This essay is for Managing Diversity and Equality module at Masters Degree in International Business. Length of essay is about 4,000 words Essay Style: • It should reflect critically on current policy and practice. • It should use theory to ‘delve below the surface’ to explore underlying dynamics, tensions and paradoxes. • It should emphasis theory and practice in balance, use of both. Essays will be assessed according to the following criteria: 1) How effectively the paper answers the question, 2) How well relevant theory is applied to the question, 3) The coherence of the analysis, 4) Whether the conclusions follow from the analysis, 5) Whether the paper is well written and agreed standards of referencing used. Important Note: As source please use journal articles and books. The main websites (the EHRC, TUC, DirectGov etc.) have a great deal of useful information including case studies, reports, statistics but you should not base whole work solely on these sites. Written work that is only supported by reading from the websites is not good. Also I have included PDF files regarding the topic. Please use them as guidance. Note: The quote above for essay title is referring to: that a management practices which used to be taken for granted can actually be discriminatory when analysed more carefully (for example about how the practice of asking for ''experienced'' workers might be ageist, another example how the assumption that only women would want to combine work and family responsibilities tends to reinforce women''s positions in lower paid jobs and so on). So the question is asking to analyse working practices in terms of whether they are likely to maintain people in lower paid jobs (or no jobs) or whether they are likely to open up the workplace so that people from all sorts of different circumstances can participate equally. * Jacques, R. (1007) The Unbearable Whiteness of Being: Reflections of a pale, stale male, in Managing the Organizational Melting Pot: Dilemmas of workplace diversity, eds.: Prasad, P., Mills, A.J., Elmes, M. and Prasad, A.: Sage