Disruptions, Barriers and Stress at Paid Work

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Chapter 5

• Disruptions, Barriers and Stress at Paid Work

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Discrimination

• 1) Discrimination is when an employer provides
  unequal opportunities to protected groups.
• For example, study of racial discrimination that
  shows white ex con are called back 17 of the
  time, but crime-free black applicants only 14.
  Yet, white people, when surveyed, dont believe
  that racial disc. Exists.
• 2) In this country, discrimination is illegal
  against.
• But protected against which group?

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Discrimination

• 3) Discrimination comes in two types
• Hiring
• Promotion
• 4) Discrimination is difficult to prevent
• It is hard to prove It is legal to make it
  difficult
• The government does not provide enough resources
  to ensure non discrimination

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Discrimination

• 5) Causes for Hiring Discrimination
• (when employers refuse to hire certain groups for
  certain jobs)
• A) Statistical discrimination
• B) Gender/Race typing
• C) Job Sex Segregation
• D) Networks
• E) Homosocial Reproduction

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Discrimination

• 6) Causes for Pay and Promotion Discrimination
• A) Tokenism
• B) HR
• C) Networking
• D) Glass Ceiling and Sticky Floor
• E) Sexual Harassment
• Quid pro quo
• Hostile Working Environment
• F) Comparable Worth Discrimination

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Solutions to Discrimination

• 1) Solutions to
• Statistical discrimination
• Gender/race typing
• Job sex segregation
• Homosocial reproduction
• Networking
• Affirmative Action
• What is AA Executive Order. Only effects
  businesses accepting money from the government.
• Doesnt require quotas
• Two biggest complaints about AA
• Reverse Discrimination This assumes that every
  job is filled by qualified white men tests
  measure qualification hiring is an objective
  process in which we know who is BEST.
• Preferential Treatment -- This assumes that
  preferential treatment benefiting white men does
  not exist. Is this true? In colleges, there
  is preferential treatment towards alumnis.

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Unemployment

• Types of unemployment
• Frictional unavoidable delays between jobs
• Structural- of jobs available less than number
  of people seeking jobs.
• Underemployed- people jobs dont match their
  skills.
• Layoffs --

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Workplace Hazards

• 1) 14,000 deaths a year due to industrial
  accidents
• 2) 30,000 deaths from unsafe consumer products
• 3) There are only 20,000 street murders
• 4) Corporate Crime costs 174 billion dollars
• 5) Street Crime costs 4 billion dollars

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Workplace Hazards

• 6) Chronic Stress Injury
• 7) Workplace Pollution
• 8) There is no Right to Know Legislation.
• 9) Developing countries have it worse
• Bhopal