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HRM Case Study- Religious Discrimination
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Added on 2019-10-01
HRM Case Study- Religious Discrimination
Added on 2019-10-01
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Running Head: ISSUES AND PRACTICES IN HR MANAGEMENT 1Human Resource ManagementName of the StudentName of the University
ISSUES AND PRACTICES IN HR MANAGEMENT 2Case Study1.Explain what is legally needed in order for religious discrimination to exist.Ans: Religious discrimination is a type of discrimination in which a person or a group of persons is discriminated based on their religious beliefs and ideals. People are mocked and this kind of incidents not only happens in the personal life but also happens in the professional life as well. So, the legal rules are made and implemented so as to stop this kind of religious discrimination. They not only play an important role to protect the people of different religions but also plays an important role in safeguarding the religious as well as ethical and moral beliefs of a person. In religious discrimination, people are treated differently and are not given their proper rights. In the workplace also, various kinds of religious discrimination may take place. People are not treated properly, not given equal opportunities to perform so as to prove their capabilities among the others (Bayl‐Smith and Griffin, 2014). The employees or the candidates are not recruited, terminated at any point of time, not appreciated for their hard work during the time of the promotions. It is also possiblethat, employees are not given better training as well as benefits due to their religious beliefs. Religious harassment can of different types such as passing offensive or hurtful remarks, teasing, isolating the person etc leading to a bad work environment. These kind of behaviour and treatment is not acceptable as it can harm the performance and growth of the organization. The reason is that the discriminated people may not feel encouraged to give their best by increasing the productivity and the performance of the firm in the competitive world (Cortina, Kabat-Farr, Leskinen et al, 2013). So, from the case study, it can be seen though Treton Communications Inc. firm follows and maintains anti-discrimination policies but still an employee had to face religious discrimination from both the colleagues and the seniors.
ISSUES AND PRACTICES IN HR MANAGEMENT 32.Is the company guilty of religious discrimination? Match the facts of the case to the legal criteria.Ans: Yes. The company Trenton Communications is guilty of religious discrimination. Thereason is that though the firm follows and stopped any kind of anti-discrimination cases but still an employee named MarShawn DeMuralso known asMaalick had to face religious discrimination not only from his colleagues and the coworkers but also from one of his seniors Mr. Jenkins badly. The employees and the higher officials clearly knew about the anti-religious discrimination policies clearly but still they violated the rules and made fun of the religious beliefs and transformation of Maalick. From the case study, it can be clearly observed that Maalick was an African- American who was working effectively and efficiently in the work. He was a religious person who was interested in the ideas of International Spirituality and converted in that religion by taking a new name for himself (Dean, Safranski and Lee,2014). After becoming the member of the International Spirituality when he returned to the workplace, it can be observed that his colleagues and coworkers were looking at him strangely and did not behaved with him properly. In spite of replying to his conversation, they expressed their feeling in body language, made fun of him and again started doing their assigned jobs. These kind of behavior and responses are illegal according to the legal rules as he should be given proper respect in spite of having different religious beliefs. From the study, it can also be noticed that his workplace was decorated withvarious kinds of pin dolls, with hats, incense containers, strange symbols, letters etc. The reason of keeping the things in his office is that the coworkers were not able to accept ad respect his religious ideologies (Emerson and Murphy, 2014). Another reason of doing these activities was to humiliate and to make him realize that he had done wrong by accepting the religion.
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