I am trying to identify the 3 aspects of diversity that will have a positive impact on the company. "Include at least three aspects of diversity that will have a positive impact on the behavior of the organization. What new processes and continued training plans can NoJax implement to ensure successful assimilation of new employees?"

NoJax Inc. Company Structure

NoJax Inc. currently uses the matrix structure pictured below.Product managers each oversee a single specific product line.There are currently four product managers that oversee four different types of products.Those products are running shoes, running apparel, weight lifting shoes, and weight lifting apparel.There are also three different departments with their own expertise.Those departments are Design, Marketing, and Research and Development (R&D).The Senior Management team currently consists of the two company founders, Noah and Jaxson Williams.There are a total of 50 employees working at NoJax in the positions shown below.

Senior Management

Alice Bloom DesignManager

Janet Johnson Marketing Manager

Orlando Grant R&DManager

Carrie Durant Running Shoes Manager

Jesse Mercado Running Apparel Manager

Anam Basra Lifting Shoes Manager

Lynn Bryant Lifting Apparel Manager

NoJax Inc. Policy

NoJax currently adheres to a very centralized power and decision making structure.

Employees are heavily monitored in order to make them as efficient as possible at their positions.This includes weekly status meetings with managers and daily activity reports that must be filled out by each employee.

When decisions do have to be made it generally requires multiple approvals from both direct managers and someone from the senior management team.Routine decisions regularly take 48 hours to be made.

Disagreements between the product and department managers happen frequently and a clear mediation process for these instances has yet to be developed.

Roles and members of teams stay consistent.Employees do not rotate through positions at the company and are restricted from changing teams.

Job tasks and design is very clearly defined with little variation between roles.

Yearly evaluations of employees include ranking all of the employees in the company.Raises are handed out based on each employee's ranking. The top workers can receive up to a 6% raise and the bottom employees receive no raise.

All employees are paid a base salary.Pay is slightly above industry average, and employees average 50 hours of work in a week.

NoJax does offer health and dental to employees but nothing in the form of investments or retirement plans.

The hiring process at NoJax Inc. includes individual interviews with a product manager, a department manager, and then senior management.Typical time from receiving a resume to being hired is three months.

Employees are allocated ten days off a year.Those days are meant to cover everything.This includes sick days, vacation, and personal days.Any days missed past that must be emergencies with some form of proof, such as a doctor's note.

Human Resource responsibilities are handled by the senior management team, as an actual HR department has never been created.

All manufacturing and distribution of NoJax products are outsourced to third-party partner businesses.

Discipline at NoJax works on a point system.Infractions, such as being late or acting out, cause employees to accumulate points.After an employee reaches 10 points they are written up.An additional 10 points can lead to a suspension.Points reset every calendar year and there is no carry over from the previous year.

Alice Bloom

Position:Design Department Manager

Sex: Female

Age: 62

Race: Caucasian

Work Experience: 40 years

Education: High School Diploma

Personality:

oExtraversion--High

oEmotional Stability--Medium

oOpenness--Low

oConscientiousness--Medium

oAgreeableness--Low

Employee:

Janet Johnson

Position:Marketing Department Manager

Sex: Female

Age: 27

Race: African American

Work Experience: 5 years

Education: Bachelor's Degree in Marketing

Personality:

oExtraversion--High

oEmotional Stability--Low

oOpenness--High

oConscientiousness--Medium

oAgreeableness--Medium

Employee:

Employee:

Orlando Grant

Position:Research and Development Department Manager

Sex: Male

Age: 29

Race: African American

Work Experience: 4 years

Education: Associate's Degree in Marketing

Personality:

oExtraversion--High

oEmotional Stability--High

oOpenness--High

oConscientiousness--Low

oAgreeableness--Medium

Carrie Durant

Position:Running Shoes Product Manager

Sex: Female

Age: 41

Race: Caucasian

Work Experience: 12 years

Education: Bachelor's Degree in Communications

Personality:

oExtraversion--Medium

oEmotional Stability--Medium

oOpenness--Medium

oConscientiousness--Medium

oAgreeableness--High

Employee:

Employee:

Jessie Mercado

Position:Running Apparel Product Manager

Sex: Female

Age: 34

Race: Hispanic

Work Experience: 10 years

Education: Bachelor's Degree in Business Management

Personality:

oExtraversion--Low

oEmotional Stability--Medium

oOpenness--Medium

oConscientiousness--High

oAgreeableness--High

Employee:

Lynn Bryant

Position:Lifting Shoes Product Manager

Sex: Female

Age: 52

Race: Caucasian

Work Experience: 20 years

Education: Bachelor's Degree in Psychology

Personality:

oExtraversion--Medium

oEmotional Stability--High

oOpenness--Medium

oConscientiousness--High

oAgreeableness--Medium

Employee:

Anam Basra

Position:Lifting Apparel Product Manager

Sex: Female

Age: 38

Race: Pakistani

Work Experience: 10 years

Education: Master's Degree in Sports Management

Personality:

oExtraversion--Medium

oEmotional Stability--Medium

oOpenness--Low

oConscientiousness--High

oAgreeableness--High