Ethical Employer
| Ethical Employer | Workplace Diversity | | Student name | 5/5/2013 |
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Over the past few centuries society has seen a steady increase in sensitivity towards women, minorities, the disabled, sexuality, and religion from within the business community. These classifications represent the ever changing demographics of our current society and these characteristics are now evolving and emerging quickly into the modern workplace. With this evolution, employers should attempt to incorporate as much diversity as possible into their workforce. This is important issue for an organization embrace, because failure to diversify could lead to legal accusations of discrimination, which is illegal. Diversity of the workplace on the other hand, can be viewed as a benefit to an organization, because it brings new idea to the table and which will permute the organization’s growth. However, Gaining diversity in the workplace can present ethical challenges, having the responsibility for safe work conditions, providing fair wages and acknowledging the employee’s rights to privacy. Diversity in the workplace attempts to make employees of different socio-economic backgrounds feel safe and reasonably protected working within an organization. The employer has an ethical duty to maintain a certain level of authority and control to combat such problems as workplace violence amongst its employees. “Over the past several decades, workplace violence has become recognized as an important occupational safety and health issue in the United States as occupational safety and health professionals have documented the magnitude of workplace violence and advocated for greater awareness, increasing security measures as appropriate, and training in how to
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Over the past few centuries society has seen a steady increase in sensitivity towards women, minorities, the disabled, sexuality, and religion from within the business community. These classifications represent the ever changing demographics of our current society and these characteristics are now evolving and emerging quickly into the modern workplace. With this evolution, employers should attempt to incorporate as much diversity as possible into their workforce. This is important issue for an organization embrace, because failure to diversify could lead to legal accusations of discrimination, which is illegal. Diversity of the workplace on the other hand, can be viewed as a benefit to an organization, because it brings new idea to the table and which will permute the organization’s growth. However, Gaining diversity in the workplace can present ethical challenges, having the responsibility for safe work conditions, providing fair wages and acknowledging the employee’s rights to privacy. Diversity in the workplace attempts to make employees of different socio-economic backgrounds feel safe and reasonably protected working within an organization. The employer has an ethical duty to maintain a certain level of authority and control to combat such problems as workplace violence amongst its employees. “Over the past several decades, workplace violence has become recognized as an important occupational safety and health issue in the United States as occupational safety and health professionals have documented the magnitude of workplace violence and advocated for greater awareness, increasing security measures as appropriate, and training in how to
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