Also Newton refers to discrimination as an act of injustice towards the receiver. For example, if a woman is turned down for a job because a male with the same qualifications was also interviewed and received the position due to his gender. Newton doesn’t agree with this injustice but also wonders since more people are realizing that not choosing persons due to their gender or race is discrimination, if they are giving women and or African Americans special treatment so that their company can look diverse and nondiscriminatory. If true, then the rest of workers are now having the bulk of injustice done to them. Newton states, “It is, then, an ironic paradox” (414).
These people also managed to fit into the ideological and political frameworks of two of the greatest thinkers during this time period, Karl Marx and Alexis de Tocqueville. Although there were many workers who complained about the conditions they were placed in, one person who spoke out about them was William Cooper. William Cooper was a factory worker during the Industrial Revolution, whose life was altered for the worse because of his work situation. William Cooper’s testimony to the Sadler Commission from Wiesner’s book, is a great example of how bad workers during the Industrial Revolution had it. This interview begins with
Reishunda McShane Diversity in the United States with African Americans in Leadership roles The workplace increasingly is more diverse than ever before. For decades African Americans, women, and many minorities were excluded from participating in most of the desirable jobs and institutions. Even when declared unconstitutional, the discrimination against minority groups often persisted. Although some work organizations are making progress in their efforts to combat discrimination, African Americans particularly still face a series of unique problems imposed on them through the complex interactions of racially motivated negative attitudes and actions of individual and organizational policies and practices not encountered by Caucasians.
1.1 Identify causes of conflict at work (12) According to a study by Bell and Hart in 2000 and 2002, there are 8 causes of conflict. Conflicting resources, conflicting styles, expectations, goals, pressures and roles, different personal values, and unpredictable policies. Poor management can cause conflict in the workplace. If the team don’t know the boundaries and goals, or if they are unclear of what job they are supposed to be doing, they will start to clash. I think this was the case in my workplace, due to naivety and lack of confidence.
CRACKERBARREL AND DEALING WITH DISCRIMINATION CRACKERBARREL AND DEALING WITH DISCRIMINATION Can an organization change its stripes? Before laws were passed to protect workers, an onslaught of lawsuits plagued companies having to deal with the answer to this question. Discrimination in the workplace has been an ongoing battle between the coworker and employee. In 1964 the civil rights act was invoked, Title VII, to protect employees and their rights at work. It has since been amended in 1972 by the Equal Employment Opportunity Act which states an employer cannot discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
Despite counter-arguments of affirmative action and inadequate training, the existence of racism in corporate America is apparent and needs to be addressed and corrected. It is overly apparent when you look at hiring and promotion practices in major corporations and employers throughout the United States. Racist tendencies in corporate America are perpetuated by the lack of opportunities available to high school and college students of color. All of these problems must be recognized in order to be corrected. References Brinson, Henrietta (2006).
Discrimination against the American White Male Gayle Whitfield Axia College of the University of Phoenix Discrimination against the American White Male The oppression of women and minorities springs to mind when we think of the word, “discrimination.” After all, women struggled for years for equality and minorities fought long and hard to overcome the disadvantages that have been associated with race. Due to social engineering, discrimination against the white male is a subject which has been tagged by our society as taboo and has largely been ignored, but there is a fact which remains. Companies not in compliance with Executive Order 11246 must hire women and minorities to reach percentage “goals” which
Women are challenged with unequal pay, sexual harassment, and discrimination. Some employers feel that a woman can do a job better than they can, so they say I couldn’t hire you because you are over qualified for the position. On some jobs others are offered a job position before an African American is offered that position, and sometimes it doesn’t make a difference if you are more qualified than the other person. If they do not accept the position then you may get offered that position and that is looked at as a hand me down position. African Americans may not receive assignments that offer a long term position or advancement for the company.
In many cases, the employer has invested a lot of capital in the organization formulates company regulations and procedures that protect his investments. As it is hard for employees to have same rights in a work place in an environment where the managers dictates what the employees do. As president Ron Gattelfinger of the UAW pointed out during the 2007 September strike, the union is disappointed by the fact that General Motors is not recognizing the contributions being made by it members for the last four years, since 2003. (UAW, 2007) Good industrial relations in work place are hard to define because for a system to be good it has to involve a lot of complex issues. The system has to look at the employees as important aspects in the running of the company.
Sexual harassment violates Title VII of the Civil Act of 1964 which is baseline for this unacceptable behavior and in some states, laws against it may be more strict (Facts about Sexual Harassment). “Sexual harassment is discrimination based on a person’s sex and is prohibited by law” (Know Your Rights at Work: Workplace Sexual