Selecting the Right Candidate

A manager considers hiring one of two applicants. He can choose...

Tags: diverse applicant pool, hiring considerations, hiring, race, gender, personal recommendation

Gay Professor

A gay professor experiences offensive comments from colleagues based on some...

Tags: diversity, severe and pervasive, harassment, preventing harassment, ph9, sexual orientation

How About Some Chicken Wings?

Two employees laugh over lunch about ethnic and cultural foods while...

Tags: 194, branching, series, harassment, protected traits, protected categories

Generational Clash

A millenial worker and a generation x worker have different strengths...

Tags: generation x, millenials, preventing harassment, ph9, generations, diversity

Bias & Assumptions

A manager assumes two female employees are gossiping and two male...

Tags: gender, assumptions, bias, diversity, eeo, equal opportunity

The Strategy Session

A manager criticizes his employee for being "too aggressive" and not...

Tags: gender bias, bias, gender, discrimination, eeo, assumptions

Language Conflicts at Work

Three employees work together and two speak Spanish together. The third...

Tags: language barriers, english only rule, english only, english, diversity, discrimination

No Haggling

In response to a customer than won't pay, a manager tells...

Tags: dave, stereotypes, diversity, discrimination, differences, religion

Religion in the Workplace

A manager invites his direct report to a church meeting....

Tags: diversity, bias, religion, eeo, church, discrimination

Stinky Food

An employee offends her co-worker when she comments about the stinky...

Tags: kelly, linda , diversity issues, differences, national origin, diversity

Age Bias in Hiring

A hiring manager has a bias against an older worker and...

Tags: kelly, older worker, old, bias in hiring, hiring, discrimination

The Stutterer

An employee has a speech disability and his co-worker his reluctant...

Tags: disability, discrimination, eeo, equal opportunity, ada, diversity

I'm Not Chinese

A hiring manager tells his new employee about the Chinese food...

Tags: asian, chinese, jason, inclusion, diversity, bias

Family Values

Three employees are chatting about dating and one employee starts complaining...

Tags: sexual orientation, sex, sexual preference, discrimination, diversity, gender

Space Invasion

Co-workers have a conversation and one co-worker requires more personal space...

Tags: harassment, discrimination, differences, culture, cultural differences, 2008