a. How can prejudice damage an organization? HUMAN PREJUDICES It is important to

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a.     How can prejudice damage an organization?

HUMAN PREJUDICES It is important to recognise that 'prejudice' - the subjective and unfounded attitudes adopted towards particular people, products and services - are a fact of human existence and behaviour. Most prejudices are harmless. For example, people who choose only to wear blue clothing are exhibiting a form of prejudice, as are those who always vote for a particular political party. Supporting a football club is a form of prejudice, as is always using the same supermarket for grocery shopping. Prejudices against particular members of the community are abhorrent, however, and unacceptable in organisations. It is repugnant, and also illegal, to treat people with less respect on grounds of gender, race, disability, membership/non-membership of a trade union or spent convictions for a criminal offence. It is also ethically and morally abhorrent to treat people differently and with less respect on the grounds of age, sexual orientation, marital status, physical appearance, the way they speak or the place in which they live. It is both abhorrent and illegal to allow bullying victimisation, harassment, and physical and verbal assaults. Organisations that allow repugnant forms of prejudice invariably suffer from low morale, and declining levels of output. Organisation cultures become weak and divided, as people gang up on the particular oppressed individual or group; and as those who are being oppressed seeks the means to fight back.

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Prejudice can damage organization because it can be a type of racism. Just because an employee has certain background it doesn’t necessary mean he will act on a specific way, for example just because someone is from Mexico it doesn’t mean he is a drug dealer, chances are it is a good person who worked hard to be where he is.

Organizations need to avoid any type of prejudice if they want to succeed and retain good employees.

You don’t want to be losing employees due to prejudice because it is unethical and it will cost too much money as well.

It can hurt financially and ethically.

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