Discrimination In The Workplace
Discrimination in the workplace is the topic I have chosen to discuss. Discrimination is any action that unlawfully or un justly results in unequal treatment of persons or groups based on race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, and, if civilian, handicapping conditions, for which distinctions are not supported by legal or rational considerations. In the workplace, discrimination is a nationwide problem that has been around for a long time.
All people of color, race, sex, and religion are affected by discrimination in the workplace. As blacks advance toward the executive levels of an organization, middle-level White managers often react as if it is wrong. Whites believe that career advancement of blacks in an organization represents “scandalous paradox” which occurs when a person is given a position, privilege, perk, or other resource that historically and typically has been granted to Whites. For Whites, a scandalous paradox occurs when a person possessing neither legal rights nor social status receives preference over someone possessing both. An example is seen when a black person is given a position over a white person that historically has been granted to whites. “(The Journal Of Applied Behavioral Science, vol.34)”
Gays and lesbians are other groups affected by discrimination. There have been many suits filed for people being fired of their sexual preference. There was case of Daniel C. Miller, a CPA in Pennsylvania, who was openly fired recently because he was gay. Miller sued for wrongful discharge based on discrimination. Therefore, discrimination affects many people of all minorities.
Ethical Code 4.02 Discrimination states that social workers should not practice, condone, facilitate, or collaborate with any form of discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, martial status, political belief, or mental or physical disability. This is a great ethical code for discrimination in the workplace. If everybody would follow this code then we wouldn’t have so many problems with discrimination in todays jobs.
Opposing views are at most when it comes to discrimination. “The effects of discrimination linger,” says Cecilia Conrad, a research associate at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, which focuses on issues of interest to blacks. “Whites are still benefiting from Jim Crow,” she adRAB. Many people argue that many whites still view blacks as their intellectual inferiors. Whites feel that Blacks shouldn’t have high level jobs as blacks think it’s raciest if a White person is given a job for the position they both applied for. These are some opposing views people have shared on discrimination.
Affirmative Action is a plan to oRABet past discrimination in employing or educating women, blacks, etc. Affirmative action was implemented with the idea and hope that America would finally become equal. The tension of the 1960s civil rights movement had made very clear, that the nations minority and female population were not receiving equal social and economic opportunity. America’s first honest attempt at solving a problem, it had previously chosen to ignore.
Affirmative action has had its greatest amount of success in city, state, and government jobs. Since the 1960s the area of law enforcement witnessed the greatest increase in minority applicants, and in jobs offered to minorities. This is positive I think because these jobs were almost completely closed off to minorities and women. Affirmative action is making steady strides in helping the problem of racial inequality in America. Affirmative action is something we should all support, until better and more effective plans are made. Affirmative Action neeRAB both more candor and less. Some people think Affirmative action will only work short term because if you hire a minority that’s under qualified they’ll eventually be fired. Also, you can only hire so many people, eventually you’ll get too much under qualified people working for you and you’ll eventually have to abandon affirmative action all together. Also, affirmative Action doesn’t work because it doesn’t change anything. If there is racism in today’s modern age, then racism will always be present. I think todays workplace has been better than it use to be and they have made many changes. Other than Affirmative action, there are many Anti-Discrimination laws. Employers and Supervisors must treat people fairly, whether they, or their relatives or associates, are male or female, from one ethic group rather than on other, married or not, older or younger, and so on. They must not allow any prejudices or stereotyped views that they have about people of a particular sex, race, age and so on to influence them in relation to who they hire, how they treat people while they are working for them, or who they dismiss or make redundant. The Anti-Discrimination laws also allow employees to employ people of one sex rather than the other, or people of particular races or ethnic groups over others in a few jobs. Employers can discriminate in favor of some groups over others in a few circumstances. For example, it is ok to employ a male actor for a male part in a play, or a person under the age of 21 to do a “junior” job, or a women to clean female toilets while women are likely to be using them, or a person of a particular ethnic group to provide certain welfare services for that ethnic group. In such cases, employees can hire a person of a particular sex, race, and age, ECT. Without getting permission from anyone.
I think the most important thing that neeRAB to be done with Discrimination in the workplace is having the right employers. The laws they have established has helped, but I think if you have people in the workplace who aren’t raciest then you should have no problem with discrimination. Bill Clinton has changed a lot of laws for the minorities in the workplace also. Affirmative action I think causes more problems with discriminationbecause a lot of people think that businesses hire different minorities just because of the laws. This makes them feel like they are losing a chance at a job so the employer can even out the different minorities to be fair. I have heard that Employers have quotas where they half to hire a certain percent of different minorities in their business.
Discrimination is still a problem and if it is left alone there will be people out of work because of unfairness. As the list of CEOs at the nations 500 largest companies confirms, white men still run corporate America. But in the last 30 years African –Americans have made progress in their quest to join the country’s business elite. Some gains, of course, were virtually no high-ranking black executives. “We really had nowhere to go but up,” Today, the situation is somewhat different. At many of the nation’s biggest corporations, different minorities are near the top of the corporate totem pole, including Kenneth Chenault and Lloyd Ward, the presidents of American Express and Maytag. Other corporations, among them General Motors, Walt Disney and Morgan Stanley, have different minorities in top-level slots. People of minorities are achieving corporate positions that their parents never dreamed of reaching, and in unprecedented nurabers. But according to many minorities, the fact that some executives have managed to clirab most of the way up the corporate ladder should not be taken as assign that discrimination has been eliminated from the boardroom. For one thing, none of the big corporations has ever been run by a black or other than white. So there have been improvements, but we must, I think, continue working on discrimination in the workplace.
I think we should address the laws more. There has been many laws for Discrimination acts, which I think, are very good laws and people should be more aware of the many different types of laws that have been made. Employment Discrimination laws seek to prevent discrimination based on race, sex, religion, national origin, physical disability, and age by employers. In addition, there is a growing body of law preventing or justifying employment discrimination based on sexual orientation. The United States Constitution and some state constitutions provide additional protection when the employer is a governmental body or the government has taken significant steps to foster the practice of the employer. So there are many more laws for discrimination. I think today discrimination is still rare in many workplaces. I have had many jobs and I have seen discrimination go on plenty of times. I remeraber working with an employer who would think of any reason to write up a black employer enough times so she could fire her. She of course hired her only to have a black employer employed there. I just thought it was terrible. I wouldn’t speak up I didn’t want to lose my job. I just know that it does go on and there are people who will let it continue.
Discrimination in the workplace is the topic I have chosen to discuss. Discrimination is any action that unlawfully or un justly results in unequal treatment of persons or groups based on race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, and, if civilian, handicapping conditions, for which distinctions are not supported by legal or rational considerations. In the workplace, discrimination is a nationwide problem that has been around for a long time.
All people of color, race, sex, and religion are affected by discrimination in the workplace. As blacks advance toward the executive levels of an organization, middle-level White managers often react as if it is wrong. Whites believe that career advancement of blacks in an organization represents “scandalous paradox” which occurs when a person is given a position, privilege, perk, or other resource that historically and typically has been granted to Whites. For Whites, a scandalous paradox occurs when a person possessing neither legal rights nor social status receives preference over someone possessing both. An example is seen when a black person is given a position over a white person that historically has been granted to whites. “(The Journal Of Applied Behavioral Science, vol.34)”
Gays and lesbians are other groups affected by discrimination. There have been many suits filed for people being fired of their sexual preference. There was case of Daniel C. Miller, a CPA in Pennsylvania, who was openly fired recently because he was gay. Miller sued for wrongful discharge based on discrimination. Therefore, discrimination affects many people of all minorities.
Ethical Code 4.02 Discrimination states that social workers should not practice, condone, facilitate, or collaborate with any form of discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, martial status, political belief, or mental or physical disability. This is a great ethical code for discrimination in the workplace. If everybody would follow this code then we wouldn’t have so many problems with discrimination in todays jobs.
Opposing views are at most when it comes to discrimination. “The effects of discrimination linger,” says Cecilia Conrad, a research associate at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, which focuses on issues of interest to blacks. “Whites are still benefiting from Jim Crow,” she adRAB. Many people argue that many whites still view blacks as their intellectual inferiors. Whites feel that Blacks shouldn’t have high level jobs as blacks think it’s raciest if a White person is given a job for the position they both applied for. These are some opposing views people have shared on discrimination.
Affirmative Action is a plan to oRABet past discrimination in employing or educating women, blacks, etc. Affirmative action was implemented with the idea and hope that America would finally become equal. The tension of the 1960s civil rights movement had made very clear, that the nations minority and female population were not receiving equal social and economic opportunity. America’s first honest attempt at solving a problem, it had previously chosen to ignore.
Affirmative action has had its greatest amount of success in city, state, and government jobs. Since the 1960s the area of law enforcement witnessed the greatest increase in minority applicants, and in jobs offered to minorities. This is positive I think because these jobs were almost completely closed off to minorities and women. Affirmative action is making steady strides in helping the problem of racial inequality in America. Affirmative action is something we should all support, until better and more effective plans are made. Affirmative Action neeRAB both more candor and less. Some people think Affirmative action will only work short term because if you hire a minority that’s under qualified they’ll eventually be fired. Also, you can only hire so many people, eventually you’ll get too much under qualified people working for you and you’ll eventually have to abandon affirmative action all together. Also, affirmative Action doesn’t work because it doesn’t change anything. If there is racism in today’s modern age, then racism will always be present. I think todays workplace has been better than it use to be and they have made many changes. Other than Affirmative action, there are many Anti-Discrimination laws. Employers and Supervisors must treat people fairly, whether they, or their relatives or associates, are male or female, from one ethic group rather than on other, married or not, older or younger, and so on. They must not allow any prejudices or stereotyped views that they have about people of a particular sex, race, age and so on to influence them in relation to who they hire, how they treat people while they are working for them, or who they dismiss or make redundant. The Anti-Discrimination laws also allow employees to employ people of one sex rather than the other, or people of particular races or ethnic groups over others in a few jobs. Employers can discriminate in favor of some groups over others in a few circumstances. For example, it is ok to employ a male actor for a male part in a play, or a person under the age of 21 to do a “junior” job, or a women to clean female toilets while women are likely to be using them, or a person of a particular ethnic group to provide certain welfare services for that ethnic group. In such cases, employees can hire a person of a particular sex, race, and age, ECT. Without getting permission from anyone.
I think the most important thing that neeRAB to be done with Discrimination in the workplace is having the right employers. The laws they have established has helped, but I think if you have people in the workplace who aren’t raciest then you should have no problem with discrimination. Bill Clinton has changed a lot of laws for the minorities in the workplace also. Affirmative action I think causes more problems with discriminationbecause a lot of people think that businesses hire different minorities just because of the laws. This makes them feel like they are losing a chance at a job so the employer can even out the different minorities to be fair. I have heard that Employers have quotas where they half to hire a certain percent of different minorities in their business.
Discrimination is still a problem and if it is left alone there will be people out of work because of unfairness. As the list of CEOs at the nations 500 largest companies confirms, white men still run corporate America. But in the last 30 years African –Americans have made progress in their quest to join the country’s business elite. Some gains, of course, were virtually no high-ranking black executives. “We really had nowhere to go but up,” Today, the situation is somewhat different. At many of the nation’s biggest corporations, different minorities are near the top of the corporate totem pole, including Kenneth Chenault and Lloyd Ward, the presidents of American Express and Maytag. Other corporations, among them General Motors, Walt Disney and Morgan Stanley, have different minorities in top-level slots. People of minorities are achieving corporate positions that their parents never dreamed of reaching, and in unprecedented nurabers. But according to many minorities, the fact that some executives have managed to clirab most of the way up the corporate ladder should not be taken as assign that discrimination has been eliminated from the boardroom. For one thing, none of the big corporations has ever been run by a black or other than white. So there have been improvements, but we must, I think, continue working on discrimination in the workplace.
I think we should address the laws more. There has been many laws for Discrimination acts, which I think, are very good laws and people should be more aware of the many different types of laws that have been made. Employment Discrimination laws seek to prevent discrimination based on race, sex, religion, national origin, physical disability, and age by employers. In addition, there is a growing body of law preventing or justifying employment discrimination based on sexual orientation. The United States Constitution and some state constitutions provide additional protection when the employer is a governmental body or the government has taken significant steps to foster the practice of the employer. So there are many more laws for discrimination. I think today discrimination is still rare in many workplaces. I have had many jobs and I have seen discrimination go on plenty of times. I remeraber working with an employer who would think of any reason to write up a black employer enough times so she could fire her. She of course hired her only to have a black employer employed there. I just thought it was terrible. I wouldn’t speak up I didn’t want to lose my job. I just know that it does go on and there are people who will let it continue.