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In the case considered, there are two possibilities for the award of the contract: The first is that there may have been no companies on the applicant list that met the minority standards. The second is that non-minority companies far outweighed their minority counterparts in the level of service that would be provided.
In the first case,……
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Smitherman, Laura. (2008, Aug 7).
Board OKs contract for company that failed to meet minority goals. Tribune Business News. Washington. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1526873651&SrchMod e=1&sid=25&Fmt=3&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1236295162&c lientId=29440
Teall, E. (2000). Ethics in the Workplace. Dept of Educational Technology, San Diego University. http://school.teall.net/ethman/info/util.htm
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Workplace:
Developing Flexibility within the Workplace:
For a number of human resource managers from different organizations, developing flexibility within the workplace is one of the major problems for various firms. Actually, one of the most fundamental considerations for any high performing organization or firm is flexibility within the workplace. The need for developing flexibility……
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Chan, A (n.d.), The Challenges of Human Resource Management, ZeroMillion.com, viewed 5
February 2011,
Edema, O (2010), Flexibility within the Workplace, Qondio Great Britain, viewed 5 February
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They dropped back slightly to 1.5 million in 2002" (Mason-Dreffen 2003). Those increases occurred despite the fact that age discrimination can be difficult to prove, although the Supreme Court had eased the plaintiff's burden of proof (Ormsbee 2002). Song 2001
University of California at Davis professor of computer science, Dr. Norman Matloff, noted that in the IT……
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Besi, J.R., & Kale, B.D. (1996). Older Workers in the 21st Century: Active and Educated, a Case Study. Monthly Labor Review, 119(6), 18+. Retrieved January 27, 2005, from Questia database, http://www.questia.com .
Clogston, R. (1989, March 23). Age discrimination still plagues older engineers; many years of experience may actually be detrimental to an EE's career. EDN. Retrieved January 28, 2005 from Highbeam Research, http://www.highbeam.com .
Cohen, A. (2003, March 2). Too old to work? New York Times. Retrieved January 27, 2005 from Highbeam Research,
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Workplace Diversity
Cultural diversification is a term that has become very popular in the recent years, especially among the people working in various organizations. A lot of concerns have arisen due to the flow of the immigrants into the major cities of the United States. Due to the arrival of the immigrants and the varying concerns of……
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Black Enterprise. (2001). Managing a multicultural workforce. Black Enterprise Magazine (July).
Devoe, Deborah. (1999). Managing a diverse workforce. San Mateo, CA: InfoWorld Media Group.
Esty, Katharine, Richard Griffin, and Marcie Schorr-Hirsh (1995). Workplace diversity. A managers guide to solving problems and turning diversity into a competitive advantage. Avon, MA: Adams Media Corporation.
Flagg, Alex. (2002). Managing diverse workgroups successfully. United Behavioral Health website (members only section). Available on the World Wide Web at http://www.ubhnet.com. Date visited, February 8, 2002.
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An organization that practice peer reinforcement tends to be successful since this helps in encouraging the employees in speaking up their minds whenever they witness any kind of harassment within the organization. Most Organizations have lost their works because of age discrimination among the workers in the working place, however, other employees tend not to be……
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Esposito, S. (2011).Age Discrimination in the Workplace. Retrieved December 2, 2012 from http://www.humanresourcesiq.com/talentmanagement/articles/age-discrimination-in-the-workplace-2-mistakes-you/
Mayfair, a. & Media, D (2012). Improving lives .The Consequences of Age Discrimination at Work. Retrieved December 2, 2012 from http://smallbusiness.chron.com/consequences-age-discrimination-work-15806.html
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Discrimination
There are many different types of discrimination that exist in the labor market today. There is ethnic discrimination as well as other discrimination like gender discrimination. Kenneth Arrow, the Nobel Prize winner, defined discrimination as "the valuation in the market place of personal characteristics of the worker that are unrelated to productivity" (Anonymous). Harassment can also……
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(1) Anonymous -- Discrimination in the Labor Market. [Online website] Available from: http://www.tutor2u.net/economics/content/topics/labourmarket/labour_discrimination.htm [Accessed on 16/10/2005]
(2) Finance Ministry -- Israel Economic Recovery Plan - Stage II Transition to Growth. [Online website] Available from: http://www.mof. gov.il/beinle/economic_plan.pdf [Accessed on 16/10/2005]
(3) Adva Center - "Israel: A Social Report 2003" [Online website] Available from: www.adva.org/ISRAEL_2003_ENG.pdf [Accessed on 16/10/2005]
(4) Dr. Aziz Haidar - "The Arab Population in the Israeli Economy" 1990. International Center for Peace in the Middle East, p.130
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Workplace violence (Bullying)
Workplace violence can be defined as an action that manifests itself in threatening behavior, physical assault, aggression or any other violent form that may be displayed at work setting and may be directed towards coworkers, managers or even the customers themselves. These aggressions can cause emotional or to great extent physical harm or both……
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Directgov, (2011). Bullying in the workplace. Retrieved April 1, 2011 from http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/ResolvingWorkplaceDisputes/DiscriminationAtWork/DG_10026670
Dr. Namie G., (2011). Workplace Bullying Defined. Retrieved April 1, 2011 from http://www.workdoctor.com/problem.php
Heathfield S.M., (2011). What is Bullying? Retrieved April 1, 2011 from http://humanresources.about.com/od/glossaryb/g/bullying.htm
HRdictionary.com, (2011). Workplace Bullying. Retrieved April 1, 2011 from http://www.hrdictionary.com/definition/workplace-bullying.html
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For instance, if one individual "kept telling another employee sexual jokes that the second employee found offensive, it would be sexual harassment in the workplace. If two employees dated and engaged in consensual sex, this would not be sexual harassment. If one of the two then wanted to terminate the relationship, and the other used the unequal relative terms and……
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Hostile Workplace. (April 1997) it's time: Institute for Management Excellence online newsletter and website. Updated 2001. Retrieved on October 3, 2004 at http://www.itstime.com/apr97.htm .
Sexual Harassment in Workplace." (2004) Discrimination Attorney. http://www.discriminationattorney.com/harasswk.shtml
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Discrimination
The mentioned acts have a common thread of setting boundaries for discrimination in the workplace. Each act makes illegal discrimination in the workplace on the basis of specific personal traits. In a sense, most of the acts are built on the framework of Title VII of the Civil ights Act of 1964, and they expand on……
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EEOC. (2014). Pregnancy discrimination. U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Retrieved January 22, 2014 from http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/pregnancy.cfm
EEOC. (2014). Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Retrieved January 22, 2014 from http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/titlevii.cfm
FindLaw. (2014). Griggs v Duke Power Co. 401 U.S. 424 (1971). Retrieved January 22, 2014 from http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=U.S.&vol=401&invol=424
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This is to say that, in a theoretical
regard, ethnic prejudices and religious hatred may not even enter into some
of the broader economic patterns. Instead, in such instances, this is a
form of economic opportunism which, not unlike America's categorical
exploitation of Mexican labor, has manifested as a devastating form of
economic discrimination.
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Abu Dhabi Education Council. (2007). Homepage. Abu Dhabi, UAE. Online
at http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5444.htm .
Al Bawaba. (2006). UAE Education Ministry Signs Three-Year MOU as GESS
Supporter. UAE Al Bawaba. Online at
http://www.albawaba.com/en/countries/UAE/218520.
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