...Unintentional discrimination or disparate-impact occurs when a protected group of people is adversely affected by an employer’s practices, procedures, or tests, even though they do not appear to be discriminatory. Lyle’s claim of racial discrimination would fall under this due to the fact the the scriptwriters were unaware that Lyle found their words offensive. In their minds, they were just doing their job of writing a script for a television show that did include this adult humor. Lyle was not intentionally discriminated against because she was given the job initially. Amaani Lyle cannot show prima facie in this case. In order to show this, she must meet and prove the following: She is a member of the protected class. She applied and was qualified for the job in question. She was rejected by the employer. The employer continued to seek applicants for the position or filled the position with a person not in the protected class. She in this case can only prove one of these four requirements which is that she is a member of a protected class. Amaani was given the job because she claimed she was qualified. The fact that it was later discovered that Lyle could only type fifty words per minute, would have a huge impact on her case. She was hired under the false idea that she could type eighty words per minute. She applied and was hired for a job that she was not in fact qualified for which led to her termination. Lyle was fired because she could not type fast enough...
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...The Role of Human Resources in the Efforts to Prevent Discrimination and to Increase Diversity Nuttha Udhayanang PA 741, Spring 2015 West Virginia University We are proceeding toward a world in which barriers of countries and cultures are shrinking due to globalizes in economics and advances in technology. This phenomenon creates an even more competitive world. Capital and physical resources alone could no longer improve efficiency of organizations. Together with the current demographic trend within the United States, I believe that employing diversified workforce is a very essence for every organization. The organizations that employ quality and competitive workforce regardless of their age, attitude, language, and religion can become competitive in the current situation. Human Resource is an important asset in increasing and managing diversity, and preventing discrimination among workforce of any organization. Workforce diversity can be defined as “similarities and difference among employees in terms of age, culture background, physical abilities and disabilities, race religion, gender, and sexual orientation” (Saxena, 2014). It cannot be denied that diversity makes the workforce heterogeneous and is beneficial to any organizations. It can increase workers retention and productivity, as diversity improves interpersonal relationship within the organizations. It can also enhance the organizations’ responsiveness to an increasingly diverse world of customers, improving relations...
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...3.1 Understand the importance of diversity, equality and inclusion 1.1 Define and explain what is meant by: Diversity It means understanding that each individual is unique, and recognizing our individual differences. These can be along a persons race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and many more Equality Equality is ensuring individuals or groups are treated fairly and equally and no less Favourable. Promoting equality should remove discrimination in all areas of your workplace. Inclusion Inclusion is the act of including someone in something, like a school club or team. Discrimination Discrimination is an unfair treatment of a person such as someone treating you differently because of your racial group and ethnicity. 1.2 Describe how direct and indirect discrimination may occur in the work setting Direct Discrimination may occur if an employee is not considered for a promotion because of age or a job is refused to a person because of their disability. Indirect Discrimination may occur when employees are insisted to do night shifts as this could exclude those who have children to care for or by not making reasonable adjustments at work could exclude those employees with a disability. 1.3 Explain how practices that support diversity, equality and inclusion reduce the likelihood of discrimination Practices that support diversity, quality and inclusion to reduce the likelihood of discrimination may include encouraging everyone to express their views...
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...Behavior – Diversity Issues (Chapter Three) Study Guide Specific Diversity Issues 1. Gender Diversity in the Workplace 2. Race Diversity in the Workplace 3.Age Diversity in the Workplace 4.Religious Diversity in the Workplace 5.Employees with Disabilities in the Workplace 6. Sexual Orientation Diversity in the Workplace Gender Diversity in the Workplace The Equal Pay Act (1963) prohibits discrimination in pay based on gender. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (1964) prohibits discrimination in all employment-related decisions based on gender Earnings Gap The median earnings of women who worked full time in 2008 was 79% of men working full time. One explanation is that women are more likely to have gaps in their résumés because they are more likely to take time off to have children Race Diversity in the Workplace Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (1964) prohibits race discrimination in all employment-related decisions. Yet race discrimination still exists in organizations Age Diversity in the Workplace Despite their positive workplace behaviors, employees who are older often have to deal with age-related stereotypes at work. For example, a review of a large number of studies showed that those between 17 and 29 years of age tend to rate older employees more negatively, while younger employees were viewed as more qualified and having higher potential (age discrimination is prohibited by the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) Religious Diversity in the...
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...legislation, anti-discrimination legislation and managing diversity approaches. Discuss. Equality is the complicated theory to explain because of the wide variety of meaning attached to concept. Depends on the article of Jewson and Mason’s (1986), they express the equality in liberal and radical approach. In the liberal view, equal opportunity, this exists when all individuals are freely able to compete for social rewards. As Webb (1977) said, the liberal approach which is according to a belief in the rights of the individual to universally possible standards of justice and citizenship. The emphasis is on the individual, for example job selection should be focus on the merit of individual which performs fairly. On the other hand, the radical approach is to achieve not only the equal opportunity, but also the equal outcome. Compare to liberal approach, the focus of the radical approach is not on individuals, but on groups. “The ideal of the radical approach is a situation where every workforce is representative of all the social groups available to it” (Kaler, 2001: 53). For instance, although individual who is the group representative, the principle of selection will not choose the merit alone. To conclude, equality can be theorized in liberal and radical approach. Regard to the complicated conception of equality, to get the equal opportunity in employment which also is a complex and huge progress. It requires a mix of affirmative action legislation, anti-discrimination legislation...
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...in Management-Diversity Brenda Wilson Stringer MGT/216 Organizational Ethics and Social Responsibility August 23, 2010 Paul Nesbitt Management involved many ethical issues, and diversity is a major issue in management. The extent of cultural diversity within a company is referred to as the workplace diversity. “Diversity is defined as acknowledging, valuing, understanding, accepting, and celebrating the differences of people with respect to age, gender, ethnicity, class physical and mental ability orientation, race, sexual orientation, spiritual practice, and public assistant status (K. A. Green, M. Lopez, Wysocki & K. Kepner, 2008).” The demographics of a business market place allow the business to better understand its diversity. A company knows the breadth of knowledge that a diverse workplace, and states that they’re “Equal Opportunity Employer” who do not discriminate. By having diversity in the workplace, it helps maintain and stops discrimination. “Discrimination occurs whenever something other than qualification affects how an employee is treated (L. Trevino & K. Nelson, K., 2007. P. 69).” Discrimination involves age, ethnicity, race, gender, sexual preference, religious beliefs, and any other quality that varies from the accepted norm. During the decision making process for hiring, promotions, and layoffs occurs is when discriminations are involved. The “glass ceiling” is a good example of promotions involving discrimination in the work place...
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...individual clients and employee’s. There are many ethical issues involved in management. Diversity has become a major issue in the management world. Workplace diversity refers to the extent of cultural diversity within a company. “Diversity is generally defined as acknowledging, understanding, accepting, valuing, and celebrating differences among people with respect to age, class, ethnicity, gender, physical and mental ability, race, sexual orientation, spiritual practice, and public assistance status (K.A. Green, M. López, A. Wysocki, & K. Kepner, 2008)”. Diversity in business allows a business to better understand the demographics of its marketplace. Many advertise themselves as “Equal Opportunity Employers”, meaning they maintain a diverse workplace and will not discriminate. Though many ethical issues can be found with in the workplace, the most common is discrimination. Discrimination is one of the main issues currently stopping diversity. “Discrimination occurs whenever something other than qualifications affects how an employee is treated (L. Trevino & K. Nelson, K., 2007, p. 69)”. Factors contributing to discrimination often include age, race, ethnicity, religious beliefs, gender, and sexual preference. Discrimination occurs not only during the hiring process, but also in decisions for promotions and layoffs. The proverbial “glass ceiling” is an excellent example of discrimination...
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...Article: Gender Diversity in the Workplace Author: Lisowska, Ewa. Kobieta I Biznes Date of Article: 2009 This article talks about women in the workplace in Poland. In Poland women represent 45% of the total number of employee. This is observed in most of the European Union counters. Over 50 years this was very different, they had fewer woman because they prefer men, and the workplace was still only for hiring white, fit (not disable) and young males. Companies are trying to aim towards diversity and equality, and are establishing equal chances for everybody of both sexes. The polish labor market is fully implementing equality, but there is still discrimination against women. In this article they talk about why diversity, including gender diversity is so important. Women in Poland represent over half of the population, which is about 52%. The women are educated on various levels than men. The women that are deployed are better education than the working men. It does not matter in Poland because all of the decision making position in business or politics are taken by men. There have been significant changes in the last few years. Women have increase interest in male jobs, like police, transportation, bus and tram drivers. Women advancement has still been hindered. Another problem is that women are discriminated against when it comes to pay. Even if they are in the same positions the man are paid more. This is observed in the European Union. Gender diversity is happening...
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...Diversity: Religion and Workplace Introduction Religion is one of the biggest differences segmenting the world into different parts. There is no other reason from the dawn of time which caused more strife’s and argument among mankind than Religion. Religion can be defined as the faith or moral belief a person possess regarding the nature of being or existing the world. In the modern world there are roughly five or six major religious and yet countless other minor religions have sprung up and are continuing to spring up every day. Each believer of a religion defends and believes in it devoutly, to such an extent that he or she is willing to go towards bloodshed to defend its honor. The major religions of the world include, Islamic, Christianity, Hinduism, Atheism, Judaism, etc. These religions include the set of guidelines for the individuals on which to base their lives. The major religions all dictate that there is a Higher Entity, or God which governs the world and the Universe and all that is contains is it plaything and all the living creatures are its subjects (Trent, 2007). Such devout belief and intolerance against one’s faith becomes a very volatile subject and can become the cause of a major strike in an organization. Any good and reputed organization employees a variety of people all belonging to different backgrounds. Some of these religions might be major while some might be the minor ones. In such a scenario, the minority religion often suffers under...
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...Subject: Cultivating Diversity at General Motors Creating a more diversified General Motors must exceed legal requirements. Creating a new team dedicated to making General Motors a more diversified company is key to better serving customers and designing the world’s best vehicles. This team will include a vice president of diversity, diversity communication managers, diversity advertising, minority dealer development, and supplier diversity. This new team will be looking to promote minorities into qualifying management positions, diversify suppliers and diversify dealers. General Motors will create resource groups consisting of employees with shared backgrounds to support one another’s career. General Motors’ new resource groups will be for not only woman and racial minorities but also for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender employees. Diversity at General Motors will be expressed through advertising and by openly supporting gay employees. To help avoid more illegal discrimination anti-discrimination policies must be implemented expediently. These policies will encourage a workforce culture that will not allow discrimination in the working environment. First, set a strict standard that any discrimination on any level is unacceptable; and may result in immediate termination. A new multi-channel reporting for discrimination will be implemented to give employees more ways to report discrimination. Training that drills into management that ant-discrimination is their responsibility...
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...Adopting LGBT-Related Workplace Policies Introduction This study evaluates the economic impact of corporate non-discrimination and benefits policies by analyzing the extent to which economic reasons motivate corporations to adopt such policies. The past decade has seen a large increase in the number of corporations adopting LGBT-related workplace policies. In 1999, 72% of Fortune 500 companies included sexual orientation in their non-discrimination policies, and only a handful included gender identity.1 By 2009, 87% of such companies included sexual orientation and 41% included gender identity in their non-discrimination policies.2 Over the same time period, the percentage of Fortune 500 companies offering domestic partner benefits increased from 14% to 59%.3 This study reviews statements issued when adopting such policies by the top 50 Fortune 500 companies and the top 50 federal government contractors. Since companies began to adopt these policies, and state and local governments began to amend their laws to prohibit sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination, arguments have been made that the requirements are costly and burdensome for private businesses. As recently as May 2011, the Tennessee legislature repealed an ordinance passed by the city of Nashville requiring city contractors to include sexual orientation and gender identity in their non-discrimination policies.4 The Tennessee Chamber of Commerce initially supported the state bill, stating that “employment standards…should...
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...those major problems in management has been diversity. Diversity in the workplace refers to the amount that cultural diversity is inside a company. “Diversity is generally defined as acknowledging, understanding, accepting, valuing, and celebrating differences among people with respect to age, class, ethnicity, gender, physical and mental ability, race, sexual orientation, spiritual practice, and public assistance status (K.A. Green, M. López, A. Wysocki, & K. Kepner, 2008).” Moral and Ethical Issues Acquiring diversity in the business opens them to grasp the realization of the demographics of its marketplace, just as long as the company uses the opportunity that they receive from the knowledge of a diverse working environment. Businesses toady like to display their “Equal Opportunity Employer” status. What this status says is they like having a diverse work setting with no discrimination. Diversity is not going through that well mainly because of discrimination. “Discrimination occurs whenever something other than qualifications affects how an employee will be treated (L. Trevino & K. Nelson, K., 2007, p. 69).” Discrimination can affect race, age, religious beliefs, ethnicity, gender, sexual preference and any type of quality that does not fit with the society accepted normal. The issue of discrimination is not just happening in the hiring system, but even in the choices for layoffs and promotions. A fine example of discrimination in promotions is from the term glass ceiling...
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...Diversity Management Student Name: Nedjam Laurent Group: 10 Name of Diversity Management Instructor: Jérôme Sutter Full reference of the article discussed: * Cronain D. 2010: ‘Keeping Turkey out of Europe’, The guardian * D’Netto, B. and A. S. Sohal, 1999: ‘Human Resource practices and Workforce Diversity: An Empirical Assessment’, International Journal of Manpower 20(8), 530-547. * Maxwell, G. A., S. Blair and M. McDougall. 2001: ‘Edging Towards Managing Diversity in Practice’, Employee Relations 23(5), 468-482. * Hodson R. 2008: ‘The personal context of work’, The social organization of work I hereby certify that the word count is 1334 words Student signature: | 1. Summary of the paper This article about the case of Turkish manufacturing industry raises the question of discrimination. Especially, it focuses our attention on the impact of demographic differences in the Turkish manufacturing industry. In fact, sources of discrimination are much more varied. We can consider the cases of the gender, age and ethnicity which are in general the most frequent, but as we can see in this article, there are other types of discrimination. So why managers have to face and resolve the problem of demographic differences in Turkish manufacturing industry? Sevki Ozgener tried to study this organization in establishing demographic differences with data collected from medium-sized business in Turkish manufacturing industry. There are many...
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...Diversity Training – What’s missing? Pennsylvania State University May 2nd, 2014 Introduction Diversity is all around any given workplace at all times in all things. People in the world differ in many ways. People in the workplace are no different. From color to gender, from age to sexual orientation – no one person is ever the same. There is no hiding the fact that people are different. Often times, differences are intimidating for people. Even more often, because of lack of information, those fears turn into discrimination. Workplace discrimination is a global phenomenon. Discrimination claims often range from issues involving gender and age, to culture and religion, if only to name a few. Because of fear of the unknown or because of unwillingness to change, many people see diversity as a burden, one that should not be tolerated. But this viewpoint is, in its very being, discrimination itself. So what can an employer do to combat this negative way of thinking? The answer for so many organizations struggling with this topic is easy: diversity training. But, is diversity training really the answer or is there something more needed to do away with discrimination once and for all? What is Diversity Training? Webster’s dictionary defines discrimination as, “the practice of unfairly treating a person or group of people differently from other people or groups of people.”(Webster) When companies deal with discrimination due to prejudice against a certain subgroup of the population...
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...One issue in the global market today is workplace diversity. Workplace diversity is defined as all characteristics and experiences that defined each employee as individuals, but it can also be misunderstood as discrimination against employees. Diversity can include race, ethnicity, sex, religion, disability and sexual orientation discrimination. One reason why workplace diversity is important is because when you respect your employees productivity rate rises and many companies do not know that. A diverse workplace targets to create an inclusive culture that values and uses the talents of all employees. Evolution of Workplace...
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