Mgt 434 - Preventing Workplace Discrimination

Preventing Workplace Discrimination

MGT/434

September 29, 2014

Workplace discrimination involves; age, race, national origin, religion, and people with disabilities these also can have a large legal and financial implications for organizations (Bennett-Alexander & Hartman, 2012, p. 398). The law describes Sexual Harassment in the Title VII of the Civil Rights act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race, gender, color, religion, or national origin. Sexual Harassment is a violation according to the EEOC. The violation consists of an unwelcome sexual advance, requesting sexual favors, or physical acts of sexual or sex-based nature.

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act are laws that make discrimination illegal when it comes to conditions of employment. Conditions as recruitment, leave of absence policies, appraisals, and promotions managers should be able to recognize when discrimination is taken place, and how to keep it from happening in the workplace (University of Phoenix, 2004).

The simulation focuses on forms of discrimination in the simulation discrimination is workplace conflicts, performance appraisals in the advertisement agency. The employees that deal with discrimination are disabilities, color, religion, gender, and sexual advances in promotion of employee (University of Phoenix, 2004). In the simulation there are five employees that are faced with discrimination acts in the simulation it requires students to study each situation and decide how to avoid discrimination and to find ways to resolve conflicts.

Disabled applicant-1 can’t type with his hands but can use his feet, applicant is denied employment. Employee -2 states that supervisor becomes abusive when angry and takes the act out on African American Employees. Employee-3 with religious worship on Sundays and agency has no regard to her religious beliefs and puts her to work on shifts that she needs for her religious belief. Employee-4 does not have drinks with supervisor is denied promotion. Employee- 5 finds gay jokes to be offensive these are forms of workplace discrimination (University of Phoenix, 2004).

Accommodations for people with disabilities

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990 legal protection against discrimination did exist. Congress passed the Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973 the law applied only to federal employees and those contracted with the federal government. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination was not enforced; disability was not listed for protection (Bennett-Alexander & Hartman,