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A Study To Determine The Effectiveness Of Diversity Training In The Workplace And What Kind Of Daily Impact Do These Results Have On Workers At Old Dominion University, Tatrece R. Dunlap Jan 1995

A Study To Determine The Effectiveness Of Diversity Training In The Workplace And What Kind Of Daily Impact Do These Results Have On Workers At Old Dominion University, Tatrece R. Dunlap

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

To answer the research problem, the researcher sought to answer the following questions: 1. Are the diversity training seminars that are conducted at Old Dominion offered on a voluntary basis? 2. Are issues of diversity better dealt with as a result of training? 3. Are employees encouraged to attend and actively participate in the diversity training seminars? 4. Based on employee feedback, is the program beneficial to employees? 5. As a result of training sessions, is there more of an awareness of prejudice and bias in the workplace?

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Broadcast Managers And The Tolerance For Sexual Harassment Inventory, Jeremy Harris Lipschultz, Michael L. Hilt Jan 1994

Broadcast Managers And The Tolerance For Sexual Harassment Inventory, Jeremy Harris Lipschultz, Michael L. Hilt

Communication Faculty Publications

The purpose of this study was to explore attitudes toward sexual harassment by broadcast general managers and news directors. This study asked broadcast general managers and news directors to respond to the Tolerance for Sexual Harassment Inventory (TSHJ; Lon, Reilly, & Howard, 1982) to determine if there were any differences between the two occupation gr014ps. The index score was used as a dependent variable in a multiple regression equation. Four of nine independent variables (view of women's role in society, role of government, physical appearance, and government support) were retained in a stepwise regression procedure. That accounted for 24 percent …

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The Present State Of Sexual Harassment Law: Perpetuating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder In Sexually Harassed Women, Jennifer L. Vinciguerra Jan 1994

The Present State Of Sexual Harassment Law: Perpetuating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder In Sexually Harassed Women, Jennifer L. Vinciguerra

Cleveland State Law Review

This Note will argue that current federal legislation was developed, and has subsequently been interpreted by the courts, with little or no consideration for a victimized woman. Instead of addressing the causes and effects of sexual harassment head on, the legislature has largely ignored the realities of sexual harassment as a traumatizing experience faced by thousands of working women each year. Part H of this Note will address the development and current state of sexual harassment law, as well as the Supreme Court's ruling in Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson. Part III will discuss Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as …

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Internal Dispute Resolution: The Transformation Of Civil Rights In The Workplace, John M. Lande, Lauren B. Edelman, Howard S. Erlanger Jan 1993

Internal Dispute Resolution: The Transformation Of Civil Rights In The Workplace, John M. Lande, Lauren B. Edelman, Howard S. Erlanger

Faculty Publications

Many employers create internal procedures for the resolution of discrimination complaints. We examine internal complaint handlers' conceptions of civil rights law and the implications of those conceptions for their approach to dispute resolution. Drawing on interview data, we find that complaint handlers tend to subsume legal rights under managerial interests. They construct civil rights law as a diffuse standard of fairness, consistent with general norms of good management. Although they seek to resolve complaints to restore smooth employment relations, they tend to recast discrimination claims as typical managerial problems. While the assimilation of law into the management realm may extend …

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Toxic Reproductive And Genetic Hazards In The Workplace: Challenging The Myths Of The Tort And Workers' Compensation Systems, Jean Macchiaroli Eggen Jan 1992

Toxic Reproductive And Genetic Hazards In The Workplace: Challenging The Myths Of The Tort And Workers' Compensation Systems, Jean Macchiaroli Eggen

Fordham Law Review

In this Article, Professor Eggen discusses how various scientific studies suggest a causal connection between workers' reproductive and genetic injuries and their exposure to toxins in the workplace. Because of conflicts between scientific and legal causation standards, workers and affected family members often cannot prove a sufficient causal connection between toxic exposure and ensuing injury to recover under existing workers' compensation and tort laws. Thus, Professor Eggen proposes several specific reforms to both the workers' compensatoin and tort law systems to improve the availability of these relief mechanisms for toxic exposure victims.

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Fertile Women May Now Apply: Fetal Protection Policies After Johnson Controls, Barbara Ruhe Grumet Jun 1991

Fertile Women May Now Apply: Fetal Protection Policies After Johnson Controls, Barbara Ruhe Grumet

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

In its recent interpretation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the U.S. Supreme Court leaves little room for permissible occupational sex discrimination. However, its decision has wider implications. Here, Professor Grumet takes a look at some of them from both a legal and a social perspective, including matters such as employees' reproductive freedom and employers' potential liability for a variety of possible injuries to employees' offspring.

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Aids In The Workplace: Termination, Discrimination And The Right To Refuse, J Scott Kenney Mar 1988

Aids In The Workplace: Termination, Discrimination And The Right To Refuse, J Scott Kenney

Dalhousie Law Journal

Not since the days of leprosy has there been a disease so feared and so fatal as AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome). The lack of knowledge about the disease has merely compounded the problem, so that not only AIDS victims themselves, but also members of perceived "high-risk" groups, face increasing discrimination in all facets of their lives. This paper will focus on only one of these contexts: the workplace. After a review of the current medical knowledge, two principal questions wifl-be examined: (i) What protection does the law give AIDS victims, or members of highrisk groups, against discrimination in employment? (ii) …

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Marternity Leave: Taking Sex Differences Into Account, Nancy E. Dowd Jan 1986

Marternity Leave: Taking Sex Differences Into Account, Nancy E. Dowd

Fordham Law Review

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