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Diversity Workplace Religio Annotated Bibliography Borstorff, P., Essay

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Topic:Workplace Diversity

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Diversity Workplace religio

Annotated Bibliography

Borstorff, P., Arlington, K. (2010). The Perils of Religious Accommodation: Employees' Perceptions. Proceedings of the Academy of Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Issues, 14 (1), 1-6.

The Perils of Religious Accommodation: Employees' Perceptions attempts to analyze, and to a certain degree to quantify, the effectiveness of employers in the workplace in their allowance for differences in faith in terms of religious observance for their employees. The primary methodology for this particular source was to conduct a voluntary, confidential online survey of 80 people with gainful employment to determine their opinions about the effectiveness of their varying employers' work-related policies regarding religion. Significantly, the majority of those surveyed (83%) were of Christian faith. Findings revealed that employers are not doing enough to accommodate for the differences in religion found in a country (U.S.A) with increasing levels of immigration and religious diversity. Approximately half of the respondents indicated that their companies had a clear means of expressing their policies on diversity, while other responses which illustrated a similar dubiousness of workplace diversity policy consisted of issues of around food, holidays, and attire.

Strauss, J.P., Sawyerr, O.O. (2009). Religiosity and Attitudes Towards Diversity: A Potential Workplace Conflict? Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 39 (11) 2626-2650.

The most important factor for properly comprehending Religiosity and Attitudes Towards Diversity: A Potential Workplace Conflict? is the proper definition of a few key social and ecclesiastical concepts which were researched and applied towards workplace interaction in a voluntary, two-week long…


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bibliography include discerning exactly which information is important enough to be included in the summary, and which of it should be overlooked. It is also difficult to include concepts without directly quoting or including a reference to the source. However, it should be noted that the value in such bibliographies is that they offer succinct summaries of information which correlates to a larger research project. The greatest challenge in undertaking such an assignment, however, is in the condensing of an entire journal article's worth of information, outlooks, recommendations and study methods, into a single paragraph.

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