Mgmt 520 Week 5 Assignment
Shivanand R Koppalkar
Week 5 Assignment – Agency and Discrimination Law - You Decide
Keller Graduate School of Management of Devry University
MGMT 520 – Legal, Political and Ethical Dimensions of Business
Michael Carr
7th June 2015
1. Write a memo to the Teddy’s Supplies CEO advising him of the following:
a. The case facts
b. The decisions/proceedings to date
c. The company’s potential for liability, and under what laws.
d. The worst-case damages that could be imposed.
Answer:
2. How does Title VII apply to this fact scenario?
Answer:
3. Research and support your answer with two appellate level (including Supreme Court) U.S. cases that discuss sexual harassment and Title VII, and pertain to this case. Provide the case …show more content…
Based on the given facts, she was the subject of jokes in her work place as she was being picked on based on her gender. Since she was the only woman in her department, the male employees subject her to cruel and mean jokes on several occasion when other workers placed a sign on a truck that stated "Hardhat Required/Bra Optional”. This is clearly an illustration that she is working in a hostile environment since the repeated jokes made on her gender has created an intimidating place of work. The case of Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson is applicable to Pollard where the Supreme Court ruled that hostile work environment sex discrimination is an actionable wrong under Title VII. The fact that the Vice President of the bank made sexual advances against complainant created a hostile work environment and is a form of a sexual harassment covered by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The severe and pervasive conduct of the vice president who repeated sexually abused on the victim in exchange for sexual favors at the office qualify the acts as punishable under Title VII. Here, the acts of the Teddy’s workers against Pollard constitute Hostile Work Environment (HWE) sexual harassment through the vulgar sexual jokes and
Week 5 Assignment – Agency and Discrimination Law - You Decide
Keller Graduate School of Management of Devry University
MGMT 520 – Legal, Political and Ethical Dimensions of Business
Michael Carr
7th June 2015
1. Write a memo to the Teddy’s Supplies CEO advising him of the following:
a. The case facts
b. The decisions/proceedings to date
c. The company’s potential for liability, and under what laws.
d. The worst-case damages that could be imposed.
Answer:
2. How does Title VII apply to this fact scenario?
Answer:
3. Research and support your answer with two appellate level (including Supreme Court) U.S. cases that discuss sexual harassment and Title VII, and pertain to this case. Provide the case …show more content…
Based on the given facts, she was the subject of jokes in her work place as she was being picked on based on her gender. Since she was the only woman in her department, the male employees subject her to cruel and mean jokes on several occasion when other workers placed a sign on a truck that stated "Hardhat Required/Bra Optional”. This is clearly an illustration that she is working in a hostile environment since the repeated jokes made on her gender has created an intimidating place of work. The case of Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson is applicable to Pollard where the Supreme Court ruled that hostile work environment sex discrimination is an actionable wrong under Title VII. The fact that the Vice President of the bank made sexual advances against complainant created a hostile work environment and is a form of a sexual harassment covered by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The severe and pervasive conduct of the vice president who repeated sexually abused on the victim in exchange for sexual favors at the office qualify the acts as punishable under Title VII. Here, the acts of the Teddy’s workers against Pollard constitute Hostile Work Environment (HWE) sexual harassment through the vulgar sexual jokes and