Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Case Study
Description
Access the federal government’s website. Read about the laws enforced by the EEOC.
Review the following case study:
Company X is a rapidly growing automobile sensor-manufacturing firm headquartered in small-town Gaylesburg, Ohio. Over the last two decades, the company has progressed from a small, family-owned and operated company with regional prominence to a leading national firm. For over two decades, the company thrived with the support of a hometown talent pool that was 99% Caucasian; 1% African American, and 98% male; 2% female in composition. When the founder passed leadership on to his eldest son, the new CEO actualized his vision to expand the company and increase its market share. As a result, the company struggled with the development of a more culturally diverse workforce.
Presently, the CEO wants to preserve the company’s family culture in the face of large-scale growth and movement into several urban
hubs. The CEO understands that his management team and floor supervisors must be prepared to manage the increased cultural diversity, including acting ethically and adhering to EEOC statutes. He has charged the management team with the task of developing strategies that will preserve the corporation’s family culture in its various locations while assuring that it upholds all EEOC standards.
Imagine you are an Organizational Development Consultant charged with making recommendations on a series of internal workplace policies, procedures, activities, and rituals that could positively affect organizational culture and ensure compliance with EEOC principles or something instead. Select one of the following topics for your assignment:
Racial discrimination
Age discrimination
Pregnancy discrimination
Equal pay discrimination
Disability discrimination
The EEOC is a federal administrative agency created by Congress in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to administer and enforce Title VII of that statute. The EEOC also administers and enforces the ADA, ADEA, and the Equal Pay Act of 196363 and provides oversight and coordination of all federal regulations, policies, and practices affecting equal employment opportunity.
The EEOC consists of five commissioners and a general counsel, all appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. The president designates the chairman, who acts as chief executive officer of the commission. All commissioners serve for 5-year, staggered terms. The commissioners make EEOC policy, whereas the general counsel supervises equal employment opportunity litigation brought on behalf of complainants.
EEOC staff process and investigate complaints of employment discrimination against private and public entities. In most instances, charges must be filed with the EEOC within 180 days of the alleged employment discrimination (extended to 300 days if the state has an antidiscrimination agency). If the EEOC investigation of a charge concludes that there is reasonable cause that actionable employment discrimination occurred, it will initiate conciliation procedures to try to resolve the charge to the reasonable satisfaction of the complainant at this lowest level of adjudication. That failing, the EEOC may sue the respondent in federal court on the alleged victim’s behalf. (Only the Department of Justice may bring suit against a state or local governmental entity, however.) If the EEOC does not file a lawsuit, an aggrieved private party may file a private lawsuit against an offender within 90 days of dismissal of the case by the EEOC.6
Important information for writing discussion questions and participation
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I strongly encourage that you do not wait until the very last minute to complete your assignments. Your assignments in weeks 4 and 5 require early planning as you would need to present a teaching plan and interview a community health provider. I advise you look at the requirements for these assignments at the beginning of the course and plan accordingly. I have posted the YouTube link that explains all the class assignments in detail. It is required that you watch this 32-minute video as the assignments from week 3 through 5 require that you follow the instructions to the letter to succeed. Failure to complete these assignments according to instructions might lead to a zero. After watching the video, please schedule a one-on-one with me to discuss your topic for your project by the second week of class. Use this link to schedule a 15-minute session. Please, call me at the time of your appointment on my number. Please note that I will NOT call you.
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If you think you would be needing accommodations due to any reasons, please contact the appropriate department to request accommodations.
Plagiarism is highly prohibited. Please ensure you are citing your sources correctly using APA 7th edition. All assignments including discussion posts should be formatted in APA with the appropriate spacing, font, margin, and indents. Any papers not well formatted would be returned back to you, hence, I advise you review APA formatting style. I have attached a sample paper in APA format and will also post sample discussion responses in subsequent announcements.
Your initial discussion post should be a minimum of 200 words and response posts should be a minimum of 150 words. Be advised that I grade based on quality and not necessarily the number of words you post. A minimum of TWO references should be used for your initial post. For your response post, you do not need references as personal experiences would count as response posts. If you however cite anything from the literature for your response post, it is required that you cite your reference. You should include a minimum of THREE references for papers in this course. Please note that references should be no more than 5 years old except recommended as a resource for the class. Furthermore, for each discussion board question, you need ONE initial substantive response and TWO substantive responses to either your classmates or your instructor for a total of THREE responses. There are TWO discussion questions each week, hence, you need a total minimum of SIX discussion posts for each week. I usually post a discussion question each week. You could also respond to these as it would count towards your required SIX discussion posts for the week.
I understand this is a lot of information to cover in 5 weeks, however, the Bible says in Philippians 4:13 that we can do all things through Christ that strengthens us. Even in times like this, we are encouraged by God’s word that we have that ability in us to succeed with His strength. I pray that each and every one of you receives strength for this course and life generally as we navigate through this pandemic that is shaking our world today. Relax and enjoy the course!
Hi Class,
Please read through the following information on writing a Discussion question response and participation posts.
Contact me if you have any questions.
Important information on Writing a Discussion Question
- Your response needs to be a minimum of 150 words (not including your list of references)
- There needs to be at least TWO references with ONE being a peer reviewed professional journal article.
- Include in-text citations in your response
- Do not include quotes—instead summarize and paraphrase the information
- Follow APA-7th edition
- Points will be deducted if the above is not followed
Participation –replies to your classmates or instructor
- A minimum of 6 responses per week, on at least 3 days of the week.
- Each response needs at least ONE reference with citations—best if it is a peer reviewed journal article
- Each response needs to be at least 75 words in length (does not include your list of references)
- Responses need to be substantive by bringing information to the discussion or further enhance the discussion. Responses of “I agree” or “great post” does not count for the word count.
- Follow APA 7th edition
- Points will be deducted if the above is not followed
- Remember to use and follow APA-7th edition for all weekly assignments, discussion questions, and participation points.
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