Examples Of Favoritism In The Workplace

Most of the companies try their best to avoid discrimination in workplace, because it increase resentment between employees, decrease their morale and good performance, and discrimination occur when the manager takes his decision based on race, gender, religion and age. Most countries have a law that prevents discrimination but unfortunately some companies they just don’t implement it. One face of discrimination is favoritism and according to Business Dictionary website it is defined as “The preferential treatment of a person or group of people over other people or groups in the same unit, such as a classroom, social group or workplace.”

As an example of favoritism in the workplace a story of Sara who is 23 years old, and was born in New Delhi and had spent most of her life in Alberta, Canada due to her father work. After she graduated with a bachelor degree in business administration, she started searching for a job and she found one in marketing agency, Sara was so excited and she like the place and her workmate. After one year of working in the agency her manager decided that she deserves a promotion due to her hard work and her unique skills, so he made her unit manager. In the beginning it was hard for Sara to manage all this work and the new tasks, but eventually she overcame these problems.

Sara has difficulties with the new employee, who specifically refuses to do what she asks for. And she heard from her workmate that he says bad things about her and uses offensive language towards Sara, also he was wondering how can a Canadian company recruit a female Indian ethnic origin and put her in high position, and he encourages his workmate to not listen to her and compline to the management that they don't want her in the company. Sara approaches the Human resource department about this problem and she asks them for