Purchase Solution

Work-Life and Diversity Challenges

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

Work-Life and Diversity Challenges Executive Summaries

Management has approached you on a number of work-life and diversity challenges. You have been asked to evaluate the situation and provide a recommendation that is legally compliant.

o The company provides a variety of work situations to include flexible schedules and telecommuting. The company has customer service positions available in all work situations: in-house 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., flexible schedule, and telecommuting. An employee who has a customer service position is required to be in-house from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. is now asking to be switched to a telecommuting position because the employee lacks sufficient childcare.

o An employee has worked a steady schedule of 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. for over 2 years. The employee decided to go to school in the evening, checking with his supervisor who said it would be no problem because the employee worked during the day. The plant manager is changing the production plan, which will result in changing shifts. The supervisor who told this employee to attend school now has to place this employee on the evening shift.

o Analyze the issue presented in the scenario, citing any relevant laws or regulations.
o Provide a recommendation and solution that is legally compliant.
o Explain how you would advise the employee of management's decisions.
o Discuss the employee's legal rights and responsibilities.

872 words

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

This explanation provides you a comprehensive argument relating to Work-Life and Diversity Challenges

Solution Preview

One
analyze the issue presented in the scenario, citing any relevant laws or regulations.
Currently, the firm has service positions available for each of the schedules namely 8 am to 5 pm, flexible schedule, and telecommuting. An employee with a customer service position that has an 8 am to 5 pm position want a telecommuting position. Since, the firm already has vacancies in each of the positions; there should normally be no difficulty in accommodating the employee in the telecommuting position. This would provide the employee a suitable schedule that would enable her to take care of her child. If without reason the company refuses her telecommuting situation, then the company can be held liable for unfair treatment or even discrimination.
On the other hand if the company is having problems recruiting person in the 8 am to 5 pm schedule and the transfer of the employee from 8 am to 5 pm to telecommuting can lead to loss of business. The company can temporarily deny permission for the transfer and tell her that the transfer will take place after a replacement for the 8 am to 5 pm position is found. After a candidate for the 8 am to 5 pm position is found, the employee must be transferred to telecommuting position. A bitter legal dispute can arise if the initially the employee ...

Solution provided by:
Hatim Baxamusa, MBA
Education
  • BSc , University of Calcutta
  • MBA, Eastern Institute for Integrated Learning in Management
Recent Feedback
  • "I read your comments, and thank you for this feedback. Do I need to find other studies that applied this methodology Ive used? That's where I'm stuck at."
  • "Thank you kindly sir. "
  • "Excellent and well explained. --Thank you kindly. "
  • "Awesome notes. I appreciate you."
  • "I have the follow-up project and I will assign that to you very soon. "
Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Operations Management

This quiz tests a student's knowledge about Operations Management

Change and Resistance within Organizations

This quiz intended to help students understand change and resistance in organizations

Learning Lean

This quiz will help you understand the basic concepts of Lean.

Team Development Strategies

This quiz will assess your knowledge of team-building processes, learning styles, and leadership methods. Team development is essential to creating and maintaining high performing teams.

Academic Reading and Writing: Critical Thinking

Importance of Critical Thinking

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Workplace Diversity and Schizophrenia

    ., (2004) Diversity in the Workplace: Benefits, Challenges and Solutions; The Multicultural Advantage. http://www.multiculturaladvantage.com/recruit/diversity/Diversity-in-the-Workplace-Benefits-Challenges-Solutions.asp.

  • Sociological Issues In Education

    Exceptional and gifted and talented learners Student diversity Social challenges come to school Student life in school and at home Curriculum standards and testing

  • The Challenges of a Diverse Workforce

    The differences in the way they approach life, work, and relationships must be understood and they must be integrated into the culture of the organization so that a successful atmosphere can be achieved.

  • The challenge of standardizing employee hiring

    The diversity in the domestic market and the country norms and values are discussed.

  • Utilizing Diversity in the Workplace

    Diversity brings about many benefits such as: • Better way to adapt to different ideas and changes. People from different cultures and walks of life bring new ideas and different way of doing things. This opens up many ideas and new concepts.

  • HR Trends and Challenges

    299033 HR Trends and Challenges: Discuss existing trends and challenges in HR management I need help in analyzing the following points: 1. Discuss existing trends and challenges in HR management. 2.

  • Compare and contrast power and politics in organizations

    Another Challenge for today's managers is promoting a work/life balance for employees.

  • diversity

    One of the greatest challenges that Nissan has faced and overcome is to have women at every level of decision making. The diversity officers even solicit foreigners as full-time employees to work at Nissan.

  • Intercultural Management

    According to Loden, diversity represents characteristics in humans that are important to how individuals view themselves and others at work according to the values and opportunities that have been experienced throughout one's life.

  • Challenges and Opportunities of Workplace Diversity

    487030 Challenges and Opportunities of Workplace Diversity What are strategies that companies have implemented or should consider implementing to effectively address the challenges and opportunities of workplace diversity?

View More Related Solutions