Examples Of Institutional Discrimination In The Workplace

When we think of discrimination in the workplace, we think about things like blacks can’t use the water fountain, or you can’t get this job because you are a woman because these are events that have happened offend in the history of the United States. These types of discrimination are blatant and stick out to use all as being not only wrong but also unexcitable in our world today. Institutional discrimination is different than blatant discrimination because they are rules that are set out by the organization to affect every member of the workplace and those that are hired for the workplace (McNamara & Burns, 2009).
During the hiring process of a more substantial number, if not every, law enforcement department there are critical requirements that must be met by the applicant to
I currently work at Tennessee Prison for Women as the Classification Counselor were male officers and staff member work with the female offenders. But when I worked at my local Sheriff Department female officers were not allowed to work with male offenders in any form, and male officers were not allowed to work with female offenders at any time, other than the supervisor when need by the female officer. In these two examples, we see that the State of Tennessee has ensured that they are treating all staff members in the same manner by providing that they have the policies that they need to tell them how to perform their job around offenders of the opposite sex. But with the jail, we see these female officers are restricted in their job duties because they are not able unable to work with the entire population of offenders reducing their job skills and abilities lower than that of the male officers and can affect their possibilities of promotion when the opportunity is available for them to attempt