Your Task

The Australian HR Institute (AHRI) is a professional organisation designed to be a guardian of professional excellence, provides a number of professional certificates and promotes sustainable business models. The AHRI also hosts the annual awards for excellence in Human Resources including the Workplace Diversity Awards. For this assessment, students will choose a company (the word ‘company’ is used here broadly and can stand for a company, a business or an institution) from the winners from the last three years of the Australian HR Institute (AHRI) diversity-related awards and produce a 5–7-minute video and accompanying PowerPoint presentation outlining and analysing the company’s diversity- related strategies.

Assessment Description

The link below is where students can find more information about the AHRI Diversity and Inclusion Awards

Students must choose one company from the Workplace Diversity Awards from the last 3 years. For this assessment, students are to address the following questions:

1.     Company context and choice of a diversity group.

In this first section, students should provide a short overview of the company. As part of this overview, students should explain why this particular diversity group was identified as the company’s focus and how it connects with theories discussed in Weeks 10-12.

2.     Details a minimum of two (2) specific initiatives

Students should detail two initiatives implemented by the company to address the disadvantages faced by their nominated group.

3.     Analysis of the overall company’s approach to their diversity category

In this last section, students are to explain how the company was successful in addressing the organisational and leadership related diversity challenges they faced.