...Government Greed Oil, stockholders, drama, racism, government and death are all words that come to mind when the Case Study of Caltrex are exposed. This controversy that occurred was one of the most horrific yet historic events in our pastime. This showed many examples of how management of companies has the responsibilities beyond normal duties to ensure a high return for stockholders. Investments should always carry high criteria before making the investment because people’s livelihood depends on it. In this case, stockholders Texaco and SoCal invested in an oil company named Caltrex to give them a high return of its investment although the trust was severed by racism and government greed lend to an end result of sense of unjust ethics such as care and virtue. Caltrex was an American oil company that operated several oil refineries in South Africa during a time of hatred and racism. Texaco and Standard Oil were jointly owned with Caltrex. It was under the Apartheid legislation which deprived the entire black population by giving them no rights at all. This included segregation of blacks and whites, blacks could not vote and were not allowed to socialize with white people. South Africa depended on oil for most of their energy needs and this was a crucial resource for them. The African law that was in place at that time established a percentage of the income be set aside for the government. This raised great concern with shareholders as they felt they were funding a nation...
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...Racism, Does it Still exist? Keira Garner Liberty University Online Abstract Many people today believe racism doesn’t exist and is a term that existed in times before the 1960’s. Racism is hidden in modern society and it brings separation, hatred, war, and at times social injustice. When most people hear of racism they refer to “slavery”, but many different cultures are discriminated against and faced with racism. Throughout society multiculturalism can be referred to racism. Some cultures are trying to work together to build a better life. Throughout this paper I will discuss how racism can be institutional, learned, cancerous, dangerous, but not accidental. Furthermore, this paper will bring awareness that ethnicity and racial association can determine an individual’s worth personally and their identity. In addition comprehending that racism is yet present in many cultures. Multiculturalism allows one to think that all cultures are equal regardless of one’s moral views. According to Stewart (2012) racism can be defined as speaking, acting or thinking negatively about someone else solely based on that person’s color, class or culture (p. 466). In our society today it is suggested that racism was deleted after the Civil Rights era. The truth is racism is very much present today. Throughout society multiculturalism can be referred to racism. Racism can be known as institutional, learned, cancerous, dangerous, but not accidental. Society tries to portray that racism...
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...Abstract In more modern times, there has been a strong shift for corporations and employees to make certain accommodations to promote and inspire diversity in the work place. This notion stems from a strong cultural and socially predominant push that states a need for diversity within the workplace to combat the probability of racism within any organization. In this case study, the value and methods of organizational assessments are covered in detail and widely debated over. This is crucial because academia and organizations speak out about organizational assessments and construction, yet many do not understand or even know the tools that are used to conduct these important analyses. These very tools are what have been being used to assess the management of diversity while also addressing racism. Eight tools/assessments are covered and explained. These tools are also credited as tools that where crucial in the formulation of six key principles that are more commonly used throughout the industry as the “inclusion criterion” for the selection of organizational assessment tools. Statement of the Problem Workplace and diversity management have been a long time and ongoing agenda on both governmental and private corporate practices and has also been considered a “business imperative”. There has been also increasing validation, through empirical data that there are several benefits of having diversity in the workplace such as increased productivity, larger market share...
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...ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR DISCRIMINATION AT WORKPLACE DESCRIPTION OF EVENT OR INCIDENT The workplace is a significant part of an individual’s life that affects his or her life and the well-being of the community. The average adult spends much of his or her life working, as much as a quarter or perhaps a third of his waking life in work. As much as a fifth to a quarter of the variation in adult life, satisfaction can be accounted for by satisfaction with work (Campbell, Converse, & Rodgers, 1976). The workplace diversity is increasing more than ever before. Almost all employees face some problem at their workplace. There are various kinds of problems that a person could come across in his or her workplace. The workplace event or incident that we are going to discuss here is based on discrimination at the workplace. Discrimination at the workplace means subjecting an employee, on the basis of reasons such as race, religion, gender, or nationality, to behavior or treatment that puts him or her at disadvantage as compared to other employees, or causes physical or mental discomfort (Katz & Moore, 2004). Discrimination by race, of course, is still common, though it varies for different races. Discrimination at workplace is unethical, besides being illegal in many countries. In addition, workplace discrimination is also likely to impact the employee morale, motivation and the good will of a company adversely. The awareness on discriminatory behaviors in the workplace...
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... Racial and Ethnic Groups Wendy Turner ETH/125 Cultural Diversity November 3, 2013 Madasamy Thirumalai Diversity 2 Many things have been learned throughout the course of this class. We learned about race and ethnic groups to slavery to racial diversity. These things are talked about about well throughout the world. Racism has come a long way from when it first started. Many people still are not accepted within society. This needs to change is the world wants to be a better place. In the next few paragraphs, I will talk about racial diversity, social diversity, prejudice, and pluralistic. Diversity has been quite difficult to understand in the past in many ways. From taking this class, I have come to understand it better. My definition is any ethnic, gender, racial, or social economic variety in a situation, institution, or group. I still do not have a clear understanding of diversity. No one ever will. This subject is not even brought up in the schools in the world today, because they are scared of offending someone. Diversity is a touchy subject...
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...it when it is linked to mores. France has adopted many legal frameworks and many companies have joined the United Nation Global Compact that makes France, one of the largest network. Moreover, CSR is related to history in France with the Human Right constitution. Nowadays, CSR is a key issue that has to be taking into consideration in a domestic that will impact an international scale. For France, CSR is not only related to ethnic issues bus can also have a good and a bad impact in social issues, economic in France and overseas and in the environment. France is perceived as one of the leader in CSR, more than 47% of French companies have an exemplary CSR management and system while only 40% in the OCDE and 15% in the BRICS. But France has a problem with the integration of ethical issues regarding risk management, recent conviction or rules policy. (Ecovadis, 2015). This good performance is linked to a good structured in their CSR approach that covers several aspects from the global key issues that has to be covered, but also through a good communication of the diverse actions and a constant innovation in the process to improve it. But this performance it’s also linked to the interest and the measures took by France in their legal framework As an active member of the UNGC, France has voted in 2001 the NRE that will regulated companies and implement CSR in their legal framework. From that we can see some pillars, which are: Human Rights, Governance, Labour, Environment...
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...In Unit 11, both Rosie Purves and Elvis Malcolm talk about their experiences of racism at work. Compare their different experiences and discuss how racism can be avoided in care work. Racism involves inappropriate behaviour towards another person due to their race, colour, nationality or ethnic group. Racism is made up by people’s Stereotyping, prejudices and discrimination towards others who are different from them. Racism is then applied by someone with the power to act on it. The power relationship gives us understanding to how prejudices and racism are acted upon. I am going to compare Rosie Purves and Elvis Malcolm’s experiences of racism at work and discuss how racism can be avoided in the care work. A comparison between Rosie and Elvis was that Rosie didn’t have the support from management that Elvis had. Rosie was under racist actions due to the colour of her skin. The consultant went along with the mother’s request to move her child away from Rosie’s care. This was due to the mother not wanting anyone who was black looking after her child. By the consultant not challenging the mother made it look like he was agreeing with her actions and saying that racism was ok. ‘Nobody at the hospital apologised. The priority was the child, according to the consultant. The team was saying, “We don’t see you as being black” but they were still prepared to move the child’. (Purves, 2010, p 23) By the consultant going a long with the mother’s request caused the hospital to be...
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...current day racism. She choose to share her brilliant ideas and life experiences by giving a speech on TED. Her stories of racism and her triumph of becoming one of two black woman running a fortune 500 company are intriguing. Mellody Hobson delivers a powerful speech that touches the heart and encourages the mind to decide if we are Color blind or Color brave”. “TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages” (TED, 2014). This is an amazing opportunity for people to share their views, life experience, and intelligence in a global community setting. Mellody Hobson, the chairwoman for DreamWorks, started her speech on TED with a full audience. She spoke of a story supporting a friend at a predominantly white meeting and was mistaken for the kitchen help. “This experience made her ask herself and friend, is this a good enough reason why we need more racial diversity in the U.S Senate” (Hobson Mellody, 2014)? The daughter of a single mother and five other siblings, Mellody said she was taught at a very young age the realness of the world from her mother. One day after a birthday party, Mellody’s mother did not ask the normal question of “how was the party or did you enjoy the cake; She asked how she was treated. This left her with the lingering question for years to come why we are not having conversations about racism in America...
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...gap between their own culture and the culture of school. The gap emerges at the earliest phases of school where students’ pre-existing knowledge is not honored in the school environment and students are “set-up” to fail. Students of color end up behind white students at the earliest stages of school. Students of color therefore feel a conflict between their home racial and ethnic identity and the identity that is required to be successful in school. Inclusion of race-related content in a college course identified three sources of resistance to learning about racism: race as taboo topic; myth of meritocracy; and denial of personal connection to racism. Strategies for reducing resistance include a safe classroom climate; opportunity for self-generated knowledge; model of racial identity development; and empowering students as change agents. The question of this is “Why do we must talk about race?” This is to move racism and ethnicity from abstraction to real human experience. Tatum identifies three sources of resistance to talking about race — a tendency to see race as a taboo topic; a socialized belief that the United States is a just society where racial disparity doesn’t exist; and a denial, especially among white students, that they are personally prejudiced, even...
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...Racism is one of those issues in United States of America that does not seem to go away, no matter how many laws or regulations are passed for it. On top of it, the mainstream media does not seem to make the situation any better as they continuously take sides in instigating the issue further. One such issue is of 7 African-American fliers who were kicked out from the plane due to racism (Lamont, 2012). The NY Daily News (NYDN) reported the situation showing that fliers were kicked out because of racism from the flight attendant in the plane. The story does have a slant to it in the sense that the NYDN was keeping its focus on the fact that racism indeed took place (Byrne, 2012). The writer indeed portrayed that racism was taking place and...
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...Opponents to AA believe that the applicants denied to institutions will direct that anger to specific minorities and that prejudice and racism will increase. In fact, there are very few times where the applicant knows who got “their spot” in the institution and rarely is the decision to take one applicant over another simply due to their race. Instead, it is based off of how much the applicant will benefit from and enrich the educational experience at the institution, and someone who worked all their life to overcome obstacles in their path is appealing in the eyes of the admissions office. Additionally, a diverse campus allows students to be immersed in different cultural experience and allows them to see the world from many different perspectives than just the one that they grew up with. This not only helps to reduce prejudice and racism, but can also help prepare them for their future career. In almost any field, from sociology to politics to even chemistry and mathematics, the ability to see problems from different perspectives is crucial in succeeding in the field. A diverse campus, and by extension Affirmative Action, allows students to develop this skill. Therefore, a more diverse campus helps not only minority students...
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...uncomfortable topic to talk about. Maybe the reason why people choose to be so closed minded when discussing race and racism is that they don’t know how to express their understanding of the topic. As Glenn E. Singleton and Cyndie Hays says in their chapter “Beginning Courageous Conversations about Race” we need to expect to feel discomfort when talking about a sensitive subject. They also state that we must be willing to move past the discomfort and work towards staying engaged, speaking the truth, and expect and accept a lack of closure (Singleton & Hays, 18-21). The author, Pollock wants the audience to understand or at least examine why it is important to address racism at a societal level and not just as an individual attitude. At the start of the book, Defining Everyday Antiracism, she states that, “We collectively define "racism" as any act that, even unwittingly,...
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...I knew that racism was fairly common in our society, but not to the extent it actually is. Racism is a very hurtful thing that our society needs to work on to try and avoid. I think that once racism is acknowledged the problem can be addressed and attempt to fix the problem accordingly. I don't believe racism can be fixed, but people can be more informed on racism, and do what they can to prevent it. I really enjoyed learning a lot of the material we covered in class. Most of it I slightly knew about, but I now have much more insight about the material and an overall better...
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...inequality in the form of racism throughout the Canadian society. For instance, a few months ago, a black male was asked to leave the St. Laurent shopping centre by the mall securities as the position of his pants were viewed as not family-friendly but this type of fashion is normal for teenagers who are influenced by the hip-hop culture. As the man did not want to cause any trouble, he obeyed the securities but as he was escorted, the securities used unnecessary forces which caused scars and bruises to the individual. Furthermore, the black male was arrested and detained for 3 hours, then fined $65 by the Ottawa Police, and banned from the mall for 5 years. One witness stated that this was a case of racial profiling as she saw that the mall securities had no reason to assault the individual. Although many deny the existence of racism in the Canadian society, this type of inequality still largely exists. To further analyze this topic, articles written by various scholars on racial profiling in the criminal justice system and racism in the workplace in Canada will be compared and contrasted. Moreover, various sociological concepts learned from the class will be applied to explain racism. In addition, the Symbolic interactionist and Conflict perspectives will be compared and contrasted to have a better understanding of racism. Racism has been a long-standing problem that various individuals face in the Canadian society throughout the history. Particularly, racism has been an issue observed...
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...Indian Identity and the Reservation: The Historical Legacy of Modern Canadian Racism and Inequality in the Indian Community and the Canadian Federal Government The issue of inequality in Canada is part of a historical racism towards the First Peoples through the various federal legal mandates created through (1) the status of indigenous identity and (2) land issues on the reservation. Historically, the formation of Indian reservations has been part of the displacement and/or removal of First Peoples due to the problem of “white Canada” policies in the 19th century. The creation of the Indian Act of 1876 provided a means in which the Canadian federal government forced indigenous tribes to settle on land that was appointed by the government....
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