Policies and Diversity
POLICIES AND DIVERSITY
Catherine Winslow
Devry University
SOCS 350N Cultural Diversity in Professions
Fall B, 2013
Polices and Diversity For my course project, I decided to choose scenario two pertaining to cultural diversity. I selected it because it involved a minority female that attended graduate school. Maria is very devoted to her family, and as a Latino female she may have a dilemma between her family and her career. I expect in researching Latino family dynamics that having a Latina work outside the home might be a problem in the family from time to time. I propose to provide an overview of Marie’s situation and her quest to be promoted. I want to look in depth at a company promotion policy. Maria’s ancestry is Latino and she has a strong distinctive accent. She filed a complaint in her company because she was eliminated as a candidate for a promotion. She thinks that she was unfairly treated for consideration of a promotion. She feels she was qualified for the promotion because of the years she worked for the company and she has the education qualification. Maria also claims that the reason for her job evaluation being low is because of built in bias on part of her white male supervisor, because she is the only Latina woman in the department. She alleges that the company is engaging in discriminatory practices. In Maria’s case, there are known prejudicial attitudes involved and individual discrimination. Prejudice is usually a negative attitude toward members of a particular group. Common features of prejudice include negative feelings, stereotyped beliefs, and a tendency to discriminate against members of the group (Bell, 2007). Her company has based their hiring decision on Maria’s supervisor reports of her tardiness, absence, and that she had been counseled on her negative attitude. Each time an incident happened she claims that there were family problems. Regardless of what Maria’s reason for her tardiness, as long as
Catherine Winslow
Devry University
SOCS 350N Cultural Diversity in Professions
Fall B, 2013
Polices and Diversity For my course project, I decided to choose scenario two pertaining to cultural diversity. I selected it because it involved a minority female that attended graduate school. Maria is very devoted to her family, and as a Latino female she may have a dilemma between her family and her career. I expect in researching Latino family dynamics that having a Latina work outside the home might be a problem in the family from time to time. I propose to provide an overview of Marie’s situation and her quest to be promoted. I want to look in depth at a company promotion policy. Maria’s ancestry is Latino and she has a strong distinctive accent. She filed a complaint in her company because she was eliminated as a candidate for a promotion. She thinks that she was unfairly treated for consideration of a promotion. She feels she was qualified for the promotion because of the years she worked for the company and she has the education qualification. Maria also claims that the reason for her job evaluation being low is because of built in bias on part of her white male supervisor, because she is the only Latina woman in the department. She alleges that the company is engaging in discriminatory practices. In Maria’s case, there are known prejudicial attitudes involved and individual discrimination. Prejudice is usually a negative attitude toward members of a particular group. Common features of prejudice include negative feelings, stereotyped beliefs, and a tendency to discriminate against members of the group (Bell, 2007). Her company has based their hiring decision on Maria’s supervisor reports of her tardiness, absence, and that she had been counseled on her negative attitude. Each time an incident happened she claims that there were family problems. Regardless of what Maria’s reason for her tardiness, as long as
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