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Perform a research audit on one of the top 10 companies identified by Diversity Inc  as a company that demonstrates the business case for diversity.

In this module, students will prepare the proposal for their audit. The proposal will include:

Students will submit a proposal which includes

• the company they will audit (with permission of an organizational leader such as the manager of the organization or a human resource manager) or company they plan on researching,
• The criteria by which results will be measured,
• A list of ten questions which will be asked in the auditordevelop thoughtful questions on the topic of diversity you will seek to answer in your research to measure the organization's diversity initiative against,
• Conduct a preliminary literature review for your research of the company

Final paper

If you performed research on one of the top 10 companies identified by DiversityInc as a company that demonstrates the business case for diversity, include a literature review of your research on that company. The literature review should include sources from scholarly and professional journals describing the performance of the organization as it relates to diversity, in addition to the organization's website that you are researching. The literature review should include a bibliography of sources and a brief paragraph describing the contents of the source.

• Include the list of the thoughtful questions regarding diversity used in the interview/research.
• Indicate whether you toured the company and any copies of the company newsletters, value statements, and so forth. If you are using the DiversityInc firms, include these in your research as well as any websites you visited in your research.
• Evaluate what you have learned about the company in terms of diversity, comparing it against the criteria you established. Be sure to pay attention to subtle cues (i.e. is there evidence that they really do what they say they do). For example, a manager proudly pointed out that his large retail organization hired physically challenged workers. However, they were all assigned to work in the stockroom, where they were never seen by any customers. Or a company who is recognized for their hiring of the disabled, have no disabled employees visible on their website. Feel free to add additional criteria that you did not think of after the interview/visit or research was completed.

Students are asked to submit their responses in a seven-to-ten page paper, double spaced, 12-point font, in an .RTF or Word file names with their last name, assignment number (i.e. SPECTOR_M5A1) by the due date.