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Alpino Company is considering diversity in their policies due to public pressure. The management team at Alpino Company feels that they are much more in the limelight now than when Alpino's operation was restricted to India. As a reputable company, Alpino needs to share with the world what it stands for and steer employees' behavior in the desired direction to show what Alpino is about and what kind of behavior is expected. Currently, one subject particularly has become urgent to communicate about, and that is diversity. Public pressure is building to hear Alpino's stand following an article in the Harvard Business Review, which mentioned several companies, including Alpino, that remain silent on their stand.
Head of HR has identified three specific themes Alpino needs to consider in their stand on diversity: nationality, LGBT, and religion.With its locations in various countries, Alpino employees represent a number of nationalities. Unfortunately, the management team and managers of each location remain homogenetic in their composition: in India, all management positions are filled by people from India, etc.
The management team welcomes a policy that in the future will result in a mixture of nationalities on all management levels. Alpino's management team is also in favor of measures to support LGBT employees but has no idea what the company could do to help. Being a large company, Alpino must have thousands of employees identifying as part of this community, but generally, they are not visible. Therefore there are no issues relating to LGBT employees that need urgent attention out it is assumed some members of this group might run into problems without management being aware.
Regarding religion, the management team already had heard of issues as some Muslim employees wanted to celebrate the Eio alfitr after the yearly fast but were not allowed the two days off they requested due to limited capacity at the specific location. Another issue related to some employees not accepting a female manager at one of the warehouses. After the local HR manager intervening, it became clear that Christian employees objected based on their religious beliefs.
Reference: [email protected],C.Anthony.Major Diversity Themes forAlpino Company.Bradford School of Business, 2019.
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