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Title VII of The Civil Rights Act of 1964 mandates that employers today identify themselves as "equal opportunity employers" and "provide extensive diversity and antidiscrimination training for managers and supervisors to eliminate the potential for discriminatory decision making." (Ford & Harrison LLP, 2006) Most employers proudly display this.
Nevertheless, managers and supervisors frequently allow unlawful bias to unduly influence their decisions – even though they may not even realize it. Decision makers may indeed harbor "unconscious biases" based on race, gender, and ethnicity that unduly influence their decisions.
There is also evidence that modern forms of discrimination derive from in-group favoritism as well as from out-group exclusion or devaluation. People have a fundamental need to feel positive about them and often favor members of their own group to raise their self-esteem. Moreover, recent research and theory suggests that in certain contexts out-group members may conform to in-group negative stereotypes or otherwise adopt self-defeating strategies that serve to further entrench existing disparities.
Stereotypes can cause discrimination by biasing how we process information about other people as well as by informing our beliefs about social roles.
While my position in Human Resources allows me to be privy of confidential information, it also allows me to see the true nature of management. I have observed denied promotions due to women because hiring managers feels that as a female one should be demure and soft-spoken or family oriented as opposed to climb the corporate ladder. This is clearly discrimination on the basis of sex; the hiring managers' cognitive stereotype about the nature in which women should behave and their proper role in society has influenced his perception and evaluation of the candidate.
"Over the past several decades, we have realized the complexity of discrimination as a human...
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