How might discrimination against younger and older workers combined affect employers, given the shifting age distribution?
Chapter 13 considers age as an aspect of diversity. Age discrimination is prohibited by the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) which prohibits employment discrimination against people 40 and over (pgs. 88-89). The ADEA does not prohibit discrimination against workers younger than 40, and recent court decisions have reaffirmed the focus of the ADEA on […]
How might the lack of broad federal legislation prohibiting age discrimination against younger workers contribute to their experiences of discrimination and harassment at work?
Chapter 13 considers age as an aspect of diversity. Age discrimination is prohibited by the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) which prohibits employment discrimination against people 40 and over (pgs. 88-89). The ADEA does not prohibit discrimination against workers younger than 40, and recent court decisions have reaffirmed the focus of the ADEA on […]
Discuss similarities in performance expectations of people with disabilities and other workers.
Chapter 14 introduces physical and mental ability as aspects of diversity. Nearly one in five Americans (about 54 million) have a disability, of which many are invisible. Most of these workers require no special accommodations. Although people with disabilities want to work, they are more likely to be unemployed and have lower earnings than people […]
What do you think about this debate? Can you come up with some example(s) in your life or someone else’s where advertising of one form or another created a new desire that clearly wasn’t there before? And if so, can you say if it was generally for the better or worse?
As discussed in the textbook, p. 293-4 on Galbraith’s “dependence effect”, there is some debate among philosophers as to whether advertising creates wants as Gailbraith argued in his book, The Affluent Society. According to him, as a society becomes more affluent, wants are increasingly created by the process by which they are satisfied. Others disagree though, claiming […]