Racial/Ethnic Workplace Discrimination

An overview of workplace discrimination and disability

• an official unemployment rate of 14.2% vs. 9% for non-disabled – larger than any other protected class of citizens [3]; • the average duration of unemployment was 25 weeks vs. 21 weeks for non-disabled [3]; • higher levels of under-employment including [4]; ◦ 7.8% involuntary part-time workers for AWDs vs. 5.5% for non-disabled; and ◦ 11.5% experienced reduction in wages; i.e., full-time earn...

The Perpetuation of Discrimination in the Workplace

Scholarly and anecdotal evidence suggests that despite an increasing tolerance for diversity among many Americans, workplace discrimination is on the rise. This article addresses the role that learning, or more specifically barriers to learning, plays in the perpetuation of discrimination. We use several organizationally based learning theories to illustrate ways in which firms may fail to lear...

Avoiding religious discrimination in the workplace.

WORKSHOP/CONSULTANCY PROPOSAL RATIONALE In the face of globalization, changing economic realities, demographic shifts, and religious pluralization, increasing awareness regarding religion in the workplace is proving to be vital in creating a harmonious professional environment. This field of study and diversity training is attracting growing interest from academics, management scholars, human r...

Looking to Torts: Exploring the Risks of Workplace Discrimination

The Invisible Minority: Discrimination against Bisexuals in the Workplace

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (“LGBTQ+”) community has won major legal victories in the last twenty years, but at least one group remains left behind in those victories. The bisexual population is often ignored, erased, and discriminated against by both homosexual and heterosexual individuals and communities.1 This is true despite the fact that bisexuals outnumber both lesb...