The Position Of A Hr Manager At Both The Uk And Russian...

Introduction: Throughout this assignment I will be placing myself in the position of a HR manager at both the UK and Russian Olympics and I will discuss possible issues that LGBT Olympians may face in such contexts. I will identify key challenges that I may face when introducing and implementing equality and diversity measures if the Olympic Games were to happen again today. I will approach such a task by first outlining the history and definitions associated with LGBT. I will frame this essay by drawing upon social and political changes through the enactment of laws and social movements, as well as empirical research, class-based discussions, and theories of equality and diversity. Brief history of the definition of LGBT: The acronym†¦show more content†¦Currently there are 76 countries where homosexuality is illegal and in 5 it carries the death penalty (Wical, 2014; Stonewall, 2015b). As the UK government and Stonewall (2015b) estimates that there are 3.6 million LGB people in Britain, which is thought to be an underestimate and does not include transgender people, it is not difficult to imagine the hundreds of millions of people living in fear of prejudice, oppression and death worldwide. A brief history of LGBT movements and attitudes, and current social and political movements in both countries: In 1987, the British Social Attitudes Survey found that 75% of the population held homosexual activity to be â€Å"always or mostly wrong†, with just 11% believing it to be never wrong (1987: 4). As of 2012, those figures showed that attitudes had altered to 28% and 47% respectively (2012: 5). As of 2015 Stonewall expanded its current campaigns and programmes to â€Å"include and involve† trans people and also â€Å"developed new work on issues that specifically affect them† (Stonewall, 2015c). LGBT citizens have most of the same legal rights as non-LGBT citizens and the UK provides â€Å"one of the highest degrees of liberty in the world for its LGBT communities†. This was documented in the ILGA-Europe (2014) review of LGBT rights which gave the UK with the highest score in Europe; they