...DISCRIMINATION IN THE WORKPLACE Introduction Background Discrimination is always been the issues that widely debate among people, no matter they are employees, company executives or authorities from labor union, and even though plenty of methods has been carried out the discrimination still exist in workplace nowadays. The definition of discrimination is commonly means the act of treating other people differently based on gender, age, marital status, race or physical appearance regardless of their capability and qualification in doing the jobs. There are many problems that might arises for fresh graduates in workplace from the act of discrimination, such as dissatisfaction due to unfair treatment, loss of self-esteem or morale, isolation caused by bias, unnecessary overload stress, restricted opportunity for uncovering talents, and poor loyalty towards company. Therefore, it is vital for any company to eliminate the prejudices among society that leads to workplace discrimination in order to boost performance and improve mutual trust between employers and employees. Purpose The purpose of our research is to: 1. Investigate and identify the reasons that may create discrimination in the workplace for fresh graduates. 2. Use the result of research to form applicable guides or rules that can help them to handle and reduce the phenomenon of workplace discrimination. Method There are two method that we will use for this investigation are through survey using questionnaires...
Words: 1876 - Pages: 8
...and relevant theories (e.g. youth participation to the labour market, discrimination, exploitation, etc.). Your essay should be: focused (what’s the point/problem?), academically informed (use of theories) and properly referenced, detailed (including statistical data, who is involved, etc.), balanced (you need to present the different view points), critical (who is right or wrong, for which reasons), and conclusive (so what? What to conclude). ETHNIC AND CULTURAL AWARENESS AT WORKPLACE Abstract This paper examines how Hispanic struggles within the workplace to negative factors such as discrimination, unfairness, injustice and harassment. It also places emphasis on historical and comptemporary antedecants, multiculturalism, and oppression. Introduction In an ideal world, every person is treated equally when it comes to getting a job, advancing in their career, and being treated fairly in the workplace. However in reality, we know this is not the case. Racial discrimination does still exist in hiring, firing, and promotions and unfortunately discrimination against Hispanics in the workplace is on the rise. As the economy worsens and job losses mount in America, there is an increase in discrimination toward Hispanics in the workplace in America. Racial discrimination poses a large problem in the American workplace. Racial discrimination affects people all over the world. In defining racial discrimination, the National Research Council differentiates between differential treatment...
Words: 2635 - Pages: 11
...CapraTek: Workplace Discrimination JacQuetta Mann Professor Robert Bigelow HRM 5118 December 5, 2015 Introduction CapraTek is a successful organization and like all organizations, they have come across some issues dealing with work place discrimination. The company has a potential problem that needs to be looked into and resolved. The issue is that a group of employees were in the lunchroom on a break. They were apparently watching a video of something on someone's tablet and the volume was apparently rather loud. One of CapraTek’s clients was passing through the room, heard at least part of the video and found it extremely inappropriate. Due to this incident CapraTek may have lost a major order because of this. There were several employees who were involved and have issued statements about the incident (CapraTek Media Case). CapraTek’s way of communication their policies and missions could be an explanation on why this type of behavior is happening. An organization has to make sure that their mission and policies are communicated with in the organization. There needs to be an updated discrimination policy that should be communicated to employees. The policy should state that a discrimination policy has been implemented due to concerns of discrimination acts rising. The purpose of the policy is to provide information about ways to prevent and respond to discrimination if it shall happen. This way CapraTek can achieve the...
Words: 1052 - Pages: 5
...Discrimination in the Workplace Joshua Najar Alejandro Komiyama Liria Nilzandra *out of country* Texas Tech University Sociology 1301, Section 004 November 7, 2015 The United States likes to believe that everyone living in it is equal to one another. Unfortunately, even in today’s world discrimination is still prevalent in our society. James Henslin, author of the book “Essentials of Sociology” defines discrimination as “an act of unfair treatment directed against an individual or a group” (G-2). One specific place in our society that still has discrimination is the workplace. A workplace can be described as “a place where people work, such as an office or factory” (Dictionary.com 2015). A company’s workplace can discriminate against a person’s race, ethnicity, gender, age, and religion. These discriminations will affect the person’s salary, work conditions, and determine if they get hired or not. Throughout time the United States has made several laws to protect certain groups against discrimination in the workplace. These laws have tremendously helped those groups however, they are still illegally discriminated against. There are numerous ways to analyze why there is discrimination in the workplace but we will be using the three sociologic perspectives. The three sociologic perspectives that we will use to analyze this topic will be the Structural Functionalism, Conflict Theory, and Symbolic Interaction. The Structural Functionalist Analysis will focus on how discrimination...
Words: 1666 - Pages: 7
...Gender stereotypes and discrimination in the workplace Introduction Organisations need to participation of diversity gender in workplace, which is very necessary, whereas, still have gender stereotypes and gender discrimination in the workplace. Stereotype refers to individual or specific types of people who have stationary characteristic when people think. As Michael P. (2001) said, stereotypes like a bias when people always accustomed to the mechanical classification to a specific person as a typical representative of class of persons and even the evaluation of certain types of people as a personal evaluation. Basically, stereotyping can turn into discrimination if people misunderstand a bias and undertaking upon it in a negative manner. This essay will concern the gender issue involving stereotyping in workplace when a person was supposed set of common characters and behaviours of particular gender. In addition, having gender discrimination tendency when stereotype turn into a negative manner in workplace and gender discrimination becoming a big problem in workplace, this essay will considered managers and employees how to face this problem and how to solve it. In the following lines gender stereotypes and discrimination in workplace will be involved with the help of literature. Main Body * Gender stereotypes 1. Definition for Gender Stereotypes The gender issue involving stereotyping in the workplace is when a person applies an assumed set of common traits...
Words: 839 - Pages: 4
...Discrimination in the Workplace Workplace discrimination has been around for years. However, there are laws that try to protect employees from that type of behavior today. The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (EDNA) prohibits discrimination in the workplace based on gender, race, disability, and recently included, sexual orientation (Anonymous, 2009). Yet despite existing laws about discrimination, many employees still suffer from some type of discrimination or harassment in the workplace. I will discuss the most common types of discrimination and some solutions that may work in your organization. Sexism is still prevalent even in 2009. For example co-authors Levitt and Dubner were featured on ABC’s 20/20 promoting their new book called Super Freakonomics which is the sequel to their original book called Freakonomics. On the show Steven Levitt stated that, “Women’s liberation has been great for high end prostitutes but not for our children.”(2009) Levitt and Dubner believe that in the 1940’s, more than half of Americas brightest women were schoolteachers. Now they have gone on to become doctors, lawyers, and bankers. Therefore, teachers are now left up people that are not as qualified. Levitt stated that successful women with MBA’s end up marrying men with MBA’s and staying home. This is the reason they are not paid as well. They believe that men are motivated by money and women are motivated by families. The authors go on to say that it is not discrimination that caused...
Words: 804 - Pages: 4
...Video 1: Types of Discriminations In this video have show 6 types of discriminations such as direct discrimination, indirect discrimination, association discrimination, harassment discrimination, victimization discrimination and perceptive discrimination. Based on the types of discrimination, director has do an example and show to the people to understand it. First of all is direct discrimination. Direct discrimination is usually clear and easy to spot. This situation will occurs when a company or organization make decisions not based on value or talents but on factors such as sex, race, religion or age. This is an obvious injustice, but companies often do not have much ability to refute their wrongdoing. In the video, we can see they have show 2 example to let people to know about direct discrimination. In the first example is an employee, he need to stay over working time to finish his work however the others employees who have a good relationship with boss, they do not need to stay over working time to finish their work. Next example is when a company have doing recruitment for recruit new employees, the top decision maker will do not give the judgment correctly because the top decision maker will have a mentalist that give priority to his friends, family or others people who have relationship with him. Second discrimination is indirect discrimination. Indirect discrimination is when a work requirement, condition or practice seems the same for all staff, but actually disadvantages...
Words: 1743 - Pages: 7
...harassment and discrimination in the workplace. Sexual Harassment and discrimination in the workplace have evolved throughout the centuries. The workforce has gone from being predominantly male dominated to being equal as more females are entering the workforce. Females over the years have become more career-oriented; therefore, many are the place within positions of authority as their male counterparts. Sexual harassment and discrimination are no longer restricted to males being the harasser. Today, a large majority of employees both males and females are subject to some form of harassment and discrimination in the workplace. How it impacts society, how employees deal with it, the ethical dilemma and sociological effect of discrimination are growing issues in the workplace due to sexual harassment and discrimination. Despite its proscription in legal jurisdictions around the world, workplace sexual harassment continues to be experienced by many women and some men in a variety of organizational settings. Since sexual harassment is such a large topic, let consider three aspects. First, with a focus on the workplace Sexual harassment as it pertains to management and organizations, to synthesize the accumulated state of knowledge in the field. Second, evaluate this evidence, highlighting competing perspective. Third, canvass areas in need of further investigations. Sexual harassment is a form of gender-based and employment discrimination. It is a verbal...
Words: 2693 - Pages: 11
...{DRAFT} YAZRUL FARHANA WILLIE PRINCES SITTI HAIDA DISCRIMINATION AT WORKPLACE IN MALAYSIA INTRODUCTION Discrimination against minorities at workplace in Malaysia Malaysia is a country with people raging from different racial and ethnic groups. That has what led Malaysia into one of a country that is unique compared to other countries around the world. However, the diversity of races in Malaysia can lead to discrimination. There are many issues about discrimination have been expressed, and most of these issues are very serious and should not be ignored. For our coursework, we select three news articles based on the issue of discrimination that occurred in Malaysia. The three selected articles were about the discrimination against gender, and race which is very common issues in Malaysia due to the multiracial community and the increasing population of women not just in Malaysia, but all over the world. Discrimination against race is a very significant issues occurred in Malaysia. Even more in the context of employment. Based on the Job seekers in Malaysia experience discrimination, by L.Suganya, The Jakarta Post, in the year 2013, there is an issue from a Facebook users claims that she could not get a temporary job as a sales person in a retail outlet because she wears a hijab (long headscarf) or tudung (short headscarf), created a debate with other users. This issue became viral in social media as it involving the racial issues. Based on this story, the...
Words: 3080 - Pages: 13
...Employment Law: Workplace Racial Discrimination October 3, 2011 Employment Law: Workplace Racial Discrimination A number of federal and state laws prohibit racial discrimination. Racial discrimination is the practice of letting a person's race or skin color unfairly become a factor when deciding who receives a job, promotion, or other employment benefit. It most often affects minority individuals who feel they have been unfairly discriminated against in favor of a Caucasian (or white) individual, but there have been recent cases where whites have claimed that reverse discrimination has occurred—that is, the minority received unfairly favorable treatment at the expense of the white individual. Racial discrimination in the workplace has been a challenging issue for the United States since awareness rose in the 1960s. Blacks and other minority workers have faced intimidation, harassment and subtler forms of racism such as the difficulty of landing a job or promotion, even when they have the requisite qualifications. The United States has been actively combating racial discrimination in the workplace for 46 years, yet challenges remain. Many people do not really know much information on how racial discrimination at workplaces may take place, but many concerns can be answered with these following questions: 1. How long has racial discrimination at workplaces been going on for? 2. What are the laws on racial discrimination about? 3. What are some reasons for racial discrimination...
Words: 1850 - Pages: 8
...DISCRIMINATION IN THE WORKPLACE Discrimination in the workplace has been present throughout history and has branched into various forms in the past and existing time periods. Individuals suffer losses and are jobless because of discrimination. Discrimination happens when an employee is treated unfavorably because of their race, skin color, gender, disability, religion, or age. There are four discrimination types that can be identified, they are disparate treatment, disparate impact, pattern or practice, and retaliation. Disparate treatment discrimination exists when individuals in similar situations are treated differently and when the differential treatment is based on the individual’s race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability status (Giffin, 2008). An employee with the same skills of other employees may not get to benefit like others because the victim may have a different religion, is an example of disparate treatment discrimination. If this employee tries to file a charge, they must prove that there was a discriminatory motive. Some companies can treat a member differently when bona fide occupational qualification exists for performing a particular job. Disparate impact discrimination is when an employment practice is neural and non-discriminatory in its intention but, disproportionately affects individuals having a disability or belonging to a particular group. An example of this discrimination is if the job requires a person to be strong...
Words: 1574 - Pages: 7
...| 1. Do discriminatory attitudes to older workers at work affect their retirement intentions? Type: Research paper Author(s): Pierre-Jean Messe Source: International Journal of Manpower Volume: 33 Issue: 4 2012AbstractPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether employers’ attitudes towards older workers, especially regarding promotions, really affect their retirement intentions, distinguishing between men and women. Design/methodology/approach – First, the author uses the 1992 wave of the Health and Retirement Study to estimate, through a Fields decomposition, the relative contribution of the feeling of an older worker to be discriminated against regarding promotions; and to explain the self-reported probability to work full time after 62, decomposing by gender. Second, using the two first waves of HRS, the author removes any bias due to time-constant unobserved heterogeneity, to test whether the individual feeling of being passed over for promotion may be misreported, owing to a strong preference for leisure. Finally, the author examines the effect of a change in this variable over time on the intentions to exit early. Findings – The Fields decomposition shows that feeling passed over for promotion plays a non-negligible role to predict retirement plans but only for women. In addition, using panel data allows a misreporting bias to be exhibited that may lead to underestimating of the negative effect of discriminatory practices towards older workers on their...
Words: 2582 - Pages: 11
...Discrimination and Harassment in the Work Place/Education System Sexual and racial harassment refers to the action of repeated, annoying sexual comments, gazes, threats due to race, and physical contact at the workplace and in schools. The 1964 civil rights federal act makes it illegal for employers to discriminate against employees or potential employees on the basis of religion, national origin, sex, color, or race. Now, companies and education entities around the world face the task to ensure decent working conditions for their employees and students in an environment free from discrimination and harassment. In cross-cultural companies, it's rather difficult because of the peculiarities of the mentality and the differences in cultural practices, but it is necessary to solve the problem of discrimination and harassment. Sexual and racial harassment is a common problem for both women and men; it not only leads to discrimination in labor, loss in wages, low productivity and stress, but also influences the general atmosphere of lawlessness and violence. There are many forms of discrimination, especially in the workplace. Before we get into the different types of discrimination, we need to define the word discriminate, which means to make a “distinction in favor of or against a person or thing on the basis of the group” or class, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex. Discrimination around us First, let’s talk about discrimination; could you imagine...
Words: 2554 - Pages: 11
...Discrimination in the Workplace - Discrimination is ‘the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.’ (Dictionaries, n.d.) Discrimination within the workplace is common and occurs across all types of employment industries, there are numerous forms of discrimination including, sex, gender, age, race, disability, and religion. Discrimination in the workplace has negative effects both for the business and individual employees; for example businesses can have a decrease in labour productivity, increase in financial costs and for employees it can cause health related implications (Paludi, 2012). It is a morale responsibility for managers to identify discrimination and use the correct discipline and remove it in order to create a legal, successful and happy workforce. ‘Discrimination based on sex, race or religion can't be tolerated.’ (Woodman, C. (2011). Sexual Discrimination – In the UK ‘twenty-five percent of female workers have experienced discrimination in the workplace. (Wires, 2013). These figures are high for a 21st century world and magnify how much of an issue this is for current managers. However, considering all women only gained the right to vote in 1928 (Myers, 2013) this is an improvement. A change in legislation was put in place to combat the issue in 1975 The Sexual Discrimination Act, ‘created to render unlawful certain kinds of sex discrimination and discrimination, promoting equality...
Words: 2011 - Pages: 9
...relates to discrimination and sexual harassment. Discrimination and sexual harassment are two very hot topics that are indicative of bias in the hiring process and an environment of hostility and offensiveness in the workplace. It is unlawful to discriminate against an applicant and with anti-discrimination legislation in place; the employment recruitment and selection can only be based on the potential candidate's ability to perform assigned tasks. Attributes such as the level of experience, degree of education, and the quality of skills should be the only factors of consideration with no regard to disability, age, ethnicity, gender, or other distinguishing characteristics of the applicant ("Discrimination in the Selection Process”). Sexual harassment in the workplace can come in form of sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature. There are two types of sexual behaviors that are unlawful: quid pro quo sexual harassment and hostile-environment sexual harassment. Quid pro quo sexual harassment happens when an individual's submission or rejection of sexual advances is used as the basis for employment decisions or as a term or condition of employment (“Sexual Harassment”). Hostile environment sexual harassment occurs happens when there is unwelcome sexual conduct that interferes with an individual's job performance and creates a hostile, intimidating or offensive work environment. Discrimination Anti-discrimination legislation...
Words: 1749 - Pages: 7
