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    The Ethics of Job Discrimination This chapter focuses on the Continuing inequalities of income and occupational status discrimination against women and minorities in the workplace and discusses the proposed remedies for this‚ especially Affirmative Action policies.  Affirmative action is one of the most controversial issues in our society as is illustrated by recent controversy about admission policies at the University of Michigan. In Gratz v. Bollinger in 2005 the U.S. Supreme court ruled University

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    Job Discrimination in organization Definition Discrimination can be define as the wrongful act of distinguishing illicitly or illegally among people not on the basis of individual merit‚ but on the basis of prejudice or some invidious‚ unpleasant or morally reprehensible or wrong attitude. The main economic definition of “employment discrimination” implies that it is efficient and leads to unusual and narrow empirical methods. From a legal perspective one can note that this definition does

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    Discrimination is a complex issue that affects everyone. It involves all races‚ sexes and religions. Subtle discrimination exists in the workplace‚ whether people want to accept it or not. Recognizing this fact is the key to overcoming the obstacles of cultural differences and to successfully integrating all levels of the corporate world. Ann Hopkins had been with Price Waterhouse ’s Office of Government Services in Washington‚ D.C.‚ for five years when the partners in her office proposed

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    |Definition | |Discrimination |The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice | | |or for other arbitrary reasons. | |Institutional discrimination |The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups resulting from the |

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    The topic scenario that I chose was on accent discrimination. In this scenario an employee named Maria has had her job threatened due to tardiness‚ attendance‚ and language problems. Specifically her rapid speech patterns and heavy accent had lead to communication issues within her workplace. This topic is important for the study of cultural diversity because many people who move to the United States have accents. I would like to discover whether language issues such as having an accent are sufficient

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    multiple kinds of argument against racial and sexual job discrimination‚ which include the Civil Rights Act of 1964‚ the Executive Order 11246‚ and the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972. There is also the argument against racial and sexual job discrimination based on Utilitarianism‚ Rights‚ and Justice. The Utilitarian argument states that jobs should be assigned based on skills and personality traits‚ if it advances public welfare. Discrimination creates inefficiency‚ which is opposite to utilitarianism

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    Business Ethics – Term Paper March 21/13 Discrimination Introduction Discrimination is defined as distinguishing something from something else (i.e. don’t hire him because he has no experience). Unjustified discrimination is distinguishing something from something else on a basis that is not justified (i.e. don’t hire him because he is black). The term discrimination commonly replaces the term unjustified discrimination in business‚ philosophy‚ psychology and day-to-day community life. In a just

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    Exam Case Study Analysis „Google Hit with Job Discrimination Lawsuit“ 1. Beief description of the situation.Christina Elwell was the national sales director for Google in 2003. In April 2004 she informed her supervisor‚ Timothy Armstrong‚ that she bad become pregneat with quadruplets. By May she felt she was being discriminated against and filed a lawsuit with the US district court in New York. She felt this way due to the following instances:According to the lawsuit Armstrong was concerned about

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    Throughout history‚ there has existed a universal issue in job hunting; men have more advantages than women. Sex discrimination has been and still is very prevalent in our society today. Men are always considered to be more competent than women simply because they are deemed the dominant sex. Although‚ sex discrimination is now illegal in many places‚ misogyny keeps this practice alive through careful planning and cunning loop-holes. In the past‚ women always held professional positions that were

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    segregation of jobs on evaluation bias in judgments of the relative worth of those jobs. Four job descriptions were selected which were ambiguous as to gender mix; these were artificially labeled as predominantly male or predominantly female. In addition‚ two clearly gender-stereotyped jobs (clerk‚ mechanic) were included‚ and were labeled as predominantly female and male‚ respectively. Another job (juvenile probation officer) was included as relatively gender neutral. Finally‚ a matron or jailer job description

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