MHR 600 Chapter 4: Session Four Readings
19 Oct 2015
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There are several reasons for this discrepancy: appropriate incomes for employees: men occupy most management and ownership positions, and they make the decisions on the, women are disproportionately employed in occupations viewed as an extension of their household, many women find themselves in what is called a double ghetto. this occurs when a woman both works for a wage and undertakes housework, including looking after the children and the needs of her husband. duties, such as teaching, nursing, and social work. Structural changes in the workplace: key arguments are that, the elimination of hierarchies and formal reporting systems has pushed responsibilities (such as whom to consult or inform) from structural elements to individuals, thereby opening the door for biases to affect decisions, the use of teamwork provides more opportunities for subtle biases to play a role, performance evaluations increasingly focus on processes and social and emotional intelligence whose evaluation is more subjective than that of outcomes and technical expertise.
