Introduction
What is discrimination in the workplace ? Discrimination is defined as an unfavorable and unequal treatment towards a person or a group of people due to the differences with other individuals. These differences can take various forms and are all different from each other. Such as the origin ( race) , religion and the sex of a person. However, discrimination can be direct and indirect.
What is the difference between those two characteristics ? Direct discrimination is mostly known as treating someone unfairly and unfavorable because of their certain characteristic that they might not like in them, also people making unfair opinions and assumptions about what a person can and cannot do due to their characteristic.
An example of this could be an old woman willing to apply for a job , and getting refused due to her age and that she is too old for learning new skills.
Indirect discrimination is when everyone gets treated equally, but then disadvantages unfairly someone because of a personal characteristic of a person protected by law.
An example of this could be giving an employee an unfair task.
Laws for discrimination exists and it works but at the same time discrimination does not stop and continues.
In my reflective project, I want to answer the question what are the ethical implications in the workplace and why does discrimination not stop. Furthermore, of showing how does it apply ethically towards people and the workplace and how much people suffer from this issue. Different Types Of Discrimination Race Discrimination. Racial discrimination is when a person is being treated differently than another person because of their skin color, national origin, religion , or them being immigrants. When does this happen ? Racial discrimination can happen in all different stages; mostly this happens during the stage of the interview when the person taking the interview does not hire the person because the person applying to the job is different and have different characteristics than the other people working in the company and makes a conclusion that the person applying have different capabilities and can not be part of the job . The person applying could have a lot of experience and excellent qualifications but the other co-workers are not comfortable on working with a person with different race. ‘’Every day a black-name resume is 50 percent less likely to get responded to than a white-name resume.’’ said Jalen Ross on CNN’s State of the union. Also this could happen during the working progress , people of different race getting less chances of moving into a hire place in the company. People with a different race have most likely less chances of getting a higher place in their workplace. A statistic from the BLS ( U.S Bureau of labor statistics ) shows that white people make up more than 80 percent of the country's workers. But they account for nearly all farm managers and ranchers (96 percent) construction managers (92 percent), carpenters (91 percent), and CEOs (90 percent), due to this statistics we can see that mostly white people are getting the highest places in the working place. An example of that could be that a black person and a white person have been working in the company for the same amount of time but the white worker gets moved to a hire place and the black person stays in the same position or gets moved to a less desirable position than he eventually wanted. This facts gives a big ethical affect on the people , people feeling different, people giving on their abilities and skills due to the racial discrimination. However, those are not only the facts that are happening , racial discriminated people get less paid than the other group of people ‘’Black …show more content…
There are many effects decrease employee productivity affects the companies and the person, it affects the companies because when someone is discriminated against there are high chances of him to suddenly lack interest in the job and even drop the job. It also then creates tension between the workers, being treated differently but being in the position , as an example getting payed more than the other person and then feeling uncomfortable in front of this person this could create tension, and could bring to worse quality of
What is discrimination in the workplace ? Discrimination is defined as an unfavorable and unequal treatment towards a person or a group of people due to the differences with other individuals. These differences can take various forms and are all different from each other. Such as the origin ( race) , religion and the sex of a person. However, discrimination can be direct and indirect.
What is the difference between those two characteristics ? Direct discrimination is mostly known as treating someone unfairly and unfavorable because of their certain characteristic that they might not like in them, also people making unfair opinions and assumptions about what a person can and cannot do due to their characteristic.
An example of this could be an old woman willing to apply for a job , and getting refused due to her age and that she is too old for learning new skills.
Indirect discrimination is when everyone gets treated equally, but then disadvantages unfairly someone because of a personal characteristic of a person protected by law.
An example of this could be giving an employee an unfair task.
Laws for discrimination exists and it works but at the same time discrimination does not stop and continues.
In my reflective project, I want to answer the question what are the ethical implications in the workplace and why does discrimination not stop. Furthermore, of showing how does it apply ethically towards people and the workplace and how much people suffer from this issue. Different Types Of Discrimination Race Discrimination. Racial discrimination is when a person is being treated differently than another person because of their skin color, national origin, religion , or them being immigrants. When does this happen ? Racial discrimination can happen in all different stages; mostly this happens during the stage of the interview when the person taking the interview does not hire the person because the person applying to the job is different and have different characteristics than the other people working in the company and makes a conclusion that the person applying have different capabilities and can not be part of the job . The person applying could have a lot of experience and excellent qualifications but the other co-workers are not comfortable on working with a person with different race. ‘’Every day a black-name resume is 50 percent less likely to get responded to than a white-name resume.’’ said Jalen Ross on CNN’s State of the union. Also this could happen during the working progress , people of different race getting less chances of moving into a hire place in the company. People with a different race have most likely less chances of getting a higher place in their workplace. A statistic from the BLS ( U.S Bureau of labor statistics ) shows that white people make up more than 80 percent of the country's workers. But they account for nearly all farm managers and ranchers (96 percent) construction managers (92 percent), carpenters (91 percent), and CEOs (90 percent), due to this statistics we can see that mostly white people are getting the highest places in the working place. An example of that could be that a black person and a white person have been working in the company for the same amount of time but the white worker gets moved to a hire place and the black person stays in the same position or gets moved to a less desirable position than he eventually wanted. This facts gives a big ethical affect on the people , people feeling different, people giving on their abilities and skills due to the racial discrimination. However, those are not only the facts that are happening , racial discriminated people get less paid than the other group of people ‘’Black …show more content…
There are many effects decrease employee productivity affects the companies and the person, it affects the companies because when someone is discriminated against there are high chances of him to suddenly lack interest in the job and even drop the job. It also then creates tension between the workers, being treated differently but being in the position , as an example getting payed more than the other person and then feeling uncomfortable in front of this person this could create tension, and could bring to worse quality of