WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN PUBLIC PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION?

By: Poonia, Rakhi

This book answers important questions about what is affirmative action? What is the goal of affirmative action? What is public personnel administration? What is the importance of affirmative action in public personnel administration? Pictures of affirmative action and public personnel administration in this book are assembled by 8-year-old Aaron Poonia.My first encounter with affirmative action started in 2003 when I was working at Barnes and Noble bookstore at Lansdale, Pennsylvania. I asked the store manager if I could read books for GRE and TOEFL exam. He refused. He said Barnes and Noble is a bookstore and not a library. If I wanted to read books, I had to buy them. So, I started working at the store for 12 dollars and 50 cents an hour. While I was working there, the white manager of the store did not allow any African American boys to sit and read the books at the store. However, he allowed white people to read books. This discrimination based on color of skin and ethnicity is unacceptable to me. Discrimination based on color of skin, religion, ethnicity, gender is not fair. It was at Barnes and Noble bookstore where my journey towards building an equitable society began. I used the money I earned at Barnes and Noble bookstore to buy all GRE and TOEFL books at that store. Thereafter I prepared for the exam and cleared it with a percentile of 96.I started studying Public Administration and social equity at a university in United States. I learnt that we should stand up against discrimination and unfair laws. I also learnt that African Americans households with the same degree and same qualification are 65 percent poorer than white households in 2020. Their economic status has become worse in 2020 than what it was in 1979.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08FP9YZQJ
• ISBN13: 9798674549574
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 28 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"