Work Culture in Canada: Causes of Inequality and Insecurity

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Work place culture is an important aspect when it comes to working in any organization.
It tells us about the culture, character and ethics of the organization. The work culture of a
company enables us to understand the values, morals, attitudes and behaviors of the employees
as well as the employers (Arnold & Bongiovi,2013). Thus, a workplace should radiate positive
energy and impart healthy working practices. The employees also feel happy and satisfied while
working in a positive environment. Workplace culture is important as it attracts people. It helps
in retaining the employees and increasing their performance. In a healthy work environment,
nobody feels demotivated or lethargic. Thus, workers perform well and are more successful.
However, in the recent years it is seen that the workplace culture of Canada has degraded
resulting in insecurity and inequality. The paper aims at showing the various causes of workplace
inequality and insecurity affect social groups (Aydemir, Chen & Corak,2013). The purpose of
this paper is to provide possible solutions and recommendations for reducing the above-
mentioned problem.
Insecurity is a feeling that storms out of uncertainty, instability and better working
conditions. Whereas inequality refers to a situation, where there is a lack of opportunity,
disparity in income, lack of facilities like housing, education, vocational training and quality of
living. Women have always been a victim of patriarchy since time immemorial. It is sad that
even today women have to face discrimination in the workplace. Women have a low income
than men (Lightman & Gingrich,2013). They still do not receive formal education in many
countries and are married off early. Radicalized groups also experience average income, health
issues and higher unemployment rates. They are less in number when it comes to white-collar
jobs. Hence, they also feel insecure and unstable. People who suffer from various disabilities are

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also secluded from society at large. They face many fluctuations in the job market. The
Aboriginals also find it difficult to look for jobs in Cananda. There have been major changes due
to loss of jobs, no pension given to the old citizens and compulsory retirement.
Primary markets consists of jobs that are good and reputed joints whereas secondary
markets consists of jobs that are not good. More and more jobs are becoming less secure in
Canada’s labor market (Froese-Germain,2013). These jobs have no benefits, security or
vacations. The ones who belong to the list of insecure employment category consists of part5-
time workers, temporary employers and contractual laborers. Only a very less percent of the
Canadian labor market has secure jobs which is not available to everyone. Most of the companies
in Canada have been following the age old tradition of keeping wages low (Benach et al.,2014).
Due to the low job market the workers have a tendency of changing jobs. This leads to neither
security nor benefits. These precarious workers fail to get an health insurance or other financial
benefits. Our financial status is linked with our social status. Hence, when the workers earn low
wages it becomes impossible for them to reach a certain stature in the society. They are
automatically deprived of formal schooling, higher studies, proper meals, medical facilities and
the gap among the rich and the poor widens (Kelly,2014). They feel socially segregated
(Ehrenreich,2006). However, the Ontario government has responded to the growing problem and
said it will take actions as quick as possible. The Canadian government has too many people
living on the margins. The incomes of majority of the people have decreased or remained
stagnant. Unfortunately, Toronto is now divided into three parts where one part of the city is
wealthy, another is engulfed in poverty and the other part is where the middle class people live.
This has lead to a huge gap between the masses. This has also resulted to increase in crimes like
theft and burglary (Grubel, 2015).. The poor people feel that they are not accepted by the society.