Research thesis
The research focuses on the practical causes behind the plight of victims ranging from the African Americans of getting racially discriminated for their workplace rights to the gender identity orientation towards women for leadership roles in various organizations. The main question focussed in the research is that although, there are specific ethical and legal statutes which involve the human right violation laws for African American and females at the workplace, still they are not effective enough in solving the issue of racial and gender oriented discrimination. This research thesis aims at analyzing the various ethical considerations that are implied in the workplace environment to evaluate their actual effectiveness in mitigating the rising racial and gender discrimination and tends to recommend some specific changes for making them more effective.
Abstract
The most developed nations of the world like USA and UK are currently stung by the prevalent social menace of workplace discrimination practices which are biased in terms of races and gender. Both countries have very stringent ethical, legal , and professional statutes imposed on any practice of workplace discrimination and still there are various incidents of gender and racial discrimination being practiced in the workplace environment. Also, there are many lawsuits filed over the companies due to incidents of ethnic minorities and women getting harassed and treated with prejudice which results in a lopsided access to the power and resources. This means that either the ethical considerations imposed on the employees in the workplace environment are not practiced at all or if they are, then they are not effective enough to install a corrective action on the discriminatory mindset of employees and the organizations. Therefore, this research tries to find why the workplace ethics are not able to stringently impose such professional practices which can stop employees from practicing discrimination based on race and gender. The research will use the secondary research data to analyze the actual gaps in present ethical considerations implemented at the workplace environment and try to resolve the issues by recommending adequate changes in their mode of implementation and supervision to ensure that they are most effective in their objective.
Conclusion
Prima-facie,the rising number of gender and racial discrimination based incidents show a loophole in the prevalent ethical considerations in the workplace environment. But, there is an equal possibility that there might be some other causes (unfocussed) leading to such scenario and the deployed ethical statutes can be legitimate enough in mitigating the workplace discrimination. Therefore, the research will unravel the effectiveness of the prevalent ethical considerations to ascertain whether they are thoroughly implemented or there is a flaw in the implementation and acceptance of these considerations in the workplace. If the research findings conclude in avour of the effectiveness of prevalent ethical considerations then there must be some other socio-economic or socio-cultural causes that need to be unearthed to develop an adequate cause-effect relationship for the rising number of workplace discrimination cases in the developed countries like USA and UK.
Annotated Bibliography
Cavico , Mufler and Mujtaba, Bahaudin. "Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination in the American Workplace:Legal and Ethical Considerations".International Journal of Humanities and Social Science ,2 (2012): 1-15. Print.
This is an academic journal article that provides an ethical analysis of the amendments required in the employment protection and workplace environment-related policies. The article analyzes the prevailing scenario of more incidents coming up for sexual orientation and gender oriented discrimination in the developed countries like USA. The article ends up with providing recommendations on the changes that need to be adopted in the current workplace environment to reduce the discriminatory incidents. This article will be very useful in the research as it provides a great deal of information on the ethical issues and practical ways which need to be changed to solve the problem of discrimination at the workplace.
Fernandes, Lily and Alsaeed, Norahadiq. "African Americans And Workplace Discrimination".European Jouarnal of English Language and Literature Studies,2 (2014): 56-76. Web.
This is an academic journal article that explains the worsening status of racial and gender-based discrimination in North America and analyzes the ethical and legal framework of the workplace environment to evaluate the need of policy changes with respect to human rights. The legal and ethical considerations with respect to the right of African American and women are primarily highlighted in this article by using the cause-effect relationship between such practices and various causes which lead to them. This article can be very useful in the research as it can provide an outlook over the economic, social, and political constraints of the North American workplace environment that limit the effectiveness of implied anti-discriminations policies under the ethical and legal considerations.
Hirsch, Afua. "Workplace racism is on the rise – we need action, not lip service". The Guardian. 2015. Web. March, 14.2015.
This is an online opinion article from ‘The Guardian’ which presents the latest insight on the rising incidents of racial discrimination in the UK and views of the British prime minister David Cameron over this issue. The article specifically highlights the issues like racial bullying and workplace harassment that have led to the futility of all the human rights and workplace ethics related to prevention of such incidents. This article can be extremely useful in terms of gaining an outlook over the socio-political stance of the UK government regarding changes that need to be made in existing workplace policies.
