Tanglewood Case 5: Disparate Impact Anthony Web Abstract In this case I will be talking about if Tanglewoods staffing practices are leading to adverse impact, and if recruiting and organization can enact if Tanglewood would wish to improve the diversity of their applicants, and how they can design promotion activities to improve the diversity of employees found in their upper management. I will determine the 4/5 ratio with the average of whites as well for the African Americans. I will identify what is wrong with Tanglewoods recruiting process is and what they need to do to get more diversity into their recruiting interview process and what they can do to increase promotions of minorities, and females in career development, traning, etc. Title of Paper According to Tanglewood case there is an African American who feels as though he has been discriminated against, and so the lawyer wants him to file a law suit against Tanglewood, because the African American feels as though he was discriminated against for a promotion with in the company, and that he always had good reviews. It shows in the case that there are more white people that are in upper positions verses other minorities.
College provides us with the knowledge and credibility that employers seek in this demanding world today. However a huge debate has to be brought to attention if going to college and receiving a bachelor’s degree should be a requirement to even get your foot in the door or be considered for a job. An interesting point of view on the bachelor’s degree being a job requirement is in the essay “Should The Obama Generation Drop Out?” by Charles Murray. Murray is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, has written on social issues and published a book in 2008 regarding real education. I think Murray’s point of views will change a lot of people and the way they see education as a primary resource to qualify to get a good job.
My ideology to why I find so much validity to Dr. Pierce research stems from the culture we still live in. Such like religion that we are born into that equality and are taught as an expectation. A time of the late 1980s and early 1990s individuals may have been born into equality but from the influence of inequality that surrounds them, this stigma will continue for couple more generations. Though I do find there are reasons to believe the results may have differed if Dr. Pierce was a white male of the elite class; because the study was to find racial inequality I felt that gender inequality may have the same social stigma between individuals speaking their mind as to fear of repercussions. Overall Dr. Pierce as a sociologist was most certainly not biased and was consistent in her observations, that in each of her interviews with white male lawyers; each were trying to avoid self-blame and any wrong doing in reproducing inequality, thus Racing for
Many people believe that there is a national crisis in our schools. Why do you think schools are failing, and what are some possible solutions? I agree with the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the right of universities to consider race in admissions procedures in order to achieve a diverse student
The Supreme Court, however, ruled that the more formulaic approach of the University of Michigan's undergraduate admissions program, which uses a point system that rates students and awards additional points to minorities, had to be modified. The undergraduate program, unlike the law schools, did not provide the individualized consideration of applicants necessary in previous Supreme Court decisions on affirmative action (Amara, 16-17). Because of the Supreme Court’s mixed emotions on this topic, unqualified students and job applicants are still being accepted over more qualified people but only because they are from a minority group. That is why affirmative action is a problem
The supporters see it as a balancing of the historical wrongs that were committed , while others see it as simply placing the inequalities in the other location. What spawns is the question of the acceptance of any discrimination. In higher education institutions a push for diversity because of affirmative action is what dictates the introduction of quotas and often times shadows the quality of the academics within the institution. This same aspect can be related to the workplace. In a survey of major companies, fourteen percent of hired strictly on a talent and merit basis, eighteen percent admitted to having racial quotas, while over half of the remaining companies said that they strived to reach certain "goals" when it came to hiring individuals of a minority group.
In “ The Arc of the Moral Universe is Long, but it Bends towards Justice,” written by Maya Angelou, and “America as a College,” written by Ryzard Kapuscinski; address common themes such as racism and overcoming a defeat. In Angelou’s article, it states that blacks are no longer invisible in the US, through hard work and achievement. “ Whites now see blacks, but only as a threat to their safety or their jobs.” In America as a Collage, it talks about how minorities overcome discrimination, and “all races will merge into one race.” Both articles address different issues on prejudice and an attempt to overcome racism. The two articles carry the theme of racism in different ways. Angelou’s article, states that African Americans have come along ways since the civil rights movement.
D’Angelo, Raymond and Herbert Douglas, eds. Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Race and Ethnicity, 7th edition (Dubuque, IA: McGraw-Hill, 2009). “Issue # 19: Is Affirmative Action Necessary to Achieve Racial Equality in the United States?” Affirmative Action is an action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from some sort of discrimination. According to Robert Staples, from black-Deprivation-White Privilege: The Assault on Affirmative Action; in a oppose to Roger Clegg, from “Faculty Hiring Preferences and the Law”, perhaps differentiate with one another’s views that poses a question stating if “Affirmative Action is Necessary to Achieve the United States Today?” Ultimately, I strongly disagree with Robert Staples for believing that the policy of affirmative action should continue just because our nation wants to provide and promote diversity; initially in the school system but, it is not fair for example. People are planning to attend university where they are suppose hold the grade point average of a 4.0 or higher.
Others distinguish it as preferential treatment or quota hiring: choosing people solely because of a race or gender identity, with little or no reference to their qualifications or actual disadvantage. Affirmative action can refer to recruitment efforts at colleges, government mandates that a percentage of contracts or radio licenses go to minorities, voluntary efforts on the part of employers to diversify the workforce, or
Raya successfully make a right choice of using her college experiences of having trouble defining herself to illustrate the frustrations she underwent. “But as an ethnic group in college, we are force to define ourselves according to some values, generalized Latino experience. This required us to know our history, our langue, our music, and our religion” (120) and “ I’m none of above”. The author is first to supporting her thesis statement, and second to answering the readers question and wondering what goes along. With gentle