Discuss affirmative action and its implications for hiring decisions. Discuss also the legality of preferential hiring and targeted recruitment. Real life application: What could your organization do...

Affirmative action can be defined as “an active effort to improve the employment or
education opportunities of members of minority groups and women” (Merriam-Webster,
2017). This means that affirmative action denotes those actions that are meant for bringing
about equality within a particular society and the equality can be both race and gender based.
The implications of affirmative action on hiring decision should be considered as positive as
more and more women are now getting into job positions at executive levels that were, in...