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discrimination in the work Evironment

DISCRIMINATION IN THE WORK ENVIRONMENT

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Abstract

While efforts have been put in place to mitigate discrimination in the workplace and practice the tradition of equality , this vice continues to affect most companies and organizations globally . Discrimination in the work environment affects productivity and the good name of companies and organizations . Discriminated workers often perform poorly as they feel looked down upon and feel less inferior (Hughes Dodge , 1997 . The will explore various ways through which workers are discriminated in the workplace . Some of the discrimination practices common

in the workplaces include gender discrimination , age discrimination intelligence discrimination and racial discrimination . Other forms of discrimination such as discrimination on the basis of religion pregnancy and disability which are also widespread in most parts of the world will be considered

Discrimination in the Work Environment

Discrimination in places of work is unfair treatment of workers by their employers or by their fellow workers . In workplace discrimination the employers pay no attention to complainants who are discriminated and in many instances they ignore the kind of harassment these particular people experience . This has a tremendous negative impact on job performance since the discriminated individual are discouraged to perform effectively and this in turn affects the output in that particular company or organization . In the US , the state laws prohibit unfair treatment of people in their respective places of work Discrimination in the workplace is mainly based on age , sex , race religion , disability , nationality , intelligence and pregnancy . All the forms of...

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