Scenario/Summary
This scenario takes place at a college campus among a group of student employees. We take a look at the interaction among a few employees and the proper approach to take when the behavior of some employees is deemed inappropriate by another employee.
Your Assignment
You are a student employee who overhears conversations among your coworkers. While on break, two of your male coworkers usually go off by themselves and smoke a cigarette. These recently hired coworkers are in their first semester and have just graduated from high school. Sometimes you overhear bits and pieces of their conversations. You are concerned that they regularly have conversations that are inappropriate for the workplace. You have overheard these coworkers making crude sexual references about other employees, telling sexist jokes, and sharing images and graphics of a sexist nature on their cell phones. You seek advice on how to handle the situation from others at your workplace.
Activity or Assignment
This assignment covers CO 6 in terms of interaction among groups and CO 4 in terms of the meaning of culture within society.
In a 500-word (minimum) essay, using the concepts that you learned from this week's readings analyze the different ways that sexist behavior is handled in the formal and informal bureaucracy. The following questions should answered in the essay.
The following questions should be answered in the essay.
- Does Shirley Wright's comment make you more or less likely to file a formal complaint? Do you agree with the likely punishment? If not, what alternative punishment would you suggest?
- Do you agree with Ron DesVue's perspective where he says you should speak to the individuals? Why or why not?
- Do you agree or disagree with Hugh Jim Bissell on using your smart phone to make a recording? Why or why not?
- Should you take Frieda Choose's advice that "boys will be boys," and that there is a general expectation that men will occasionally behave badly, and so long as the behavior is kept between privately, it should be ignored? Why do you think she distinguishes between sexist remarks and racist remarks? Explain your answer.
- Is there a problem with the organization in the scenario above? If so, what should be done to provide a long-term solution to the problem?
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