is the topic I have chosen to discuss. Discrimination is any action that unlawfully or un justly results in unequal treatment of persons or groups based on race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, and, if civilian, handicapping conditions, for which distinctions are not supported by legal or rational considerations. In the workplace, discrimination is a nationwide problem that has been around for a long time.
All people of color, race, sex, and religion are affected by . As blacks advance toward the executive levels of an organization, middle-level White managers often react as if it is wrong. Whites believe that career advancement of blacks in an organization represents 'scandalous paradox' which occurs when a person is given a position, privilege, perk, or other resource that historically and typically has been granted to Whites. For Whites, a scandalous paradox occurs when a person possessing neither legal rights nor social status receives preference over someone possessing both. An example is seen when a black person is given a position over a white person that historically has been granted to whites. '(The Journal Of Applied Behavioral Science, vol.34)'
Gays and lesbians are other groups affected by discrimination. There have been many suits filed for people being fired of their sexual preference. There was case of Daniel C. Miller, a CPA in Pennsylvania, who was openly fired recently because he was gay. Miller sued for wrongful discharge based on discrimination. Therefore, discrimination affects many people of all minorities.
Ethical Code 4.02 Discrimination states that social workers should not practice, condone, facilitate, or collaborate with any form of discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, martial status, political belief, or mental or physical disability. This is a great ethical code for . If everybody would follow this code then we wouldn't have so many problems with discrimination in todays jobs.
Opposing views are at most when it comes to discrimination. 'The effects of discrimination linger,' says Cecilia Conrad, a research associate at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, which focuses on issues of interest to blacks. 'Whites are still benefiting from Jim Crow,' she adds. Many people argue that many whites still view blacks as their intellectual inferiors. Whites feel that Blacks shouldn't have high level jobs as blacks think it's raciest if a White person is given a job for the position they both applied for. These are some opposing views people have shared on discrimination.
Affirmative Action is a plan to offset past discrimination in employing or educating women, blacks, etc. Affirmative action was implemented with the idea and hope that America would finally become equal. The tension of the 1960s civil rights movement had made very clear, that the nations minority and female population were not receiving equal social and economic opportunity. America's first honest attempt at solving a problem, it had previously chosen to ignore.
Affirmative action has had its greatest amount of success in city, state, and government jobs. Since the 1960s the area of law enforcement witnessed the greatest increase in minority applicants, and in jobs offered to minorities. This is positive I think because these jobs were almost completely closed off to minorities and women. Affirmative action is making steady strides in helping the problem of racial inequality in America. Affirmative action is something we should all support, until better and more effective plans are made. Affirmative Action needs both more candor and less. Some people think Affirmative action will only work short term because if you hire a minority that's under qualified they'll eventually be fired. Also, you can only hire so many people, eventually you'll get too much under qualified people working for you and you'll eventually have to abandon affirmative action all together. Also, affirmative Action doesn't work because it doesn't change anything. If there is racism in today's modern age, then racism will always be present. I think todays workplace has been better than it use to be and they have made many changes. Other than Affirmative action, there are many Anti-Discrimination laws. Employers and Supervisors must treat people fairly, whether they, or their relatives or associates, are male or female, from one ethic group rather than on other, married or not, older or younger, and so on. They must not allow any prejudices or stereotyped views that they have about people of a particular sex, race, age and so on to influence them in relation to who they hire, how they treat people while they are working for them, or who they dismiss or make redundant. The Anti-Discrimination laws also allow ...