Positive steps to enhance the diversity of some group, often to remedy the cumulative effect of subtle as well as gross expressions of prejudice. When numerical goals are set, they are set according to the group's representation in the applicant pool rather than the group's representation in the general population. For example, a medical school with an affirmative action program would seek to admit members of an underrepresented group in proportion to their representation in the population of those who had completed pre-medical requirements and wished to attend medical school. Affirmative action should be distinguished from reparations.
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Those positive steps taken by an employer to ensure the provision of equal employment opportunity. Affirmative action regulations cover minority persons, women, persons with disabilities, Vietnam-era veterans, and special disabled veterans.
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Proactive action to accomplish the purposes of a program which is designed to increase the employment opportunities of certain groups, which may involve goals, timetables, or specifically outlined steps to be undertaken to assure that objectives are reached. The Americans with Disabilities Act does not mandate affirmative action for persons with disabilities, but does require that covered entities ensure nondiscrimination. Title 5, Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act does require that affirmative action be taken in employment of persons with disabilities by Federal contractors.
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A set of proactive measures to counteract the effects of past and present discrimination, intended or unintended, in employment and program delivery. The groups protected by a series of federal legislation include: women, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Native Americans, Vietnam era veterans, special disabled veterans, and individuals with disabilities.
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Proactive action to accomplish the purposes of a program which is designed to increase the employment opportunities of certain groups, which may involve goals, timetables, or specifically outlined steps to be undertaken to assure that objectives are reached. The Americans with Disabilities Act does not mandate affirmative action for persons with disabilities, but does require that covered entities ensure nondiscrimination. Title 5, Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act does require that affirmative action be taken in employment of persons with disabilities by Federal contractors. Topic areas:Accountability and Evaluation, Operations Management and Leadership
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Measures taken to correct the effects of past discrimination in hiring and promotion
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A policy seeking to compensate victims of previous racial and sexual discrimination, to remedy lingering effects of such discrimination, or to combat ongoing institutionalized and unintentional discriminatory practices by providing reverse preferences favoring members of classes previously disadvantaged.
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Action taken by a government or private institution to make up for past discrimination in education, work, or promotion on the basis of gender, race, ethnic origin, religion, or disability.
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any action intended to correct effects of past discrimination, to eliminate present discrimination, or to prevent discrimination for the future.
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A program that became law with the passage of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972, whereby employers, labor unions, employment agencies, and labor management apprenticeship programs must actively seek to eliminate minorities. Although Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 had outlawed future discriminations in employment practices, it had done nothing to redress already existing imbalances. The 1972 law, later strengthened by executive orders, requires employers to draw up a detailed written plan for equalizing economic salaries, training programs, fringe benefits and other conditions of employment. These plans included numerical goals and timetables for achieving such changes.
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*. Positive steps to enhance the diversity of some group, often to remedy the cumulative effect of subtle as well as gross expressions of prejudice. When numerical goals are set, they are set according to the group's representation in the applicant pool rather than the group's representation in the general population. For example, a medical school with an affirmative action program would seek to admit members of an underrepresented group in proportion to their representation in the population of those who had completed pre-medical requirements and wished to attend medical school. Affirmative action should be distinguished from reparations.
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Methods used to achieve the objectives of the military equal opportunity program. Processes, activities, and systems designed to prevent, identify, and eliminate unlawful discriminatory treatment as it affects the recruitment, training, assignment, utilization, promotion, and retention of military personnel.
www.hill.af.mil/me/TermsDefinitions.htm
United States regulations require employers to prepare affirmative action plans that are intended to provide equal employment representation within their workforce, with respect to ethnicity, gender and age.
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actions by employers to seek out actively minorities and women for jobs and to provide them with training and other opportunities for promotion
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This federal law was designed to end discrimination against minorities, and it requires that minority students and job applicants receive the same opportunities as other students and job applicants. The statements declaring businesses to be equal opportunity employers and schools to provide equal opportunity education, comply with affirmative action.
www.usoe.k12.ut.us/ate/wbl/Manual/Glossary.htm
Results-oriented actions a contractor (such as the University), by virtue of its federal contracts, must take to ensure Equal Employment Opportunity.
baowww.uoregon.edu/glossary.htm
affirmative action refers to active efforts to locate and hire members of underrepresented groups.
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The use of racial, ethnic or linguistic preferences in recruitment to jobs, hiring, admissions and contracting. This positive discrimination favours those who tend to (or could) suffer from discrimination.
www.eurocontrol.int/eatmp/glossary/terms/terms-01.htm
A program designed to increase the participation rates of targeted groups.
www.hr.murdoch.edu.au/policy/PZ0003.html
Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs, promotions, and educational opportunities. (See 233, 371)
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the effort made by an employer to increase employment opportunities for people who belong to a visible minority who are not adequately represented in the firm's labour force. In the U.S., legislation has mandated that certain groups, such as Afro-Americans, will receive this protection in the workplace.
courses.confederationc.on.ca/ge012/global/Glossary/glossary.htm
the steps taken by companies to eliminate the barriers of discrimination that prevent equal opportunity employment to all minorities.
www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/curr_content/paasurvey/entre/Content/glos1.htm
(p. 352) Employment activities designed to "right past wrongs" by increasing opportunities for minorities and women.
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Government programs intended to assure minorities of equal hiring, educational, and other admission opportunities. Introduced in the United States by President Johnson under the Civil Rights Act, signed on July 02nd, 1964. First enforced on September 24th, 1965 under Executive Order 11246…
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program in areas such as employment and education to provide more opportunities for members of groups that faced discrimination in the past
www.ic.sunysb.edu/Stu/mmunzer/glossary.html
a policy designed to redress past discrimination against women and minority groups through measures to improve their economic and educational opportunities; "affirmative action has been extremely controversial and was challenged in 1978 in the Bakke decision"
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