EOC Week 3: This Charming Man

This week in Human Resource Management we watched a danish movie called This Charming Man. In the movie there was a lot of discrimination. The movie starts off with a man named Lars Hansen trying to find work, so he gets set up with a class that has nothing to do with him, instead his name got mixed up with someone else name, so Lars calls the immigration center and talks to the lady, he gets frustrated and calls the lady working a peasant who needs to go back to where she comes from. Managers should use zero-tolerance harassment policies to take action even for offensive conduct that does not meet the legal standard of a harassing environment. The reason is that even mild forms of harassment that go unchecked can disrupt an operation through decreased morale and productivity and increased employee turnover. (Chapter 10 pg. 356)Another act of discrimination was when a bar tender was saying a racist joke. For example he tells a joke to the guys sitting at the bar that a bomb went off in Pakistan,  and asks if they know how many died, then replies "No one because they were all here on welfare. " HR managers can take disciplinary action against employees who occasionally use obscene language or tell off-color jokes, even if that conduct would not generally constitute illegal harassment unless the employees engaged in it on an ongoing basis.(Chapter 10 pg.356) Another act of discrimination during the movie was the print shop did not hire immigrants because they prefer a danish male with blonde hair and a charming danish name. The following situations indicate activities that could lead the EEOC to conclude that age discrimination is present in a hospitality operation. The boss wanted younger-looking, more attractive females (or males) for front-of-house positions, so older workers were not hired. (Chapter 9 pg. 327)