Positive Gender Diversity Management from Deloitte and Johnson & Johnson

You will research and prepare a written analysis of an issue, of your choice, related to managing diversity. Whichever topic you write about, you must approach the topic from a management perspective. In your paper, you should include your identification and analysis of the central issues related to your topic, your evaluation of the alternative perspectives related to your topic, and a description of your current stance on the issue you have chosen. There are a number of approaches you might take in choosing a topic. You might write about the actions of a particular company. For example, several firms have come under criticism for the way that they have handled diversity issues within their organizations. There are also many companies that have reputations or have received favorable publicity for their diversity efforts. In writing your paper, it is important for you to include your own opinions (supported by references) regarding the topic you have chosen. As a rule of thumb, I expect that you will devote about one third of your paper to your critical analysis of the issue you choose. In other words, don’t just write 5 pages that only describe the actions of a firm or other organization/ profession/government without critically assessing those actions.

The analysis must be a full 5 pages in length (no more and no less) and must be single-spaced (not 1.15, which is the default setting for recent versions of Word) and printed using Times New Roman, size 12 font, with 1.25 inch margins on the side and 1 inch margins on the top and bottom (Office 2003 default in Margin settings in Page Layout on the Word header). Also, please do not use any space saving techniques such as adding extra space between paragraphs (the first sentence of each paragraph should be indented), don’t use bulleted or numbered items, no use of subtitles, footnotes, diagrams, tables, or including your name/paper title at the top of any of the five pages. You must use at least four references for the paper; in preparing the paper you should avoid using more than three direct quotes and no quote should be longer than one or two sentences

Prior to grading your paper and your case study, I will submit them to Turnitin, a plagiarism software package.