Com 315 Business Law And Ethics Essay
COMM 315 Business Law and Ethics
07-Jan-08
|Law: |Ethics: |
|if it’s not written it’s not law |norms |
| |cultural values |
| |if behaviour results in the greater good then it’s ethical |
Class exercise: Trying to define legal versus ethical (class asked to provide examples of where legal/illegal/ethical/unethical meets):
| |Ethical …show more content…
Banker puts notices in an alternative publication
Soft Quota: If two people exactly the same, choose person from the minority group
Hard Quotas: setting aside positions for minority groups. Setbacks:
Tends to reinforce the stereotype (e.g. she’s only here because she’s a woman and there was a quota – first time she makes a mistake will reinforce the stereotype)
Reverse Discrimination*: There’s someone who should have gotten the job on merit but didn’t because of a hard quota
Actionable if AA program*
*What makes AAP legal as applied to the Hard Quota? Three conditions:
Voluntary – Has to be voluntary
Manifest imbalance – Must seek to overcome manifest imbalance (based on sex, religion, etc.)
E.g. if 52% females vs. 48% males in general population, but 20% females and 80% males in a job.
Temporary – Must be temporary; cease to exist after overcoming manifest imbalance
*If all three conditions met then it’s an acceptable hard quota
Article 10: read it from book
Article 10.1: no one may harass a person on the basis of any ground mentioned in section 10, e.g. sexual orientation, etc
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: two types:
Quid pro quo: sex for reward or to avoid some kind of punishment
Not difficult to
07-Jan-08
|Law: |Ethics: |
|if it’s not written it’s not law |norms |
| |cultural values |
| |if behaviour results in the greater good then it’s ethical |
Class exercise: Trying to define legal versus ethical (class asked to provide examples of where legal/illegal/ethical/unethical meets):
| |Ethical …show more content…
Banker puts notices in an alternative publication
Soft Quota: If two people exactly the same, choose person from the minority group
Hard Quotas: setting aside positions for minority groups. Setbacks:
Tends to reinforce the stereotype (e.g. she’s only here because she’s a woman and there was a quota – first time she makes a mistake will reinforce the stereotype)
Reverse Discrimination*: There’s someone who should have gotten the job on merit but didn’t because of a hard quota
Actionable if AA program*
*What makes AAP legal as applied to the Hard Quota? Three conditions:
Voluntary – Has to be voluntary
Manifest imbalance – Must seek to overcome manifest imbalance (based on sex, religion, etc.)
E.g. if 52% females vs. 48% males in general population, but 20% females and 80% males in a job.
Temporary – Must be temporary; cease to exist after overcoming manifest imbalance
*If all three conditions met then it’s an acceptable hard quota
Article 10: read it from book
Article 10.1: no one may harass a person on the basis of any ground mentioned in section 10, e.g. sexual orientation, etc
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: two types:
Quid pro quo: sex for reward or to avoid some kind of punishment
Not difficult to