“Confronting Discrimination in Your Workplace”

CONFRONTING DISCRIMINATION IN YOUR WORKPLACE

Confronting Discrimination in Your Workplace

January 10 , 2008

What is Discrimination in the Workplace

Joseph Herzfeld (2008 , a team of attorneys have provided details about discrimination that occurs in the workplace . According to the attorneys , discrimination in the workplace assumes various forms such as Sexual Discrimination , Racial Discrimination , Age Discrimination and others . In such incidents , colleagues , employers and other people in the office environment make suggestive actions or indulge in verbal abuse that offends a victim 's gender or ethnic origins . The authors have noted

br that while racial discrimination and sexual discrimination are the most common forms of abuse , incidents of harassment are equally important and form a major issue in the discrimination . Citing various examples , the authors suggest that sexual harassment usually occur to both white and black women and women of other ethnic origins . Racial discrimination and harassment usually occur to people of non white ethnic origins such as blacks , Hispanics , Asians and others . A skit is provided in the following section where the setting is the engineering department of an organization

Introduction

White People : Mike (Supervisor , Tom

Black People : Robert , Mary

The four of them are having a meeting , the two white people are seated on one side of the table while the other two are seated on the other side

Mike : Ya Robert , I see that you have many work items pending . I can see that the work list has many tasks that are either not done fully or have not been started yet

Tom : Ya Robert , you have some explaining to do . I just pointed out these pending items to our boss Mike

Robert : See Mike , see the my workload and the workload of the other white guys including Tom here . How come I am giving so much heavy and dirty work while the other Whites are given easy stuff

Mike : What do you mean Robert ? I distribute the work among all the crew members

Robert : Really , so lets see the work sheet of the other people

Tom : Why should we show our work sheet to a N .r ' like you

Mike : Cool it now Tom . See Robert , there is no truth in what you are saying . I give the work as per the people capability and nothing else

Robert : Really ? So that is the reason why I am given all the heavy and dirty work ? I see that Tom has done nothing the whole day but spend the hours visiting the drawing department to get some drawings while I have been working the whole day , covered with grease and oil

Mike : See Robert . Going to the drawing department and getting the drawings means explaining technical stuff to the designers and getting them done up properly . It requires some amount of speaking and technical skills

Robert : And what makes you think that I cant talk to the designers myself ? I have also done my certificate course same as Tom and got a higher grade

Mike : No Tom , you...