Business Foundation Resources Required

Question: Discuss about the Business Foundation Resources Required. Answer: Introduction: For objective number one of carrying out public awareness campaign in the nearby city or town, the campaign will be carried out for a period of one month on weekly basis every Saturday. This is the day where most of the students dont have lectures to attend and also teaching and non teaching staffs have a free day from work (James Wooten, 2006). The group should involve local police administration so that they can control traffic on the said days and provide security. The success of the objective will be to have as many people as possible with banners and in T-shirts that have messages that speaks against gender discrimination. The organizing group will design the T-shirts then share this with the rest of the people whom may want to be part of this noble cause of fighting for the less privileged in the society. The T-shirts and the banners should be designed in a manner that they can easily capture the attention of the audience from both near and afar (Njogu Orchardson-Mazrui, 2013). The organizing group will plan for the peaceful procession two months in advance to enable them reach as many people in the school as possible and also ask them to contribute by sponsoring themselves for the branded T-shirts and placards. The resource required is mainly fund to print branded T-shirts and placards but this will be met by individual participants thus making it easy and viable. Petitioning Parliament to Enact Laws aimed at Protecting People against Gender Discrimination On objective number two of having to petition the parliament to enact laws that will protect against gender discrimination, the group will collect signatures from the students and University staff to petition the local representative of parliament of the place where the institution is found to take to parliament bills that will help fight gender discrimination. The signatures can be collected for a period of month. The resources required is the writing materials which members of the group will contribute (Moser, 2012). The Member of Parliament has to present the bills to the assembly within one month of petition for discussion at the floor of the house. Group members should always follow up on this until the bills are enacted into laws-Time frame depend on the specific country. There will be an anticipated date of completion for each of the actions that have been stipulated in the social action plan for Gender Discrimination. In addition to that, there are various resources which will be needed in order to have such actions completed successfully. A social action plan is quite essential because it can be used as a major mechanism and gender mainstreaming mechanism for ensuring that there is gender inclusiveness in both the design and the implementation of gender discrimination projects. Gender action plans (GAP) are quite important because they present visibility as well as accountability in gender mainstreaming thus making it to not only become tangible but also explicit in project design as well as implementation. The social action plan indicated below is quite essential because it will greatly help in the provision of a road map that will be used in implementing, monitoring, and evaluating the project (Benera, Berik Floro, 2015). In addition to that, it will also help in ensuring that there is delivery of practical benefits to various women and help in the facilitation of strategic changes that will be used in gender relations. Development of Development Strategies to Counter Cases of Gender Discrimination in the Institution As they say that charity begins at home, it will be prudent to ensure that viable strategies aimed at reducing gender discrimination in our institution are not only identified, bit also locally applied before they are ultimately suggested to the parliament for approval. Carrying out a pilot study on such strategies in our own institution is quite essential because it will provide the stakeholders with an opportunity to point out any weak areas and resolve them instantly. The third objective will be the development of strategies within our academic institution that will not only recognize but also accommodate the differences that exist in not only our background, but also in family responsibilities and perspectives of the various stakeholders. To ensure that gender discrimination is not embraced in our institution, student leaders will have to organize for meetings that will comprise of all the organizational stakeholders with an aim of coming up with the best strategies that will address the issue of diversity in our institution and beyond. This process is bound to take a maximum of 31 days or approximately one month and among some of the resources that will be required will be laptops, projectors, and even facilitators who will teach stakeholders regarding the issue of gender discrimination and how it can it avoided in our organization (Chant, 2013). The meetings to be held by representatives of the various stakeholders in the organization will be aimed at ensuring that any continued disadvantage which is experienced by specific groups of individuals in our organization such as women, people having disabilities, and even other individuals who are segregated or discriminated on the basis of their gender are addressed. The major aim of this objective is thus aimed at bringing together all stakeholders in the institution who will be in a better position of not only pointing out the various aspects of gender discrimination that may be occurring in their respective areas, but also ensure all relevant stakeholders are brought on board. It will also be geared at coming up with effective strategies that may be used to ensure that any form of gender discrimination is resolved once and for all. The use of projectors will come as a vital resource because the meeting will comprise of numerous organizational stakeholders and thus the need to have a better communication mechanism. Using of Websites and other social Media Platforms to lobby and Create awareness regarding the Gender Discrimination Issue The use of numerous social media platforms will be a significant resource in helping to not only create awareness among the general public across the world, but it will also significantly help in helping protect individuals against any form of gender discrimination (Kalev, 2014). To ensure that this is achieved, the leadership of the student union will conduct elections to elect leaders who will be tasked with the responsibility of developing viable social media platforms which will be used in reaching a wider audience and providing a platform on which the views of all and sundry can be obtained on how best to deal with the issue of Gender discrimination. Some of the resources that will be required in order to ensure the attainment of this vital objective includes but are not limited to laptops, modems and internet providers, phones, and even website developers and other relevant people who will be tasked with the responsibility of not only maintaining, but also developing the websit es. The creation and maintenance of social media platforms that will be used in the creation of awareness on the issue of gender discrimination will be designed with an aim of reaching a wider local, national, and global audience. Some of the social media platforms that will be designed by the elected team will include among others Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Imo, Whatsapp, and even websites (Cahill Makadon, 2014). In essence, the creation or development of the social media platforms that will be used in raising awareness regarding gender discrimination will take a maximum of two months (Yentsch Sindermann, 2013). The team that will be tasked with the responsibility of developing these social media platforms will be mandated with ensuring that the platforms are not only user friendly, but also ensure that the platforms present users with an opportunity to raise any form of queries and present information in relation to protection against Gender discrimination. Lobbying Stakeholders to support the enactment of laws that protect against gender discrimination Lobbying of stakeholders such as human rights activists, representatives of parliament, and other people towards ensuring that they support the enactment of laws aimed at protecting individuals from gender discrimination will take one month. This is a very important process and thus the organizers will ensure that all the required resources are availed at the right people, at the right time, and at the right place (Missair, 2016). Some of the essential resources that will be used to lobby stakeholders into supporting the enactment of laws against gender discrimination include, but are not limited to buses to ferry members, placard, writing materials, felt pens, whistles e.t,c. Organizers and other people interested in creating awareness and lobbying for the enactment of laws against gender discrimination will carry placards and whistle around parliament as the laws will be undergoing various stages to ensure representatives of parliament are made aware of their importance (Kastellec, 2013). Timeline of the four Objectives Number Objective Resources Timeframe 1. Carrying out public awareness Campaigns Tshirts, ink, paint 1 month 2. Enacting of laws to protect against gender discrimination Writing materials 3 months 3. Strategies to counter discrimination Projectors One month 4. Creation of websites, social media platforms Internet, laptops, modems 2 months There are several potential risks or drawbacks that will be associated or linked with each of the actions points mentioned above and these include among others: Rowdy Crowd The key risk on the first action plan is the crowd turning rowdy. Before the procession starts, the crowd has to be guided and advised to avoid any kind of confrontation along the way. Also others may faint due to fatigue thus the school ambulance must be around in case of such eventuality. Misunderstanding by the Member of Parliament On the second action plan, the key risk involves being misunderstood by the Member of Parliament whom the group intends to petition to forward the request to the parliament for consideration (Ertrk Purkayastha, 2012). The member has to understand the objective of the group clearly before being asked to present the petition to the house on behalf of the group. This will also help when other members of the parliament starts interrogating the petition to see if it has something tangible that can be discussed on the floor of the house. Financial Constraints It was ascertained that despite the fact that so many people were quite interested to get involved in activities that were aimed at raising awareness against gender discrimination by organizers, it was ascertained that most of them were unable to do so because of financial constraints. Owing to the fact that majority of the organizers were indeed students who relied upon their parents and guardians for financial upkeeps, they were actually unable to raise funds for their own transportation and even to buy t-shirts to drive their point or message home (Fragoso Enrquez, 2016). In addition to that, the fact that the funding to be used in printing of branded placards and T-shirts on gender discrimination will be shouldered by respective participants will make the number of participants to be low. This is attributed to the fact that majority of them are not working class and thus will not be in a better position to raise funds to be used in purchasing of such vital resources. It was prud ent if the organizers could seek for sponsorships and donors to help them carry out such campaigns (Dobbin Kalev, 2013). This is because almost everyone will want free things and thus giving them T-shirts and placards for free will quite definitely make the total number of participants to become higher and easily drive the message home. Harsh weather/climatic conditions Owing to the fact that organizers of events aimed at speaking against gender discrimination may be opted to walk on foot in order to create a positive impact, the presence of both extremely hot and cold weather conditions cannot be totally ruled out. Such conditions can make some of the members to become dehydrated and sickly thus affecting their normal lives (Lassonde, 2014). It is quite apparent that some individuals are highly affected by extremely hot and cold conditions and thus campaigns aimed at creating public awareness on the issue of protection against gender discrimination may ultimately create negative impacts. Invasion of the systems by Viruses Owing to the fact that the success of creating public awareness on gender discrimination will be highly reliant or dependent on the effective use of social media platforms, it is quite apparent that the systems that will be used in the creation of such awareness may become infiltrated with viruses. Viruses are destructive programmes or software that are developed with rogue computer users with the intention of causing inconvenience and destruction for other computer users. The infiltration of such viruses into the systems that will be used in dispatching communication against gender discrimination may greatly affect the endeavors in that not only may lead result into the data loss for this important endeavor, but it may also subsequently expose private personal information of users on such platforms to unauthorized third parties (Barak, 2013). The availability of private user information to third parties who are unauthorized might be quite risky since such people might not only use s uch information to steal money from such individuals, but they may also use such information to commit other cyber crimes without the knowledge of users. The absence of regularly updated antivirus programs on the computer machines and laptops that will be used in storing vital information on public awareness campaigns against gender discrimination may subject them to attack by viruses (Walsh, 2015). This is attributed to the fact that since most of the social media platforms use the internet, the machines are prone to get infected by viruses since the internet is the major source of such destructive programs. Lack of Effective Leadership Skills Owing to the fact that most members organizing campaigns against gender discrimination are students, it is quite evident that they may lack the vital skills to not only control crowds but also lead them to ascertain what is right and what is wrong (Christie Thakur, 2016). The absence of such skills may quite definitely make leaders organizing such campaigns to lose the ability to manage such crowds. 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