Week 4 - Webinar Collaboration Discussion
Dear Class: Please post what you found to be the most informative or interesting aspect of this Week's discussions, reading or WebEx. For students attending on-site or participating in the WebEx, please post one substantive paragraph. For on-line stude...
Week 4 - Webinar Collaboration Discussion
Dear Class: Please post what you found to be the most informative or interesting
aspect of this Week's discussions, reading or WebEx. For students attending on-site or
participating in the WebEx, please post one substantive paragraph. For on-line
students or those not participating in the WebEx, please post two paragraphs.
, Collapse SubdiscussionDarrell Gordon
Darrell Gordon
Nov 18, 2019Nov 18, 2019 at 12:40pm
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Professor & Class –
One of the most interesting topics from this week’s reading came from Chapter 7
(Employment Law), under the section “Trends in Employment Litigation”.
One of the identified trends was subtle discrimination. Subtle as in discrimination
on the job is becoming much less blatant and more subtle. The text juxtaposes
hate speech and/or physical violence with forms such as presenting negative facial
expressions (which can explicitly denote displeasure), or the inflection/tone in the
speaker’s voice (which can also explicitly denote displeasure). Some of the more
common examples I have witnessed are employees mocking the last name of a
“foreign” sounding name, and most certainly several instances of a speaker (who is
a minority) where that person was being frequently interrupted. Without getting
political (but factual) a perfect example of this occurred multiple times when former
President Obama was being interviewed by a certain conservative network.
But the important point is in terms of proving discrimination in the workplace – the
instigators of continuing discrimination practices are being much more subtle and
less overt in their actions. This can make it more difficult in certain cases for a victim
to prove acts of discrimination in the workplace.
Reference:
Mello, J. (2015). Strategic Human Resource Management (4th Ed.). Stamford, CT:
Cengage Learning. (304, 305)
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Stephen Ludden
Stephen Ludden
Nov 19, 2019Nov 19, 2019 at 4:53pm
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Darrell - I found this topic to be interesting as well. There are many forms of subtle
discrimination that take place in many companies. I have observed unique situations
in the past when I was working security at a large corporation, that may be
considered subtle discrimination. The company, which will not be named, was in the
, process of sourcing workers from other countries for IT work in order to save money
on their labor line item budget. There were many people passing through the doors
of the company with just passports as their IDs, and were trained by current
employees that were being downsized. The current employees would not receive
their severance package if they did not train these new individuals.
With the approach this company was taking, it seemed to be a form of subtle
discrimination by the company not paying these people the same amount as their
trainers, even though they were stated to have the same skill set for the jobs they
were filling. Do you have any thoughts on this specific situation?
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Gina Uybungco
Gina Uybungco
Nov 22, 2019Nov 22, 2019 at 8:21pm
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Great post! Not only can discrimination be a factor in the workplace, it is also a key
issue in social determinants of health within the social and community context
domain. According to Healthy People (2019), "Social Determinants of Health are
conditions within the environments where people are born, live, work, learn, play,
worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life
outcomes and risks". These circumstances are shaped by the distribution of money,
power and resources at global, national and local levels. Examples include public
safety, access to education, access to health care services, exposure to toxic
substances, and socioeconomic conditions. Discrimination too can adversely affect
health outcomes in different populations. Impacts of discrimination occur both
structurally and individually. Structural discrimination happen on a macro level and
include factors such as residential segregation, disparities in access to quality
education, and disparities in incarceration rates. Individual discrimination is
measured more by everyday or routine events such as being treated with less
courtesy or respect than other people, receiving poorer service than others or being
passed over for a job due to ethnicity. Residential segregation is a major cause of
differences in health status and access to quality education between African
American and white people. School districts usually generate their income locally
through taxes, so residential segregation by income equates into disproportionate
funding across school districts. Children enrolled in low-quality schools with limited
health resources, increased safety concerns, and low teacher support are more
likely to have poorer physical and mental heath outcomes.
Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. (2019). Healthy People
2020. Retrieved from https://www.healthypeople.gov/
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