On Political Correctness and Affirmative Action
I’m so behind today. But when I see an article like this about political correctness and affirmative action, I have to respond. Here’s the article: When does good management become a hostage to political correctness?. Here’s a quote When confronted, the team member did not deny the scheme. Easy decision for the manager, right ? Now consider this. The employee was female, a member of a visible minority group and visibly pregnant. The manager was older, white and male. The team member threatened to sue for age, gender, minority and pregnancy discrimination if she were terminated for cause. She suggested she would widely broadcast her dispute with the company on social media, damaging the company’s brand and highlighting what she felt was its “politically incorrect” behavior. However, if the company chose to make its side of the story public first, it would surely be castigated for poor supervision, poor use of shareholder’s resources and poor management of suppliers. This was my response: I don’t know how this works in Canada ( I know Sam is Canadian, but I don’t know where you’re from Don.) But if this happened in the US, the company isn’t bound, by law or by policy, to cave to the threat of a lawsuit, for political correctness or any other reason. So if you follow the law, the first question is moot, because 1- at no time should good management be hostage to political correctness, and 2- this has absolutely nothing to do with political correctness.