I would like to share my views on how discrimination is still an ongoing behavior and how this can be avoided in this multiple race society.
Firstly, according to Dinesh(2016,p336), discrimination is preferring to better treat a certain category of human being over another. This practice is mostly observed in the workplace environment.
Secondly, this practice, of selecting based on specific characteristics, conveys a very bad Public Relations (PR) image and reputation of any given organization (Adrienne & Eden 2018). Yet companies keep doing it.
Therefore, it is advisable to companies involve in such practice to do their best in order to cleanse their image in regards of their competitors and clients since they may start viewing you as an unethical organization which does not follow any policy drafted by the Law.
Futhermore, discrimination creats a very uncomfortable environment for society and might eventually have a negative effect on the production of that given society.
Let us say for instance, there is a management crisis at your company where black employees are not getting top internal positions as compare to your fellow white coworkers. And that your black shareholders (clients) are threatening to withdraw from doing business with your company in support of their black brothers.
How can this be solved?
In today's society, people tend to be more clever hence do not allow any form of discrimination.
Referring to the above question, it will be advisable to always bring both parties to the table to get an insight as to why exactly are black employees not gaining positions that they desire.
We might have various reasons to the problem. Perhaps because black employees at this particular company really are not productive, not good negotiators or simply because they are not the face that the company want to convey out there.
Otherwise it is better to always train your employees to be ready to any given situation. Making sure for instance that your receptionist is ready to play the manager's role at any given time.
Companies always find themselves in chaotic situations where their top managers resign without noticing or giving enough time to the organization to find a replacement. Hence we must be prepared to the worst to come.
Human beings are not equal in many aspect. We find intelligent and not intelligent individuals, lazy and hard workers, abled bodies and not abled ones.
However, we all should be given equal opportunity to learn and adapt to any environment or situation. Preferring a race over another because of competence is not a good excuse to bring forward since everyone can learn and adapt.
It is written that we have fair and unfair discrimination.
The first being the fact that individuals can be chosen based on the job requirements meaning that when the job requires someone with 10 years of experience, for instance, to fill up a particular position, whoever gets rejected because of not fulfilling this requirement can not say they have been discriminated on the basis of lack of experience because the international law, which is also applies in many countries, gives permission to employer to chose the one they prefer based on the affirmative action measure.
Unfair discrimination is basically when you do not have any proven reason to reject an individual and this one is not permitted hence prohibited.
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