendorff, 2016). 
Since the businesses rely on the input and the management of the employees or the workforce, it is important for the organisations to establish diversity in their operational context. Diversity in terms of gender, ethnicity of the individuals or employees, race and religion of the employees, culture and creed of the employees as well as the skills of the employees are evident in the organisations. In this assignment, the importance of gender diversity and their impacts on business organisations have been elaborated. Different aspects including the issues related to gender diversity, the positive impacts of gender diversity within the workplace and the evaluation of the organisation serving gender equality have also been highlighted in this assignment. 
Diversity issues existing in the workplace
A number of diversity issues continue to exist within the organisational perspectives. Diversity in terms of religion has been one of the major forms of antiquities that still continue to exist within the organisational perspectives. It is observed that the people of different religion continue to work together within a single team in a given organisation (Noland, Moran & Kotschwar, 2016). Because of it, the minor number of team members, belonging to a particular religion, finds it difficult to cope up with the team members that belong to the majority religion. Under these circumstances, the overall efficiency of the team and the production of the team as a whole, continue to decrease substantially. 
Ethnic and cultural differences are one of the major forms of diversity issues that continue to exist within the workplace. These are commonly noted while working together within a team. Since the different team members have different cultural outlooks and perspectives, diversity is not noted within the context of the organisation. People belonging to the different ethnic background working in a team are also one of the major diversity issues that are commonly noted within the workplace (Perryman, Fernando & Tripathy, 2016). 
Diversity in the form of gender has been one of the leading forms of classification existing within the workplace. This thereby highlights one of the major issues of promoting diversity in the workplace. Respect and belief are two of the major parameters that often hinder the overall development of diversity within the workplace. Another important form of diversity includes individuals with physical and mental disabilities working within the workplace (Marinova,

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