Week 5:
Assignment
In each
week the learning assignment is designed to demonstrate your competence with
the Terminal Course Objectives of the course. Prior to working on the
assignment, you should read through the week’s chapters and lesson.
Clearly
identify your work with your name, the date, the week number, and the
assignment name, and upload work to the Dropbox.
The
questions are designed to probe the higher levels of thinking and learning such
as analyzing, evaluating, and creating, and so there often are no correct answers.
Instead of focusing and who wins or loses the case, you should analyze,
evaluate and create alternative solutions to the various issues presented while
arguing and debating the connections between business, law, politics and
ethics.
Terminal
Course Objective: D
Video
Case Study: Equal Opportunity in Employment—Isiah Thomas
http://media.pearsoncmg.com/ph/streaming/bp/2013/business_law/BLaw2013_Equal_Opp.html
Watch the
video case study and then write a one- to two-page reflective paper (double
spaced) on the following questions while discussing the connections between
business, law, politics, and ethics.
1.
Discuss whether there should be a different standard of behavior in the
workplace compared to personal relationships.
2.
According to the video, Isiah Thomas put his arm around the victim, tried to
kiss her on the cheek, called her sexually charged names, and made her feel
uncomfortable on the job. Discuss how a court should determine what constitutes
sexual harassment and what does not. Should culture play any part in that
determination?
3. As
part of this case, Madison Square Garden had to pay the victim because of
retaliation – she was fired for reporting the sexual harassment. In this case,
the jury determined sexual harassment occurred, that she complained to the
appropriate parties, and was fired for that. Given the dollar amounts discussed
in the video, discuss the risk that false sexual harassment claims might be
filed and what might be done to prevent that.
Copyright
© 2013 Pearson Education, Inc.
Submit
your assignmentto the Dropbox.
