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Discrimination in Employment
Title VII of the Civil ights Act of 1964 specifically prohibits discrimination in the workplace based upon a candidate's "race, color, religion, sex, or national origin" (Title VII, 1964). The act also makes it illegal to refuse to hire employees based upon membership in these specific, protected categories (Title VII, 1964). It is also……
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Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967. EEOC. Retrieved from:
http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/adea.cfm
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. EEOC. Retrieved from:
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The organization that I work for has many advantages because of its decision to support non-discrimination.
One of the most important elements of life is diversity. By supporting non-discrimination laws the company provides a local atmosphere in which diversity is embraced and the company has a large diverse local pool to draw from……
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Vise, David (2005) Microsoft Backtracks, Supports Gay Rights Bill
The Washington Post
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As mentioned earlier, it is good for companies to be diverse because many workers have different situations that they are dealing with. Childcare is a major issue with many workers and now there are several companies that offer onsite childcare. This option takes a lot of stress off of the parents of having to drop the children off to daycare……
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Another area of discrimination within the LGT community is with regard to the transgendered subset vs. The larger gay community. Societal oppression against transgendered individuals has been documented in the scholarly literature for some time now (Carroll, Gilroy, & Ryan, 2002; Lev, 2004; Pepper and Lorah, 2008). However, even within the generally defined group labeled transgendered,……
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19th Amendment, Accessed 24 June 2011,
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/trials/conlaw/nineteentham.htm.
Carroll, L. (2010). Counseling sexual and gender minorities. Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Merrill/Pearson.
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Sexual Orientation Discrimination
Discrimination can be carried out in the work place through many different ways. Federal and state laws go on to prohibit employers from carrying out unfair practices like hiring or terminating on the basis of religion, race, sex, national origin, physical disability or origin. All these are factors about a person that can be……
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Alsop, Ronald. "Are Gay People More Affluent Than Others?." Wall Street Journal 1999: B1-B3. Print.
Anderson, M.L. And Taylor, H.F. Sociology: The Essentials. Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth (2009).
Antecol, Heather, Anneke Jong and Michael Steinberger. "Sexual Orientation Wage Gap: The Role of Occupational Sorting and Human Capital, The." Indus. & Lab. Rel. Rev., 61. (2007): 518. Print.
Berg, Nathan and Donald Lien. "Measuring The Effect Of Sexual Orientation On Income: Evidence Of Discrimination?." Contemporary Economic Policy, 20. 4 (2002): 394-414. Print.
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Human Resources
THE CONNECTION
Workplace Race Discrimination and Health
Employment Discrimination, Segregation and Workers' Health
A recent study explored the effects of exposure to joblessness on the volunteers' emotional well-being as affected by race and gender (Danty Jr., 2003). It also investigated the impact of racism on the……
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Danty, W.A., Jr. (2003). Employment discrimination, segregation and health. Vol. 93
# 2, American Journal of Public Health: American Public Health Association.
Retrieved on February 18, 2014 from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1447721
Hammond, W.P., et al. (2010). Workplace discrimination and depressive symptoms:
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Consensual elationship Agreements
Workplace romance or affairs are likely to happen since individuals with general interests are put together for more than 40 hours per week. Based on the findings of a survey, approximately 47% of 1,000 professionals had been engaged in office romance with 11% of them dating their managers or assistant managers. As a result……
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Hellriegel, B. Slocum, J.W. (2011). Organizational Behavior: 13th Edition. Retrieved from Tarleton State University website: http://www.tarleton.edu/Faculty/fry/5013ppts/Chapter%202%20(OB%2013th%20Ed).ppt
Lickey, N.C., Berry, G.R. & Whelan-Berry, K.S. (2009). Responding to Workplace Romance: A
Proactive and Pragmatic Approach. The Journal of Business Inquiry 8(1), 100-119. Retrieved from http://www.uvu.edu/woodbury/jbi/volume8/journals/RespondingtoWorkplaceRomance.pdf
Sutton, R. (1999). Regulating Workplace Romances. Retrieved July 14, 2012, from http://www.sglaw.com/publications.php?id=36&pubtype=showarticle
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Whether sensitivity seminars do in fact negatively impact diversity, albeit, needs further investigation.
In "Workplace diversity: A generational view," Dale E. Collins (2004), a course developer for MGH Institute of Health Professions, asserts that generational diversity constitutes one factor that fuels dynamics in education and in the workplace. Because individuals today remain in the workforce longer and……
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A new study says that mandatory diversity training backfires: After looking at data from 830
workplaces, researchers discovered that sensitivity seminars and their ilk led to declines in the number of women and minorities in management. (2008). National Review.
National Review, Inc. Retrieved June 25, 2009 from HighBeam Research:
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.....social injustice and inequality. First, literature related to the fundamentals of discrimination and descriptions of gender discrimination are discussed in the literature. Following a detailed discussion of what the literature says about gender discrimination, the literature review shifts toward the quantifiable effects of gender discrimination in the workplace. Effects are examined both in terms of measurable effects on organizations and……
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Bilkis, A., Habib, S.B. & Sharmin, T. (2010). A review of discrimination in employment and workplace. ASA University Review 4(2)
Brukmuller, S., Ryan, M.K., Haslam, A. & Peters, K. (2013). Ceilings, cliffs, and labyrinths. In the SAGE Handbook of Gender and Psychology. Sage.
Channar, Z.A., Abbassi, Z. & Ujan, I.A. (2011). Gender discrimination in workforce and its impact on the employees.
Cleveland, J.N., Vescio, T.K. & Barnes-Farrell, J.L. (2013). Gender discrimination in organizations. In Discrimination at Work. Psychology Press.
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Transgender Employment Discrimination
There is a growing body of evidence that transgender individuals frequently experience some type of discrimination during the employment process in the United States today. Although there are only a few high-profile cases, there are a significant number of employment claims being asserted. In terms of numbers, the high was reached in 1994 when……
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Black's law dictionary. (1991). St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Co.
Condrey, S.E. (2005). Handbook of human resources management in government.
Christensen, J. (2008, December 2). Sex. gender. Employment discrimination: One woman's successful lawsuit against the Library of Congress could spell more legal victories for transgender employees across the country. The Advocate, 1020, 21.
Department of Health, Education and Welfare. "Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Handicap in Programs and Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance." 45 CFR §84.1 et seq.
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