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
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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.
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Inc.
Submit your assignmentto the Dropbox.