Unilever Unilever Has Operations in 150 Countries. Recently, Unilever Took 100

question 69

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Unilever
Unilever has operations in 150 countries. Recently, Unilever took 100 of these top managers on a jungle retreat to Costa Rica. To the dismay of Unilever's chair, there were no women in the group. Upon investigation, he learned that only one woman had even been invited. As the retreat progressed, its participants commented on the richness of diversity in nature and how everything needs diversity to grow. These comments caused Unilever's chair to establish an executive committee to examine practical ways to overcome barriers to women's promotion. They decided to avoid setting numerical targets because they encourage positive discrimination and instead examined recruitment and promotion practices.
-Refer to Unilever. By encouraging the promotion of more women to top management positions to better match the diversity of its stakeholders, Unilever was managing diversity through the ____________paradigm.

• A) equity and legitimacy
• B) access and fairness
• C) equity and fairness
• D) learning and effectiveness
• E) access and legitimacy

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Definitions:

Moral Development

The method by which people cultivate appropriate feelings and actions towards others within a community, in accordance with societal and cultural standards, regulations, and legislation.

Gilligan

Carol Gilligan is a psychologist best known for her work on ethical community and ethical relationships, and certain criticisms of Kohlberg's stages of moral development.

Kohlberg

A theorist known for his work in the development of moral reasoning, proposing that moral development progresses through a series of stages.

Conventional

Based on or in accordance with what is generally done or believed.