The company has a well established equal opportunities policy and the personnel department play a lead role in its administering it and monitoring practices across the company. Senior managers themselves organise human resource seminars and equal opportunities features from time to time as an agenda topic. G B Britas is herself, wheel-chair bound. However some senior managers are now questioning whether or not the personnel led policy is necessary. They estimate that equal opportunity oriented activities cost the company Pound54,000 per year.
Line managers are generally indifferent to the policy.
As a Personnel Officer, you have been invited to the next senior management seminar and to lead a discussion about the current policy.