Question 1:

A) Discuss how an organization’s culture can impact policies and practices related to diversity and multiculturalism.

• How can HR influence organizational culture to support diversity and multiculturalism?
• Discuss at least three policies or practices that HR can propose.
• How can HR work with leaders to implement these policies or practices?

B) Evaluate and discuss the diversity practices and policies of your own organization or one you have worked for in the past.How does the organizational culture influence diversity and multiculturalism? Provide specific examples, but do not name the organization.

Question 2:

Consider the difference between the concepts of diversity and multiculturalism. How would you determine the difference between an organization focused on compliance versus one that promoted multiculturalism? What evidence would you be looking for and why? Discuss at least four ideas.

Question 3:

A) Why is retention such a major focus for human resource managers? How does focusing on retention add strategic value to the organization?

B) How would you go about developing an employee retention program for your organization?

• Be specific in terms of what steps you would you take.
• What might be your biggest challenge and why?
• What type of metrics would you need to obtain? Discuss at least two. Why did you select these metrics?

Question 4:

A) Assume you are the HR manager of a large organization tasked with evaluating employee retention.

• What type of metrics would you want to look at? Discuss your rationale.
• How would you obtain these metrics?

B) Discuss the relationship between an organization’s total rewards strategy and retention. As a human resource manager, how would you evaluate your total rewards program to make sure it was having a positive impact on employee retention?