Danford Leadership Impacted
Danford’s leadership does not appreciate the idea of diversified work place ethics and it openly discriminates women against holding managerial position. As a result, they cannot be able to benefit from the diversity of leadership skills that women would have brought to the firm given the nature of their personalities. Women are empathic, caring, deal with details and consistent. They take time to scrutinize idea and are less likely to make crude mistakes in their decision. Danford’s management team is dominated by white men who are well educated and are they feel that they are at the cutting edge of everything at the company. With such arrogance and egoistic character, they are less likely to listen to opinion from juniors and worse from women!
Lack of Objectivity
There are some things that Marc Johnson said or did that clearly show he lacked objectivity in carrying out his responsibility hence making him biased against women. One of the evident incidences is when he privately mentioned to his subordinate that it was likely that minorities were not adequately trained or intelligent enough to do the technical and financial tasks in his department. Besides that he also mentioned that he did not believe that women have the temperament for that kind of job.
Second, during the interview with Marita, Johnson was focusing on her physical appearance and dressing rather than on the response she was giving after being asked questions. Basically she was appropriately dressed and seemed sophisticated though she had a Spanish accent which Johnson though could affect communication. She also gave strong solid answers that Johnson openly indicated he did not expect from a Hispanic woman. This was racist actions that can illicit discrimination to the rest of workers (Jackson 284).
Johnson appeared at the interview with a mindset that Marita was not going to make it through the interview because she was a woman, Hispanic and at the end of the interview she said she lived in Chicago, an area Johnson disliked because of what he believed that people from there were violent, unreliable and unmanageable. He deliberately asked her questions that senior financial experts could know so that he could prove his assertions. Furthermore, when asked about her by his boss, Mr. Roche, Johnson says he felt that she was not fit for the job enough. As a result, Johnson rejected her for the job and sent her a regret letter.
The “4Ps of Diversity” impacted this case in that they prevented the selection of the candidate because she was not from the male dominated class of managers and as a Hispanic she was regarded as being inferior because generally, Hispanics or Latinos have a rich history of not being educated.
Diversity Factors
There are two main diversity factors that are implicated in the case of Danford products. The first factor is sexism. Despite the call for diversity and increased employment of women to managerial positions, Danford has male dominated management team. This affirmative action has remained elusive and in the male dominated workplaces women faces obstacles to get a job and promotion into management position (Jackson 284). Johnson implied that the women did not have the temperament of doing the financial stressful job or could be less qualified.
Another issue was racism. Diversity concerns require that people should not be discriminated because of their race, sex or other socio-cultural statuses (Thomas 172). However, in this case, Marita is discriminated because she is Hispanic. Basically the Latinos or Hispanics have extraordinary history because of their cultural background. They have experienced political problems, poor education; they have suffered homelessness and are economically poor. Because of the varied background, they have been considered and very inferior in terms of education and capability at work. Besides they are regarded as violent individuals because of the areas they reside are often characterised by violence. Johnson proves these when he implied that people from Chicago, the Hispanic were violent and not employable.
Healthcare Organisation
If this was a healthcare organisation, the situation could not be any better in my opinion. This is because technical jobs like medical practise and technology careers are still dominated by men (Jackson 285). In that regard, men dominate management positions and women are only given jobs as nurses to assist male physician. However, the trend is healthcare is changing quite faster than in manufacturing industry because of legal requirement to adhere affirmative action principles to include women in management positions (Thomas 175).
Work diversity Strategy
Code of Conduct
Code of conduct could have changed the shape of the case because the code guides the actions of the managers and all other employees. The code has clear statement on diversity especially the women involvement in management positions, recruitment process and other employments standards that must be upheld for good work ethics (Gloria and Julie 313).
References
Gloria, Miller and Julie, Rowney. Workplace Diversity Management in A Multicultural Society. Women In Management Review, 14.8(1999): 307 – 315.
Jackson, Susan. Diversity In The Workplace: Human Resources Initiatives. New York: Guilford Press, 2004. Print
Thomas, Kecia. Diversity Dynamics In The Workplace. Belmon; Thomson/Wadsworth, 2004. Print