BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Affirmative Action
- preferential treatment, usually through a quota system, to prevent, or correct, discriminatory employment practices, particularly relating to recruitment and promotion. The term is widely used in the United States, whereas in the United Kingdom, positive discrimination is the preferred term.
Wiktionary Definition for: Affirmative Action
- #A policy or program providing advantages for people of a minority group who are seen to have traditionally been discriminated against, with the aim of creating a more egalitarian society through preferential access to education, employment, health care, social welfare, etc.
Additional Resources
- Do all employers have to have a written affirmative action plan?
- Federal laws that require contractors to have written Affirmative Action Plan, the Rehabilitation Act, and the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act. The requirements for written affirmative action plans apply to contractors or subcontractors The plans consist of statistical analysis of the employer's under utilization of individuals from certain protected...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Affirmative Action Discussion to Be Held at Stanford Law School, March 4.
- Byline: Stanford Law School STANFORD, Calif., March 3 AScribe Newswire -- Stanford Law School today released the following advisory. Affirmative Action Discussion: "Benefit or Burden: Affirmative Action in American Law Schools" PANELISTS TO INCLUDE: ...
- Research articles 2005-03-03
- Affirmative action's uncertain future; proponents of race-conscious admissions firm on belief, but less confident on whether policy could survive a Supreme Court review - Noteworthy News - "Affirmative Action in Higher Education" symposium held at Harvard
- CAMBRIDGE, MASS. Proponents of affirmative action offered compelling arguments for the use of race-conscious admissions at the nation's colleges and universities at a recent symposium at Harvard Law School. However, the same proponents were not as optimistic when predicting the outcome of a Supreme Court review of affirmative action...
- Research articles 2002-03-28
- Affirmative Action Officer
- The Affirmative Action Officer job description template includes the following job summary: This is a responsible professional position to ensure that the Town's Affirmative Action and Diversity Program meets the needs of the community in accordance with federal, state, and local laws. The program is under the direction of the...
- Tools & templates 2007-09-09
- Congress to review affirmative action
- President Clinton has ordered an "intense, urgent review" of all aspects of the federal government's affirmative action programs. Clinton's order comes as a response to a call from the Republicans in Congress to examine the impact of affirmative action on the workforce and whether government-sanctioned affirmative action programs need to...
- Research articles 1995-04-01
- Criterion Introduces Affirmative Action LiquidLINK For PeopleSoft; PeopleSoft Customers Can Simply 'Plug-in' Affirmative Action and Diversity Management
- SAN FRANCISCO--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 4, 1998--Criterion Incorporated has dramatically expanded the capabilities of PeopleSoft's Human Resource Management System with the release of Criterion's Affirmative Action Management System CAAMS LiquidLINK, which links a powerful analytical engine for preparing Affirmative Action plans and diversity checks to PeopleSoft.
- Research articles 1998-11-05
- A gamble for the president; Affirmative action.(Bush wades into affirmative action)
- A difficult choice for the White House, with big political implications ON JANUARY 15th George Bush waded into the most important affirmative-action case for a generation. The case, which the Supreme Court is considering in its current session, concerns three white students who...
- Research articles 2003-01-18
- GM's Smith reaffirms affirmative action focus
- Steve Holsey Michigan Chronicle 08-29-1995 GM's Smith reaffirms affirmative action focus. John F. Smith Jr., president and CEO of General Motors, recently reaffirmed the corporation's position on affirmative action. "Concern is being voiced that the momentum for minorities and women,...
- Research articles 1995-08-29
- Teleconference Interview Tomorrow: October 30 Designated National Take Affirmative Action Day
- News Advisory: -- October 30 Designated National Take Affirmative Action Day-- University of Michigan's Affirmative Action Admissions Under L|Microscope Again What: Teleconference Interview When: Wednesday, October 30, 11 a.m.-12 Noon ET Details:White students who sued the University of Michigan to block its affirmative action policies for law school admissions have...
- Research articles 2002-10-29
- The Latino Coalition: Jim Webb's Statements on Affirmative Action, Immigration Deserve Overwhelming Rejection from Hispanic Americans
- WASHINGTON, June 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Board of Directors of The Latino Coalition TLC today condemned the statements on affirmative action made by Jim Webb, democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Virginia. According to the Richmond Times Dispatch (in an article titled "Webb shifts position on affirmative...
- Research articles 2006-06-08
- How can Good Ol' George oppose affirmative action?
- Watson, Susan Michigan Chronicle 02-25-2003 Next to Clarence Thomas, George W. Bush is the last person in the western world who should criticize affirmative action. When he was just a gleam in his papa's eye, he was the heir to America's...
- Research articles 2003-02-25
- Panel concludes affirmative action still remedies an existing problem.(journalist Roger Wilkins, City Attorney Louise Renne, Senior Vice President of Frito-Lay Roger King, economics professor Glenn Loury, and computer entrepreneur Michelle Dyson)(Panel Di
- A panel at the 1995 Congress of Cities conference dealt with affirmative action and its past, present, and future place in society. The panel, moderated by television personality Bryant Gumbel, discussed both the gains achieved by affirmative action as well as its drawbacks.Establishing an agenda that included clarification of the...
- Research articles 1995-12-11
- California cracks its mortarboards. (abolishing affirmative action at the University of California, July 1995)(Cover Story)
- The University of California Regents voted to do away with affirmative action at the school. The action by the regents, who are mostly Republican loyalists and campaign contributors to Gov Pete Wilson, was against the wishes of the school's president, chancellors, and academic senate. On July 20, the University of...
- Research articles 1995-09-18
- But some are more equal than others: affirmative action.(the system in action in Atlanta, Georgia)
- Affirmative action programs in Atlanta have had mixed results. Black-owned businesses have multiplied and an African American middle class has arisen, yet public-contract set asides and racially-drawn Congressional districts have helped keep the races separate, if somewhat more equal than before. America's affirmative-action programmes, launched to redress discrimination, have...
- Research articles 1995-04-15
- Statement by University of California President Richard C. Atkinson on Today's U.S. Supreme Court Rulings on Affirmative Action.(Brief Article)
- Byline: University of California OAKLAND, Calif., June 23 AScribe Newswire -- University of California President Richard C. Atkinson issued the following statement today regarding the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions on affirmative action. --- Richard C. Atkinson, President, University...
- Research articles 2003-06-23
- Federal Court Upholds Affirmative Action Admissions Policies At University Of Michigan
- A federal judge in Detroit recently upheld the current affirmative action policies in the University of Michigan's undergraduate admissions process, though he ruled an affirmative action plan used there from 19951998 did discriminate against Whites. His action affirms the university's belief in the importance of a racially diverse student...
- Research articles 2001-01-08
- Case study: Affirmative action
- A large independent bank employs about 1200 in multiple branches throughout Southern and Northern California. The bank had been asked to submit their Affirmative Action Plan .The plan and exhibits were submitted just under the deadline. JorgensenHR was hired on Monday to complete the required analyses and assemble the...
- Case studies 2002-01-01
- EO Surveys & Affirmative Action
- The EO survey requires information regarding hires, promotions, terminations, and compensation is sent out to approximately 50,000 federal contractor facilities each year. The survey is intended to engage the federal contractor community in the process of self-analysis, i.e., to review their affirmative action programs and remove any vestiges of discrimination,...
- White papers 2002-07-24
- 20 companies give support to UM in affirmative-action lawsuit.(University of Michigan)(Brief Article)
- Twenty major corporations have come out in support of the University of Michigan's affirmative- action policy. A group that includes Steelcase Inc. of Grand Rapids, Bank One Corp. of Chicago and Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Wash., filed a joint leg Twenty major corporations...
- Research articles 2000-10-23
- Peopleclick Provides OFCCP Compliance Insight at Affirmative Action Conference; Peopleclick Research Institute's Murray Simpson Addresses Steps Employers Should Take to Meet Affirmative Action Compliance
- ST. LOUIS -- Today, at the American Association for Affirmative Action AAAA annual conference, Murray Simpson, Ph.D., an economist and senior consultant for the Peopleclick Research Institute PRI, spoke to attendees about several employment auditing techniques used to analyze employer's selection and pay practices. Simpson also addressed how the Office...
- Research articles 2005-04-15
