1001EHR Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Blue-Collar Worker, Population Ageing, International Labour Organization
30 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Week 10 Work and Employability Lecture Notes
Workplace Diversity and Inclusion
Key terms:
• Equity: the premise that all persons have the right to benefit fairly, irrespective of
gender, race, socioeconomic background, disability and so on
• Discrimination: occurs where members of one group of people are denied
opportunities to develop their capabilities and are denied equal rewards for equal
capabilities
• Equal opportunity: recognizes historic and ongoing systemic discrimination in a
partiular soiet… seeks to eliminate this and to provide some way forward for
groups identified as having suffered from discrimination and disadvantage
• Diversity: recognizes the values the variety of qualities possessed by people within
an organization and uses these for business advantage- but this idea is debated
Inequality in the labour market
1. Rate of unemployment/ unemployment
o Unemployment- indigenous 17.2%, Non-indigenous 5.5% (ABS, 2011)
2. Pay
o 18% pay difference between males and females (even sport prize money is
different- Wimbledon argument)
3. Segmentation
o Industry- differences between industries (mining and hospitality)
o Occupational- horizontal (gender type occupations), Vertical (glass ceiling, status
and top positions- 17.3% CEOs i Australia, ol 5% of Worlds Largest
Corporations
4. Underemployment and exclusion
o Youth unemployment 15% 2014 (3.1% in 1978)
o Women and older workers
Discrimination can occur by taking action against someone for their:
• Sec/gender
• Race/ nationality (Sydney Café, international students 2014)
• Disability
• Marital status
• Parental status
• Pregnancy (1 in 2 experience some form of discrimination 2014)
• Religious beliefs and activities
• Political beliefs and activities
• Physical appearance
• Trade union membership
• Age (Virgin Blue 2007, Sydney bus driver, 2011)
• Sexual preference
• Transgender/ trans- sexuality
find more resources at oneclass.com
find more resources at oneclass.com
Discrimination
• Discrimination in all aspects of employment is prohibited, including:
o Recruitment and selection
o Terms and conditions of employment
o Training and development
o Promotion and transfer
o Termination
• Leads to:
o Low staff morale
o High staff turnover
o Lower productivity
o High absenteeism
o Custoers, eploees ad shareholder o epet ad orgaizatios
workforce should reflect customer or client base and their own values, which
means there is also a need for a business case of diversity
find more resources at oneclass.com
find more resources at oneclass.com
Document Summary
Inequality in the labour market: rate of unemployment/ unemployment, unemployment- indigenous 17. 2%, non-indigenous 5. 5% (abs, 2011, pay, 18% pay difference between males and females (even sport prize money is different- wimbledon argument, segmentation. Industry- differences between industries (mining and hospitality: occupational- horizontal (gender type occupations), vertical (glass ceiling, status and top positions- 17. 3% ceo(cid:859)s i(cid:374) australia, o(cid:374)l(cid:455) 5% of world(cid:859)s largest. Corporations: underemployment and exclusion, youth unemployment 15% 2014 (3. 1% in 1978, women and older workers. International regulation: un declaration of human rights, 1948, right to free choice of employment. International labour organization (ilo) employment and occupation convention, Wages and gender pay gap: the national gender pay gap is currently 17. 1% and has hovered between 15% and. 18% for the past two decades: despite equalising in education and qualifications, australian women graduates earn. Other factors to consider: first peoples population generally disadvantaged. Immigrants traditio(cid:374)all(cid:455) (cid:858)(cid:271)lue (cid:272)ollar(cid:859) (cid:271)ut i(cid:374)(cid:272)reasi(cid:374)gl(cid:455) professio(cid:374)al.
