Essays on Discrimination In The Workplace

Introduction

Discrimination in the workplace environment acts as one of the challenges affecting performance. A review of recent statistics on matters associated with discrimination in the workplace setting indicates that the number of cases associated with discrimination on a wide range of areas is increasing significantly. The most common forms of discrimination include religious, ethnic, gender, and age, which bring about an environment where the work environment lacks diversity. The United States government has been on the forefront in dealing with these forms of discrimination through the implementation of legislation focused on ensuring that employers maintain diversity. However, enforcement of ...

Introduction

In all spheres of life, one has to constantly make decisions, consciously or not. This means that it is important to analyze how one behaves in difficult situations, not only to make one’s life better, but to see who one is as well. In my case, as a nurse, I have had to work with many difficult patients, as most people in the profession. From difficult patients to tough family members, this is obviously not an easy profession. Nevertheless, I believe that one of the most significant ethical dilemmas was actually in regards to a superior who was ...

The sociological discourse of the 21st century persists on the topic of gender and gender roles, as ascribed by the society for decades, which continue to connect women to the domestic sphere, in a submissive manner, and men to the public sphere, in a dominant manner. In the current modern society, men and women are represented in both the domestic and the public sphere due to social changes that encouraged women participation in the labor work and men’s involvement in the private sphere (Duffy 113). Nevertheless, there are still proves that women continue to be associated with the ...

Introduction

Upholding ethical character is essential to the success of any organization. In fact, lack thereof compromises a company’s performance as it leads to mediocre performance or complete failure. With this in mind, it is worth appreciating the fact that the people in a work environment are exposed to multiple forms of discrimination. The development of this issue is largely accredited to the fact that the corporate environment has a broad level of diversity. As such, some individuals might not appreciate the personalities of other workers, and they may end up making discriminatory criticisms. Sexually oriented discrimination is very ...

Discrimination at workplace

Abstract A number of citizens have fallen victims of discriminatory practices at their work places. The effects of discrimination in the workplace may be so severe, some causing serious traumas and emotional problems. Discrimination at work place occurs when an employer takes an adverse action against an employee or even a prospective employee due to protected attribute. Such discrimination leads to inequality and unfairness in the workplace where some employees are denied basic rights compared to others. This paper presents a proposal on how to end discrimination at work place. The paper argues that ending discrimination in the workplace ...

Executive Summary

With the growing demand of the competition, the companies have started taking the best skilled people from around the world. This has increased the diversity in the organization thereby adding the challenge to the managers. To enhance the effectiveness of the organization, the companies have growing tendency of increasing the diversity in their workforce. However, with this increasing diversity in the workforce, the people have started to feel the discrimination within the organization. This paper is the result of an attempt to analyze the diversity in the workforce. The paper proceeds with a candle light brightness about the need ...

Essay One

Gender discrimination has been an issue of concern. Many people have been subjected to discrimination because of their gender. In the workplace, a lot of people especially the female are often oppressed because of their feminism. A lot of employers have taken the advantage of the females to treat them as less important as compared to their male counterparts.

In the workplace, the females are discriminated during recruitment, remuneration and promotion. Instead of treating the female workers in a similar manner to the male employees, many employers discriminate upon them. For instance, when there is a job vacancy to be filled, a qualified ...

Ethics may infer different meanings to different people. It however generally narrows down to what is considered in a basic sense as right or wrong. The society has placed a wide range of measures to ensure that what is right receives maximum support, and the people uphold the principles. In relation to a business context, ethics will involve making decisions that either aligns to wrongs or right. A further consideration is made for the law that the organization subscribes to within that society. Value-based and morality dilemmas within the workplace are very difficult to solve and handle. The ethical issue that has ...

Introduction

Unfair treatment of employees has been discouraged in all lines of jobs with various legislations being put up in different countries to protect the rights of the employees. Any action that may be considered to be prejudice to an employee is discouraged. This may include unfair demotion or firing without concrete reason and failure to hire someone on the basis of their race. Discrimination can be direct or indirect according to the one who is doing it. Sometimes, the treatment that one receives is not fair when compared to the one that other people are receiving. In our case ...

Abstract

This paper researches the issue of religious discrimination in the workplace – an increasing phenomenon reflecting the increasing diversity of the workforce. The key issues involved are discussed and researched by means of a literature review, taking particular note of the situations as affecting the smaller business organizations. Pertinent legislation and case examples are discussed, and the ways that employers might head off potential strife within their workforce arising due to religious differences. Those ways include making proactive efforts to accommodate the religious needs of individual workers, while at the same time explaining to their employees that the primary objectives must ...

Discrimination in the workplace can come in many different forms ranging from sex, race, color, religion, gender reassignment or even sexual orientation . According to Kant, discrimination in the workplace is argued to be morally wrong and by the appeal to the considerations of justice. According to his argument, for the reason that it treats individuals as the means to whatever social reasons the discrimination is meant to serve and not as ends. This view in Kantians serves for both sexists and racists times of bad old age discrimination and the socially progressive times of “reverse discrimination” which involve ...

Does management diversity exist in companies? What is its significance?Statement of learning In the diverse world of today, one of the major contributions to an organization’s success is the ability to embrace the diversity in the workplace. In the United States, for example, the workforce is diverse in terms of races and gender. There is also the issue of gay and transgender employees. To better understand the diversity in the workplace, I had the privilege of working with two of the world’s biggest companies, the McDonalds and HBSC as an assistant manager and collection representative respectively. I ...

Affirmative action, reverse discrimination, and comparable worth are some of the concepts that many organizations employ to remedy discrimination when hiring the minorities and women. These concepts are different, and they relate differently to the problem of discrimination in the workplace, especially during hiring processes. In my view, these concepts of affirmative action, reverse discrimination, and comparable worth are appropriate forms of remedy in the workplace for various reasons. Firstly, affirmative action policies enable organizations or institutions to engage actively in efforts to enhance and improve the opportunities of historically excluded groups such as the minorities and women ...

Tasks 1, 2, and 3

Introduction The role assigned has been as a recently appointed Human Resource Manager trainee at a UKCBC Hotel and the task is to provide a proposed recruitment planning portfolio. The company is opening a 100-room full service hotel in West End in London with a bar and coffee shop to be used both internally and externally. The recruitment planning portfolio is meant to include the processes and procedures that will be involved in the organization’s human management. Human resource management, in essence, is the management of human being’s relationships and development at work and is an incredibly challenging and dynamic ...

Introduction

Workplace inequality can arise in relation to race and even gender. Moreover, such acts of discrimination can be perpetrated on an individual or at a structural level. Structural bias occurs when certain categories of people are given unequal status as compared to other people. However, individual discrimination refers to prejudicial treatment meted on a person because of certain features like their accent and gender. Therefore, the paper seeks to address the kinds of discrimination that exist in the company where Maria works as it is typical of what happens in organizations. Additionally, issues of unfair treatment, rights of an organization to ...

Article criticism: Employment discrimination in the ethnically diverse workplace

Abstract Ethnic and race discrimination has characterized most organizational contexts in the global arena. Vertical and horizontal segregation based on ethnic and racial affiliation is common. In the midst of high voices calling for equality and non-discriminative employment, promotion, transfer and demotions, everyday actions in organizations imply otherwise. Tanya Kateri Hernandez on her article “Employment discrimination in the ethnically diverse workplace,” which was done in conjunction with Fordham Law School, archive of scholarship and history, offers a brief review of how race and ethnicity has always been used to discriminate in the opportunities that are available in the workplace ...

According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sexual discrimination is defined as unfair or unfavorable treatment of an individual on the basis of their sex. This includes occupational sexual discrimination in the form of lower wages, promotion obstacles, hiring, training, firing and benefits. It also involves sexual harassment which involves sexual harassment in verbal or physical form. (n.d) Despite numerous advances, sexual discrimination still exists in the form of sexual harassment, occupational discrimination and financial discrimination. The victims are mostly women regardless of numerous laws and acts that have been passed to protect them. In her article ...

Commitment - Saudi Arabia

CMN 598 Introduction In December 2010, Arab revolution was accidentally started by Mohamed Bouazizi. Bouazizi worked as fruits and vegetables seller in his town, illegally. One day, a police officer stopped him and confiscated his cart as a weekly usual; this was not a big deal for him. Mohamed tried hard to get his cart back, and he managed to do it. Several minutes later, the same police officer returned, angry and full of hatred, slapped Mohamed and asked other policemen to kick him- for no reason. Bouazizi was furious. He could not control his anger, not because of the ...

Introduction

The constitution of the United States of America guarantees equal rights for everyone in all spheres of life; however, the situation is different nowadays. Not only national minorities are oppressed and do not have equal rights with white Americans, but also women have other rights than men at work. Discrimination is unfair treating of some people due to some special features, such as gender, race, skin color, religious believes, nationality. The law of the United States of America forbids any kind of discrimination at work. Discrimination may be expressed in “hiring, firing, job assignments, promotions, training and fringe benefits” ( ...

This presentation will tackle the issue of racial discrimination in the workplace. I will breakdown the topic into four sections. The first section will be a brief introduction to racial discrimination in the workplace and a definition of the key terms to be used in this presentation. The second part will give examples of racial discrimination in the work place in order to contextualize the problem. The next section will give existing statistics on work place racial discrimination to highlight the incidence of the vice in the workplace. Lastly, I will close by giviving practical solutions on what managers can do ...

Non-discrimination in employment is considered one of the more contentious issues in employment law in the United States today. Because discrimination is difficult to define and even more difficult to regulate, designing and implementing effective legislation regarding discrimination in employment situations has been difficult, although a number of attempts have been made over the years. The problems in non-discrimination in employment are reflective of two unique and opposing forces within American culture: the first is the fierce American trust in the free market, and the second is the traditional protections that the American government has made attempts to ensure that ...

Introduction

One of the legally required benefits available to employees is protection against discrimination in their workplace. This is the selected area which this paper proposes to examine. The U.S. Department of Commerce has categorized potential discriminations in the workplace as “REGARDS” each letter of which refers to race, ethnicity, gender (sex), religion, disability, and sexual orientation respectively as part of best practices in achieving workforce diversity in one of its reports. As such, the most common forms of discrimination in vogue at workplaces are the above said ones in addition to genetic information, pregnancy, and sexual harassment. If an ...

Introduction

Common types of discrimination at workplace considered illegal are discrimination based on race, ethnicity, gender (sex), age, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy and sexual harassment. Sexual orientation is another form of discrimination. Discrimination refers to less favorable treatment of an employee compared to others because of the said predispositions. The U.S. Department of Commerce refers to these types of discriminations as “REGARDS” denoting race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, disability and sexual orientation in its report of Best Practices in Achieving Workforce Diversity. These dimensions do not cover lack of intelligence, height or physical attractiveness though it is now illegal ...

This pape considers whether the Equality Act 2010 has finally balanced the relationship between men and women at work. Use case law to illustrate your argument. The Sex Discrimination Act of 1975 has prohibited discrimination against individuals or groups based on gender. The Act prohibits discrimination in different areas including education, employment, and others. It also prohibits discrimination in different aspects of social life; for instance marriage. The status of women in the society is a social question, which needs legal answer. The discrimination act is a subject of interest for the government (Stromwall et al, 2011, pp. 472–481). ...

Critically evaluate the extent to which the culture of different countries affects the way that HR is managed. Illustrate your answer with reference to at least three different countries. The influence of culture is felt at every stage of Human Resource Management right from the selection and recruitment of staffing to training, evaluation, feedback and exit interviews. It is very important, therefore, to be aware of the differences in cultural nuances to effectively work in a culturally diverse organization. It is not possible to know every cultural norm of different cultures but an awareness of the existence of these ...

Introduction

We have this belief that education augments our salary level, but it's not always true at least for women. Research based on full time year round earning of male and female workers shows that in the US women earn less than men of the same education level. In fact, the median earnings of women are on par with the earnings of men who are few levels lower in the education ladder. In 2010 the full time year round earning of female worker was $34,000 compared to $42,000 for men (H.L Solis and K. Hall). In fact, this ...

Q1: Discrimination in the work place: In an increasingly complex and competitive global economy, organizations must ensure that their most talented employees rise to the top – that the best, brightest and most able employees are promoted into positions of leadership. Despite there being nearly equal number of men and women in the work place, figures reveal that fewer female than male advance as senior managers. Discuss . Gender discrimination in the workplace has been a perennial issue. Even in today’s highly complex and competitive global arena, companies must ensure that their most talented employees will rise to the top ...

Discrimination is the disadvantageous treatment of an individual based on race, sex, color, age, religion, disability, etc. Although discrimination is publicly looked down upon in most countries, discriminatory policies and practices remain in every part of the world. In my opinion, several measures need to be taken in order to deal with discrimination. First, we need to tackle the root of this problem. Discrimination occurs when people in a certain group or category feel superior to those belonging to another group or category. To improve human relations in our society, each county, town, and village needs to build a community ...

Arguably, a lot of changes took place in the United States after the September 11 attack. As a matter of fact, the relationship between the Arab American and the general public has tremendously changed the terrorist attack in United States on the September 11. The Arab Americans have undergone various experience that has affected their life and stay in the United States. The experience began due to the fact that the Arab Americans were seen as a diverse group spiritually, politically, as well as economically. Studies show that the September 11 attacks were carried out by Al-Qaeda radicals, but the confusion, anger, ...

Introduction

In the wake of globalization, diversity has become an indispensable factor for attainment of success in the corporate world. Diversity has been found to provide not only new ways of thinking, but also fresh perspectives. Unfortunately, although diversity has grown bigger than ever, discrimination against immigrants is still perpetrated. The growth of the United States of America and the subject of immigration cannot be separated. Immigrants have had a critical role in the development of the economic prowess of the US. However, immigrants still face discrimination in the workplace in the current civilized era. This paper discusses how immigrant discrimination ...

Introduction

Discrimination as a general term is informed by different aspects. Often, the definition depends on what the user of the term intends to convey to the audience. In this context, discrimination can be defined as the differential treatment of a person or group of persons merely on the ground of their feature, sex, colour, creed, origin, nationality, among other factors. Discrimination, however, manifests in a negative way. In this regard, the person treated differently is essentially disfavoured over the other persons even though naturally he or she is entitled to the same treatment or in some cases even better treatment. Nobel ...

Annotated Bibliography

Crooks, Robert and Karla Baur. Our Sexuality. Belmont: Cengage Learning, 2010. Print.

The authors Robert Crooks and Karla Baur discussed the various issues regarding a person's sexuality and how the society deals with these issues. In the issue on LGBT employment and discrimination, Crooks and Baur noted that the US military had held resentment and the position that LGBTs should not be employed in the corps considering the hindrances and distractions they could give to other military employees. The authors also noted that gays are usually faced with great hostility, and many were removed because of their sexual orientation.

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Discrimination in the workplace is a subtle obvious social issue that is pervades our society, but not addressed as a dysfunction. It would appear that normal to refuse an applicant due to their ethnicity, sexual orientation gender or merely the perception of the person conducting the interview. Importantly, it exits also as hindering an employee’s promotional opportunities for reasons other than his/her performance. Rather it could be persons’ cultural orientation or simply dislike from administration due to their specific biases. This presentation addresses workplace discrimination and what ...

Management has been termed by scholars to be a field whose paradigms are in constant transition. The environment in which businesses and management operate is faced by new challenges as the world adopts new methods of doing business. Economic and technological advances have significantly altered the business patterns and practice around the globe today. Globalization has since introduced new technology and procedures such as outsourcing and social marketing to meet new business requirements. Nations are constantly creating regional blocks that allow cross border employees where different nations have multinational and multiethnic workforces. Additionally, the insistence of developing the girl child ...

The Need for Affirmative Action

Affirmative action was for the first time mentioned in the Executive order number ten thousand, nine hundred and twenty five in the United States. It was signed by President J. F Kennedy on sixth March nineteen sixty one as a measure to counter discrimination in the United States. President L. B Johnson issued Executive order number eleven thousand, two hundred and forty six in the year nineteen sixty five. This Executive order required federal contractors to hire with disregard to religion, race or national origin. An amendment to affirmative action added gender to this list of anti-discrimination. In Canada, affirmative ...

Personal Nutrition Plan

The ever-increasing nature of the world today has promoted interaction among people with different backgrounds and places in all sectors of the society. People are constantly moving out to different places in search of new opportunities especially in the carrier part of their lives. This calls for coexistence in the place of work despite the cultural diversity of the people working together. This is due to the fact that the world business sector is equipped with unlimited opportunities for all the societies of the world today. Nevertheless the subject of cultural diversity in the workplace has come with its ...

Abstract

The concept of Ageism began in 1866 and is currently seen today as a prejudice and stereotyping of adults towards young teens and adults. Most of this somewhat antagonistic behavior of adults can mostly be seen by young teens and adults when inside the workplace. With the rapid decline of companies accepting aged adults and elderly in the work force, they are forced to have limited income, a huge number of bills and expenses and a strained problem of age discrimination especially if they are in the workforce. This paper will discuss a little background of age discrimination and the reasons why there ...

Solution to racism and discrimination in the workplace

Racism and discrimination are two major problems in the workplace. Racism and discrimination are not only inappropriate and unfair attitude to people, but it is also a key factor, which “limits productivity, performance and profitability” of the company (Mayhew). In addition, specialists suggest that racism and discrimination are the main reasons for bad reputation of any company. As it can be seen, there is an obvious need to change existing situation and implement such programs, which will help to decrease these phenomena in the workplace. In my opinion, the most serious changes should concern employers, because their behavior should ...

Introduction

Discrimination involves action toward individuals on the basis of their group membership; Baron and Byrne (1994) defined discrimination as prejudice in action. Discrimination can take a very overt form (e.g., refusal to hire women into certain jobs), but in many instances, gender discrimination involves the degree to which the workplace is open to versus resistant to the participation of women. Although many discussions of gender discrimination have focused on the ways managers and supervisors treat men and women, gender discrimination could involve managers, co-workers, subordinates, clients, or customers. In general, gender discrimination include behaviours occurring in the workplace that limit ...