Reflective Assignment on Workplace Conflict and Employee Rights

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Reflective assignment

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I was working in a fast food store as a service employee where everyone was welcoming since I
was new to the work and place. Being a new employee, I was enthusiastic, but on the first day, I
had a conflict with one of my employees in the store. She discriminated against me by my
religion as I belong to Bengali culture. I felt insulted and was embarrassed too to face such
arrogant behavior. I had a bad, humiliating experience on the first day of my job. Many of the
other employees were also offended seeing her behavior this may affect to the moral of the
employees. Since we all know that working together brings moral and efficiency to work, and
also it helps the company to build its goodwill.
Effects on the workplace
The first day of my job did not go well, and I was not in a state of mind to cover the work with
that same anxiety. I was feeling low. She kept on dominating the entire day, and I felt to quit the
job, but I did not. People should not criticize anybody to make them under confident regarding
anything new they do. What she did had a bad impact on other employees too, and one of the
employees complained to the manager about her rude behavior, she had been suspended for
3days. Due to this incident, many of the co-workers lost moral because one should have respect
for others while working in the same platform. Respecting each other will increase the working
ability among the employees which will help to recover the losses and increase the productivity
in any business concern (Abel, & Obeten, 2015).
Employee rights
In every company there must possess some rights to employees which have been discussed
below in following points;
Privacy Right: Rights regarding protection for personal possession are considered as private
right such as employee locker, briefcase, purses (Albrecht, Bakker, Gruman, Macey, & Saks,
2015). The company has to give authentication of protecting their private possessions. Email on
company computer with the email address is not considered as private right, and therefore it
needs to be followed by the employees
Harassment Free Work Place: The workplace of the employee should be soothing and free
from harassment such as gender discrimination, race color religion origin discrimination, age and