Reducing gender inequalities in the workplace will enhance organizational decision-making in the workplace.
Your final assignment will be a Position Paper. This is a three-step exercise:1. Take an initial position based on one or more of the 5 themes from the class. The position should read as a thesis and should be at most one or two sentences long. For example, a thesis may read “Corporations are the primary cause of de facto inequality” or “Corporations reduce inequality”. It is not necessary that you be fully convinced of this initial thesis, but you should believe it has merit and is worth investigating. Pursue a topic that interests you. The only requirement is that it be related to the themes of the course.2. Explore both dissenting and supportive elements of your initial position through:Research. Conduct searches of the local and international media and social media, collect data from government and non-governmental agencies (e.g., Statistics Canada, think tanks), consult academic journal articles and books, interview stakeholders, etc. (not all these methods need be used, but data must come from a variety of sources). The research paper must take into account all evidence at hand, including (crucially) that which does not support the original position.3. Write a 2,500 – 3,000-word reflective essay on how your initial position has changed and evolved as you pursued research above to support your overarching arguments about the social context of business. You must use the original research to support your claims. Ultimately, the reflective essay will either endorse, refute, or accept with qualifications the original position. The two critical elements will be to explain how the research resulted in an evolution of the original position. You must include an annotated bibliography of 15-20 sources you consulted. This is simply a bibliography with a relatively short (6 – 10 sentences) explanation of the relevance of each source to the topic of your essay. Most importantly, your bibliographical entries must display precisely how you relate the reading to your topic; they may not simply be synopses of the texts.
