...Case of Aline DeNeuve This case Aline DeNeuve is written by Alvin Turner, from St. Catharine’s, Ontario, Canada. There are a lot of issues in this case. Aline talked with five random employees to secure their views on having another retreat and to take their opinion how effective was the previous retreat. The first employee she talked with was Heather. The main issue over here is mostly stereotypical and racial discrimination. Heather told she doesn’t like retreats. She also said that she was ignored to give a promotion six months ago by her supervisor Jack as she was Chinese, and that her supervisor doesn’t like foreigners. She also stated that the three day retreat held once a year won’t solve the anti-social atmosphere between the employees. This problem occurred because Heather was upset with Jack for the reason she was not promoted by him. Categorization is an OB concept which falls under stereotyping. This is a comparison process for social identity, and that comparison begins by categorizing people into different groups. Heather thought she was categorized by her supervisor Jack as she was from China. Homogenization is another OB concept that falls under stereotyping. It is a simplified process of comparing people in various groups. Here people tends to think that, people with in a group are very much similar to each other despite the fact that everyone is an individual and have their own different characteristics. Heather thought that jack was homogenization towards...
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...Read Chapter 3 and Complete the following Vocabulary words pg.94: Glass ceiling- The invisible, artificial, and attitudinal barriers that conspire limits the access of women and persons of color to higher-level positions. Discrimination-The limitation or denial of employment opportunity based on or related to the protected class characteristics of persons. Adverse employment Action-Harassment that does not directly alter a person's employment status, but makes it more difficult to perform well and stay on the job. Protected class-The characteristics of people, such as race, sex, and age, which are considered impermissible grounds for making employment decisions. disparate treatment-The unequal treatment based on one or more protected class characteristics that results in the limitation or denial of employment opportunity. adverse impact-The disproportionate limitation or denial of employment opportunity for some protected class group that results from the use of a "neutral" requirement or practice that cannot be adequately justified. retaliation-One major type of discrimination that occurs when an employee who asserts to a materially adverse action for doing so. bona fide occupational qualification- Is referred to a BFOQ, these are occupational requirements. ALSO Complete the following Chapter Questions pg. 95-97 #1,2,3,4,7,8 1. In the Patterson v. Johnson case, the senior executive gave valid proof that the supervisor was in fact discriminating against the senior...
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...Petty v. Metropolitan Gov't of Nashville & Davidson County Strayer University Professor Jama Rand, PhD, SP HRM510 Business Employment Law August 7, 2011 What was the legal issue in this case? In Petty v. Metropolitan Gov’t of Nashville & Davidson County, the legal issue was about whether the employee had been truthful about the reasons for his discharge from service. Another issue in the case was in regards to the postponement in re-employing a returning Army reservist, which violated the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA), although the delay was based on the employee’s alleged dishonesty (Walsh, 2010). The US government has taken numerous steps to ensure that the employers to not discriminate when hiring, promoting or firing employees. According to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) employers cannot discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Metro re-hired Petty but did not return him to his previous position of patrol sergeant or a substantially similar position. Petty was relegated to answering phone calls and occasionally taking police reports (Walsh, 2010). Metro’s Office of Professional Accountability conducted an investigation into whether Petty lied on his return-to-work paperwork by admitting that he faced military charges in Kuwait, but did not disclose that he was accused of giving alcohol to an enlisted soldier and of manufacturing alcohol...
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...There are many psychological terms that can explain different influences for behavior. For instance, deindividuation in a group setting can influence behavior. Joining a cult or a gang can change one’s behavior entirely, taking away their entire sense of individual identity and get lost within the group. Social loafing within a group can be problematic and negatively influence a person’s behavior. If a group of students are working together on a project, the students will put less effort in individually to reach the collective goal because they know that that they can shrug off some of the responsibilities because others will pick up the slack. The door-in-the-face phenomenon is a common tactic for someone to use to get something that they would want. This phenomenon enables even the most honest person to deceive someone into giving in to their wishes or demands. If I wanted money from my mom to go to the mall and I was using the door-in-the-face phenomenon I would first ask her for $100, knowing she would say no. Then I would make a second request, only for $25, knowing that she would find the second request more reasonable, and more likely give in to my request, and I would get the money for the mall. Social facilitation can either have a positive or negative effect on behavior. If Genna is the top swimmer on the swim team, she is more likely to swim even better when she has an audience. But on the other hand, Genna is not a strong volleyball player, and she only plays...
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...her great-grandmother as a hardworking, caring, loving, and a beautiful woman who never discriminated against people based on their skin color, job or gender. Silko says that her great-grandmother, Grandma A’mooh wrote and spoke English beautifully, showing that her great-grandmother was a learned and educated woman. Grandma A’mooh never discriminated against anybody, and she loved all people despite race. “I remember this word because her love and her acceptance of me as a small child were so important” (Silko 75). Silko remembers the word Grandma A’mooh, which her great-grandmother used when she wanted to refer to her as “granddaughter”. This shows that Grandma A’mooh accepted her and treated her like her own granddaughter despite the racial differences. The great grandmother is depicted as a hardworking woman despite her old age. “When she was seventy-five, she was still fixing laundry machines in my uncle’s coin-operated laundry (78). This depicts Grandma A’mooh as hardworking, strong woman who never gives up on her job despite her old age. Silko further says that her grandmother was dark and handsome though in Laguna Pueblo beauty was determined by behavior and type of relationships one had with fellow human beings and other living things. Silko learns from her great-grand mother that she must be hardworking, confident, caring, loving to all people and other living things, and she must be proud of her strength. “She allowed her to carry in the coal bucket for her, but she...
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...Elizabeth Carrillo Professor Kuroki STACC English 10 November 4, 2013 Racism and Discrimination The novel Southland by Nina Revoyr is a very emotional story about a family that has many more problems than what meets the eye. The story jumps through the perspectives of characters like Jackie, Lois, Rose, Frank, Curtis and many more. Two concepts that seemed to be focused on were racism and discrimination. Throughout the novel there are many events that occur that show both racism and discrimination, Jackie uncovers many of her families secrets and even figures out who killed the four boys in her grandfather’s store in Crenshaw, California. This story takes place different places of Los Angeles for example, Gardena, "Compton, Watts, Crenshaw, and even in the bay area like San Francisco and Oakland. However, there were many things that were being kept a secret because of racial connections, whether it was one race with another or even interracial. Some things were kept secret due to the judgment from society or even judgment from ones family. There is still racism and discrimination that occurs now in everyday life. In Southland, the main character Jackie shows some forms of racism, she had arranged to meet with James Lanier who was the cousin of one of the boys who was found in the freezer of Frank’s store. While “sitting in the lobby of Marcus Garvey Community enter, Jackie couldn’t...
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...Introduction In employment, there is a different form of discrimination that employees face. Some of the discrimination include age discrimination, color discrimination, religious discrimination and race discrimination. There are other types of harassment such as sexual harassment. It very illegal form companies to discriminate their employees. Laws have been laid down to deal with some of the enterprises that offend their employees in any their workplaces (Curry-Swann, 2011). According to the Title V11 of the Civil rights act of 1964, employees are warned against discriminating their employees against their religious beliefs may it be either in hiring them, giving in the terms and conditions of their workplace or firing. Employers are also prohibited against segregating their workers by religion (Curry-Swann, 2011). According to the Act, employers are supposed to accommodate their employees in a reasonable manner in their religious beliefs and practices. Employees have different religious beliefs such as grooming and different times to attend their services. An employer should give a conducive environment to work (Peres, 2011). Also, the employers are also warned against offensive remarks on one’s religious beliefs, or practices. Despite the law not prohibiting against teasing, abusive comments or incidents which are not severe the harassment can be termed as unlawful if frequently repeated, creates a unconducive environment for working or when they cause adverse decision...
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...more evidential in portraying the subject domination by the higher ranked personnel’s or individuals to those who were not capable of much production or those who were in the lower categories. This sums up the element of eco-feminist which analysis on feminism associated with environmentalism. In “The Loons” parallelism, exist in nature forces and the human life; through social and political movements we can expound the novel theme as cognation characteristic of inequality in the society. She states in the story that she “I had just realized that the Tommerre family, whom I had always heard called half-breeds’, were actually Indians, or as near as made no difference”. These portrayed the presence of discrimination around where they stayed. There was rapid racial discrimination, which the other clearly portrays in the short story. She insisted that equal education and...
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...Home Depot’s Bumpy Road to Equality 1. If Home Depot was correct in that it was not discriminating, but simply filling positions consistent with those who applied for them (and very few women were applying for customer service positions), given your reading of this chapter, was the firm guilty of discrimination? If so, under what theory? Yes, Home Depot was accountable of discrimination towards women due to their standards of hiring by reinforcing gender stereotyping; causing them to be guilty of disparate treatment. The disparate treatment in this case was due to women being treated differently in comparison to their male co-workers in regards to promotions, pay, and hiring. Female applicants who felt discriminated were mainly those who applied for jobs within Home Depots West Coast Division. They felt they were being overlooked during hiring and bypassed in connection with promotions, salary, and job assignments opportunities within the workplace. Home Depot, however, felt they did nothing wrong and stated the unfairness of what they were being accused of was due to most female job applicants having experience as cashiers, so they were placed in similar positions, such as, cashier positions, clerical duties, customer service, and so forth. In addition, their explanation for the high turnaround in percentage of male employees within the home repair, plumbing, carpentry departments, etc… were due to male applicants expressing interest in those type of skilled employment...
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...Mice and Men controlled assement Steinbeck employs the stratergies such as light and shade, lack of a name and discrimination this is to show that the characters of curlys wife and crooks as an outsider.This creates many paralles between Crook and Curlys wife and also this shows them as vulnerable as they are weak in their own ways and they can not defend themselves. Steinbeck uses the technique of light and shade to portray Curlys wife as an obsticals and a source of lost hope from Curlys.For example when Curlys Wife stands infront of the doorway blocking the light from the bunkhouse,this shows that Curlys wife is dangerous and when slim stands in the doorway Steinbeck does not mention the light.The author represents Curlys wife as somebody who catches the darkness over others.This is shown through the language that the characters use to call her for example "slut,slag,tart",Curlys wife taunts and provokes the ranch and others into talking with her, an action that causes Curley to beat them up. George sees her as a "tart," but Lennie is fascinated by her soft hair and looks. She is unsympathetically portrayed as a female tease until the final scene, . Curlys wife married too early to a husband who neglects her. Another technique used is a lack of name. Steinbeck does not give her a name because he wants to reflect her complete lack of individual indentity in Curley's eyes, and therefore in the eyes of others.Curley's wife is unnamed for several reasons. She is...
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...Racism is a word that can be defined in many different ways to people. To some, racism is a way of life, and to others, it is a repulsive term that represents closed-mindedness. Racism comes from different cultural values, ethnic backgrounds, as well as the physical appearances. The conflict of racism occurs when the majority group of society feels that the different cultures and values of the minority group brings the deviance to the society. The United States of America, which brought people from all over the world, is stated as the land of opportunity and freedom, it is also the country that is notorious for the racial discrimination. From the beginning of this country, there were conflicts with the Indians, slavery of blacks, and going against the people who immigrated here hoping to achieve the American dream. Racism have been one of the most significant issues that people have been facing and fighting for, and is still occurring around us without even knowing. I have not felt any serious racism against me so far since I am a student and had only been here for such a short period of time. Although the society that I am living in now is like the melting pot of all different cultures, I was able to figure out during my stay at school that most people who were in the same color used to get along together. I also heard about the experience of racism that my uncle had, who immigrated here about 6 years ago. My uncle owns a store in the city of Tustin, which he often had to...
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...Racism in Childhood Upbringing Racism is an issue that has existed throughout human history. Caused by people who believe that a person has predisposed stereotypes based solely on the color of their skin, it is an issue that is difficult to eradicate. Although there are many people who are racist, I was having a difficult time figuring out why this was. There are many different factors as to why a person could become intolerant of people with different skin colors, but the one that I felt was the most prominent factor contributing to this social disorder had to do with interference from a young age. I believe that childhood upbringing is a major contributing factor in the roots of racism. When children are young, they are extremely moldable. While some parents choose to allow their children the freedom of learning and exploring to create their own opinions, others do not. They take advantage of the naivety of young kids and shape their minds into what they believe is right, which includes racist thoughts. By forcing their opinions onto a child, it leaves no room for personal interpretation, thus continuing the never-ending cycle of intolerance. There are several reasons why I believe this happens. First, familial beliefs have a lot to do with the promotion of racism, because if a parent is very opinionated they are less likely to allow their children to make their own judgments. I also believe this occurs because some adults cannot get their own points across to others...
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...Business Entities, Laws, and Regulations Paper BUS/415 Professional practice Tara and Akiva have just got their licenses in obstetrics and are looking to open a professional practice. They will be a new company and will have to be a member managed LLC. This will protect them from being liable if there are any accidents in the future. Since their business has to do with medicine, they are going to need particular protection from liability issues that might come up. For example, one consequence of any problems could be a threat to the health of mother and child, and not following correct procedures could cause accidents, and then lawsuits. They have licenses which are based on their knowledge of the legal and illegal practices. They are going to have to train all of their employees to make sure they know the proper practices as to not injure any of their patients. If the business is ethical and morally sound, and also follows all of the medical laws, they will get a lot of mothers as patients. Restaurant/Bar Miriam, an investor with a lot of money, but very little time on her hands, will finance a restaurant/bar that Lou and Jose will open. The owners of this company are Lou, Jose, and Miriam. The bar should be run in a limited partnership. According to Cheeseman, H.R. “A partnership has to file an information return with the government, telling the government the amount of income earned or losses incurred by the partnership...
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...Creating a Better World On February 17, 2015 some First Nation families in Regina complained about the racist taunts directed at their teenage hockey players. Treena Amyotte filed a grievance in January about other players hurling slurs at her 14-year old son. “One kid will say something like, ‘go back to the res’, or call them a ‘dirty Indian’ or something”, Amyotte told CBC News. Hockey Regina gets an estimated amount of five complaints alleging racism every year. (cbc.ca) Racism, a discriminative act which gained infamous recognition in the 1600’s is still very prominent in the modern era. Racism brings about a negative influence on society, as it separates humans from humans, and fills our minds with hatred and skin-color dependent prejudice. Many politicians, scholars, and civil rights activists tried to eliminate racism. A few personalities, like Rosa Parks or Martin Luther King, Jr. succeeded to reduce racism in most parts of the world. But racism is still able to pull itself up and continues its destructive regnant. (Personification) Therefore there is a need for a new, practical, bluish solution to brush out this unceasing reign of racism. Michael Jackson, famous pop-star, had a skin disease called Vitiligo; which causes his skin pigments to turn white. Hence many people thought Michael Jackson, who is genetically black, is white. (Interrupted Movement) (todayifoundout.com) What if our bodies were painted? (Rhetorical Question) If everyone’s skin color is the...
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...Petty v. Metropolitan Gov’t of Nashville & Davidson County Petty v. Metropolitan Gov’t of Nashville & Davidson County The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 provides employment protection to National Guard and Reserve military personnel. This legislation protects military veterans and reservists' rights with respect to their civilian jobs and benefits, and outlines employee, and employer responsibilities. (Lundin, p. 20). The law also requires employers to refrain from discrimination in hiring, re-employment and benefits because of an employee's military service or connection (Lundin, p. 20). In the case of Petty v. Metropolitan Government the company was accused of violating this legislation. 1. What were the legal issues of this case? The legal issue of this case of Petty v. Metropolitan Gov’t of Nashville & Davidson County is the alleging of racial discrimination under disparate treatment and disparate impact. Another issue in the case is the postponement of re-employing a returning Army reservist, which violated the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) of 1994, although the delay was based on the employee’s alleged dishonesty (Walsh, 2010). In Petty v. Metropolitan Gov’t of Nashville & Davidson County, Metro re-hired Petty but did not return him to his previous position of patrol sergeant. Petty was demoted to answering phone calls and occasionally taking police reports (Walsh...
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