Understanding Prejudice and Discrimination

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Understanding Prejudice and Discrimination

• Prejudice
• Negative attitude toward individuals who
• belong to groups considered different than the
  dominant group
• Discrimination
• Behavior resulting from prejudice
• Stereotyping
• Generalizing about people based on the common
  characteristics they share with members of their
  own group

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Minority Group Characteristics

• Experience a pattern of disadvantage or
  inequality
• Visible identifying traits
• Aware of their disadvantages and inequality
• Born into their minority classification
• Usually marry within their own group

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Sources of Prejudice

• Personality
• Learned Behavior
• Intergroup Competition

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Types of Discrimination

• Tolerator
• low prejudice
• low discrimination
• Conformist
• low prejudice
• high discrimination
• Law Abider
• high prejudice
• low discrimination
• Violator
• high prejudice
• high discrimination

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Types of DiscriminationFederally Protected
Classes

• Class Protected by
• Race Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Color Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Ethnic Origin Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Gender Civil Rights Act of 1964 Equal Pay Act
  
• Religion Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Age (over 40) Age Discrimination in Employment
  Act
• Disability Americans with Disabilities Act
• Vocational Rehabilitation Act
• Pregnancy Pregnancy Discrimination Act
• Vietnam Veterans Status Vietnam Era Veterans
  Readjustment Act

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Americans with Disabilities Act Disabled
Defined

• A physical or mental impairment that
  substantially limits one or more of the major
  life activities of an individual
• A record of such impairment
• Or being regarded as having such an impairment

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Prejudice and Discrimination in the 21st Century

• Symbolic Racism--Belief that
• No longer serious discrimination
• Any inequality is the fault of minority group
• Demands for preferential treatment is unfair and
  discriminatory
• Racism--Belief that
• Certain groups are genetically inferior
• Unequal treatment is justified

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Affirmative Action Strategies

• Intentional recruitment of minority applicants
• Removal of discriminatory workplace practices
• Preferential hiring and promotion of minority
  applicants
• History of discrimination
• Goals based on qualified workforce vs. area
  population
• Cannot trammel rights of nonminorities

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Terms in Workplace Discrimination

• Bona Fide Occupational Qualification (BFOQ)
• Job requirement that is related to duties
  employees must be able to perform
• Disparate Treatment
• Intentional discrimination
• Adverse Impact
• Unintentional discrimination

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Managing Workplace Diversity

• Training
• Diversity Celebrations
• Diversity Teams
• Affirmative Action Programs
• Calm Questioning Technique