Narrative 11-1 Unilever Has Operations in 150 Countries. Recently,Unilever Took 100 of 100

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Narrative 11-1
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,no women were 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 for anything to grow,there needs to be diversity. 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 Narrative 11-1. Which paradigm was Unilever managing diversity through by encouraging the promotion of more women to top management positions to better match the diversity of its stakeholders?

• A)equity and legitimacy  
• B)access and fairness  
• C)equity and fairness  
• D)access and legitimacy

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