...think will work, when in reality if they took the time to study them they would realize how the person works and or who they really are. First of all everyone should be treated equal because everyone is the same, some people might be short, others tall, some skinny and some fat but that doesn’t matter because deep inside we are all the same. Also people should be treated equally so that everyone has the chance to do something in life. Some employers hire individuals based on their ability to get a job done. Some employers hire people based on their qualifications and their experiences concerning a particular job. However, there are employers out there that hire someone based purely on how the person looks. Whether it be based on their skin color, age, gender, or sexual orientation. Discrimination is everywhere no matter where we look, but it should stop because it is just not fair, everyone should be treated equal. Companies do not always get the best workers, they tend to go for the people who are good looking and people they think will bring more business and costumers. For example a lot of Mexican people come to this country to become successful and do something about their lives, but the system of the united states decides to block them out because they say they’re aliens. The Age Discrimination Act of 1963 is supposed to protect individuals who are 40 years old or older. Although this law protects them, they are losing their jobs, missing out on promotions, and are...
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...been an important and grave issue of concern for companies across the world. Such discrimination occurs when an employer singles out any one employee or a group on the basis of age, race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, religion and other reasons. Workplace discrimination can take place in a number of forms that include illegal hiring and firing, on-the-job harassment, denial of a worker’s promotions or raises and unequal pay. For this reason, several laws have been created to protect the people from discrimination and retaliation from their employers. Read on to know the different types of discrimination in the workplace. Gender Discrimination Also known as sexual discrimination or sex-based discrimination, gender discrimination takes place when one gender is preferred over the other. In this case, one employee is treated in an unfair manner or inequitable manner by his employer, on the basis of the employee’s gender. Racial Discrimination Racial discrimination is the most common form of employment discrimination. Employees are treated harshly or differently based on their race or ethnicity. Though there are laws that prohibit employers to deny a job-seeker employment opportunity because of his/her racial group and characteristics, it is a common practice in most of the workplaces. Age Discrimination Middle-aged and older employees are at a higher risk of being terminated in favor of younger employees, who are likely to give the company a younger look at...
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...considered by human resource departments to ensure that a company secures the best employees for their advertised jobs. A great number of individuals across the globe qualify for various job positions but one thing that determines how best fit they are is their level of commitment and the skills they have (Mathias and Jackson, 2010). A company has to ensure that an individual fit for the job conforms to the legal requirements as it is stipulated in the country’s constitution, thus acknowledging his or her rights as an employee. With the above in mind, common sense and compassion has been replaced by litigation because most companies do not consider the importance of their employees having the right to legal, safety and regulatory requirements when carrying out the recruitment process. It is common sense that people need to work as a nation and not bonded by employment discriminative lines whereby issues such as race, sex, color and religion are given an upper hand. Under title four of the Civil Right Act of 1964, the constitution of the United States America prohibits employers from discrimination anyone while carrying out their recruiting process (Renckly and Renckly, 2004). The market available consist of people who are willing to put their races, sex and color away and focus on achieving the same goal for the betterment of their organization. It is true that disability is not inability but the perception that people have towards the disable is not appropriate. The problem...
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...Chandra Brazier, Natasna Jiggets, and Susan Wallace November 30, 2014 HCS/430 Ann Nevers It is the policy of this organization to not base its hiring practices on any form of discrimination. Types of discrimination that is not tolerated include age, disability, equal pay, nationality, pregnancy, race, color, sex, veteran status, and religion. This organization also prohibits any act of retaliation and any form of harassment (“Laws & Guidance”, n.d.). Organization’s Position in Response to Non-discrimination Issues We do not tolerate any offensive behavior or intimidation of an employee based on the above types of discrimination. Any employee should avoid conducting themselves in a manner that could subject their fellow employees to any act of humiliation or embarrassment. Any employee who believes he/she is being subjected to any violation of this policy should immediately contact any trusted member of management. It is also appropriate for the employee to tell the person engaging in such conduct to stop if he/she feels comfortable doing so. Once this organization receives a report of discrimination or harassment, a thorough investigation will be conducted. Appropriate action will be taken. It is against this organization’s policy for any employee to retaliate against another employee if a report of discrimination or harassment has been made. All complaints will be taken seriously and all information and interviews will be handled as confidentially as possible and all information...
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...3. Key Facts and Analysis. Discrimination in the office workplace, defined as when an employee experiences unfair treatment on the basis of “race, religion, national origin, disabled or veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics,” is an area of legitimate alarm in the American job market, and is prohibited by Federal Equal Employment Opportunity laws. According to these laws, discrimination extends to harassment, retaliation against an employee who files a claim about unfair treatment, and “employment decisions based on stereotypes” (EEOC). While viewers of The Office may laugh at the antics of “Diversity Day,” the episode also portrays how to handle discrimination through the way it precisely portrays how not to handle it....
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...MGT/216 September 1, 2010 Chrystal Tart Ethic Issues in Management In business ethic issues occurs on a regular basics. How does business resolve these matters? What legal aspect does management may have to address? In any business management has to prepare for ethic issues. The businesses realize that being unaware of ethic issues in the company can be a problem waiting to erupt. In this paper I will discuss moral and ethical issues, social issues responsible in management, and legal aspects facing management. In the business world management has multiple tasks to complete on a daily basic. In a business managers are seen as a leadership role. The leader must be productive efficiency with a group of employees. The task of handling moral and ethical issues is critical aspect that management has to address. The moral issues can be tough to handle. Individuals view morals as what is right and wrong pertaining to all situations. Ethic issues ties into the moral views of the employee as well. The norm is that everyone knows right from wrong. In the workplace employee are diverse and unique. Also there are different ethnicity, race, gender, ages, and physical disabilities in the workplace. Some of the moral and ethics issue managers have to face are termination, hiring, working hours, work ethic bias, discipline, and harassment. How do managers tackle such a major problem facing business around the country? The first step would start from the top of the organization...
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...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...
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...0 Introduction pg 1 2.0 Describe the nature of the HR issue facing the organization pg 1 3.0 3.0 Relevant HR policies that are causing issues in MAS: pg 2 & 3 a) Seniority promotion over merit b) Specialist management program (SMP) c) Discrimination policies 4.0 Determine the internal and external environmental factors that pg 4 & 5 impact on the issue: a) Discrimination Policy : External & Internal b) Poor Leadership: External & Internal c) Seniority promotion: Internal 5.0 Theory & Solution to overcome the issue pg 6 & 7 a) Technical Ability b) Behavioral Interview c) Managerial Training d) Leadership Development Program 6.0 How will the solution overcome bigger issue? pg 8 a) Dealing with leadership shortage b) Dealing with Discrimination Policy c) Financial loss & Surplus of worker 7.0 Conclusion pg 9 Reference pg 10 1.0 Introduction In this assignment, I’m writing a report regarding the HR issues that are being practice by the Malaysia national air transport service known as ‘Malaysia Airlines System’ (MAS). MAS are connected to Government-Link-Companies (GLC), where the government is the biggest shareholder and have direct control stake of the company. The government has the power to appoint their senior management, making major business decisions, appoint the members of Board of Directors for all GLC organizations. In...
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...Transcript • 1. Workforce Diversity: How Can A Leader Manage A Diverse Workplace?Successful Workplace Diversity For ManagersMonique RodgersColorado Technical UniversityJanuary 9, 2011The dimensions of diversity include; race, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability and gender. Diversity in the workplace has an influential perspective on the atmosphere of the workplace. A diverse workplace is one that does not focus primarily on the job alone but also on the employees that work at the company. The diverse workplace is centered around bringing people together as one and working together on a common goal. At times this is not easy to do in a workplace as it creates a lot of conflict between the workers due the differences that are being displayed. For some people, is not easy to work with someone of a different gender, and for other’s it is not easy to work with another person who expresses a different religion. Then for others they cannot handle working with someone who has a different sexual orientation such lesbian, bi-sexual, or gay couples. Diversity helps to bridge the gap between the differences and helps employees to work on a level that is conducive and effective for the workplace. A manager helps to bridge the diversity gap by joining the company together to celebrate the differences that are associated amongst the employees. A manager’s role is not to necessarily accept or believe in what the employees portray but to only accept them and respect what they believe in...
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...different with a variety (Diversity, 2012). Diversity in the workplace allows the employees to accept, appreciate, acknowledge, respect, and celebrate the differences of all the people with regard to race, age, sex, sexual preference, and physical and mental ability. Globalization in today’s business world means interacting with people from all over there world with different cultures, beliefs, and backgrounds. The U.S. population is forever changing, which makes the diversity within this company change (Green, Lopez, Wysocki, & Kepner, 2012). a. What are the demographic changes? • Women in the workplace The workforce of today’s levels of employment has obtained the highest level of involvement ever by women. An increase in two incomes within a family and single mothers who work has been seen in today’s market because of the change in family structure. Diversity issues are seen in all races and gender with fewer mean and women in traditional family roles (Green, Lopez, Wysocki, & Kepner, 2012). • Organizational Restructuring Downsizing and outsourcing are resulting in significant changes in organizations. The impact of globalization and technology are changing work practices with trends that lean towards lengthen working hours. Many reorganizations cause less people within an organization doing more work than before (Green, Lopez, Wysocki, & Kepner, 2012). • Legislation Discrimination with the workplace is illegal because of Federal and State equal opportunity legislation...
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...Elyce Emily MBA 525 Reaction Paper 6 June 9, 2013 Over the past century we have seen many changes in the workforce. We have seen the impact of the Industrial revolution, the importance of technology when expanding a business, and many changes in the face of the workforce. We have become a more diversified workforce that we cannot deny. With a more diversified workforce we have seen differing policies to handle the differences in everything from language to religious holiday vacation. But, in having a workplace accommodate for diversity something that we should think of as a luxury, or is it something that is a necessity in today’s workforce? Companies have differing philosophies about almost everything, and accommodating diversity is definitely one of them. Jaya Bohlmann, Vice President of PR at Sodexo states “Diversity is primarily a business requirement — without it, we could not respond correctly to our clients’ needs” (Jacques, 2010). Companies have come to the conclusion that if our country is going to continue to be a diverse and including place, then our businesses must mirror this idea. Like Sodexo, if we see accommodating diversity as a business requirement then we have also made the employee’s interest a business requirement. Employees feel important to the business plan. Pace states that a team cannot be effective without appreciating each other’s individual differences, and showing tolerance to those that are different...
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...everyone is going to get along on a daily basis. There’s going to be conflicts in every environment especially in the workplace. Conflict is a typical phenomenon of people’s relationship in workplace. Conflict is a fact of life. Conflict is hard to define because every situation is different in every different workplace. Conflict is a job not easily handled, and it can be really destructive if not properly taken care of. The Webster’s Dictionary (2001) defines conflict as a battle; clash; or a disagreement of ideas, or interests. In order to resolve the conflict you must do whatever is best in the specific situation. Conflict is a problem that is tough for employees and managers to face. One of the most common specific sources of interpersonal conflict in the workplace is different perceptions among different individuals about their respective work responsibilities and areas of authority. (Blair, 2003) Workplace conflict can be caused by improper communication skills, difference in values or opinions, lack of fairness between race, gender, age, sex, class, education, and ability, different work environment, different cultures and limitations on resources. “Conflict in the workplace occurs when two or more people disagree over issues of organizational substance and / or experience some emotional antagonism with one another.” (Wood et al., 2003, p. 597) Workplace conflict is a conflict that can be caused by many factors. It can cause a great deal of stress for all those involved...
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...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...
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...story but, to many people in this country, it is a real horror. This is only one of the many examples of instances where people are withheld a standing in jobs due to their racial background. Racial discrimination in the workplace is a real issue and it must end. Allow me to show you various different events in which racial discrimination took part and ruined lives. Allow me to tell you of a young African American man who used to work in a factory. The man’s name was Wayne A. Elliott and he worked in a factory that made military air plane parts. While he was working there he would constantly be harassed by his white co-workers. They would do things like call him racial slurs, send him “back-to-Africa” tickets, and even go as far as to draw hangman’s noose in his office, as seen on paragraph three in “Racism in the workplace, by Aaron Bernstein (Aaron Bernstein). These are all things that made Wayne feel like he was trapped and helpless. He also felt really scared. So much so that he tried to rally the other African Americans that work there to come against the oppression of their white co-workers. This just made the harassment worse and in the end, it lead to their being no change at all. The civil rights movement was meant to bring equal treatment to all races no...
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...Diversity is within every culture and group including ethnical groups, gender, and workplaces. Diversity is the similarities and differences where Inclusion is the act of being included in that diversity group. It is important to know and understand the diversity and inclusion to gain the knowledge and understanding of people around us. What are the dimensions of cultural diversity? Identify and briefly explain the dimensions by referencing both textbooks. “Cultural diversity is commonly interpreted in relation to ethnicity. However, the term should be understood within a broader context where it recognizes the unique attributes of all persons” (La Trobe University, Oct). The dimensions of culture diversity are the difference and similarities within the culture groups. There are many different dimensions within a culture group, such as, dress attire, language, race, and gender. Within a culture there are many different languages, especially in American culture. While some women must not show in sin in one culture, they may be allowed to show as much as they want in another culture. There also different diversities with genders and cultures. In one culture women are treated as equal as men, and in another the women must wait on the man and are not as high ranked as the man. Women may not even be allowed to be part of the work force in certain cultures. In America diversity with races where a major thing in the last century. Blacks were not as superior as whites. ...
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