MGT 467 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Sex Segregation, Glass Ceiling
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Several common factors can be used to assess what the key diversity issues are in different locales. Eradicating discrimination would benefit individuals, organizations, the economy, and society. Diversity can provide benefits related to cost, resource acquisition, marketing, creativity, problem solving, and system flexibility. Research from various disciplines attest to women"s low occupational status worldwide there are 1. 2 billion women workers in the world. Women are participating in the workforce at higher rates than ever before. Sex discrimination and harassment, sex segregation, wage inequity, and the glass ceiling are common problems faced around the world. Industrial societies, women occupy around 10% of highest positions. Workers with disabilities around the world face issues with: 600 million people worldwide have disabilities and 386 million of them are of working age. Religions that view homosexuality as being particularly abhorrent support extreme means to curb homosexual behavior. An organizations success or failure depends on ability to.
