The Case of G B Britas Limited
Use of this short case study in an HRM examination paper.
G B Britas is a manufacturing company employing around 1000 people, equally dispersed across three sites in north-west, north-east and south London.
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. A company personnel (equal opportunities) officer for example runs equal opportunities awareness programmes which staff, other than senior managers, are required to attend at least once every year. 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 £54,000 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.
BOLA Cases
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