Age Diversity (Google Inc.)

Topic

Age Diversity (Google Inc.)

Instructions

You and your team members are to undertake research, prepare and present both an oral and written
report on one of the diversity dimensions covered in this course, i.e.:

  • Gender (Presentation Week 7, Report Week 8)
  • Work-Life/Work-Family Balance (Presentation Week 7, Report Week 8)
  • Cultural Diversity (Presentation Week 8, Report Week 9)
  • Employing Australian Indigenous Workers (Presentation Week 9, Report Week 10)
  • Religious/Ethnic Diversity (Presentation Week 10, Report Week 11)
  • Workers with a Disability(Presentation Week 11, Report Week 12)
  • Sexual and Gender Identity (Presentation Week 11, Report Week 12)
  • Age Diversity (Presentation Week 12, Report Week 13)

Group Presentation

Your team are a handful of HR staff that have been assigned the task of advising the Board of a Company/Organisation on how and why they should improve its workforce diversity. Your team will
select an existing company/organization of your choice in consultation with the lecturer.
It is often useful if the team has some experience with the company/organization or the industry the
selected company is from. Your team will also select one particular diversity dimension that will be
the focus of the presentation and report.
The presentation shall be developed as a social intrapreneur’s (social innovation within a company) sales pitch to the Board. It shall be no longer than 15-20 minutes and must include what the social innovation is (Improve diversity), why this is important and also what are the benefits to the organization of this innovation.

You can use any multimedia technology available for the presentation which will take place the week after the diversity dimension selected has been presented. Please do research in the area of understanding what a sales pitch is and how to make one. Bearing in mind that this should be a sales pitch and therefore the most important would be to convince the Board that there are several benefits to improving the diversity with regards to the selected diversity dimension.
The presentation should contain the following:

  • Title of the company, and team members
  • Brief description of company, industry and current diversity statistics for company/industry (if available). Compared to actual diversity in Australia (ABS Statistics).
  • Describe the diversity problem or opportunity you wish to solve.
  • Value proposition (Business case). How will improving the company/organization diversity lead to economic/social/reputational/legal benefits or reduced problems for the company/organisation.
  • Explain the economic advantages of improving diversity
  • How will you do it? Describe briefly or in table form what actions need to be taken within the company/organization. (Interventions could include actions such as improved procedures with regards to recruitment, retaining, training staff and other support for a diverse workforce.
  • Explain what will be major challenges for the company/organization and the employees.
  • Analyse what may be the consequences for NOT improving diversity
  • How will the actions be organized, who will be in charge of making the changes?
  • Reference list

Answer preview

  • A multinational company specializing in internet related products and services.
  • Headquarters at Mountain View, California at the Googleplex.
  • The company has grown to become one of the largest organizations in the world.
  • Core product is the search engine; Google search

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