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A 5 page research paper that examines the ageism from an ethical standpoint. The writer looks at the prevalence of age discrimination in business practice. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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-- and should -- in composing their own paper, based on this research, anyway they like.) Discrimination occurs in the workplace whenever one applicant is hired over another, or
one employee is promoted instead of another., In either case, management discriminates between two choices. However, when factors such as sexism, racism, or ageism enter into a hiring, firing,
or promotional decision it violates the law -- a law which is overseen by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) (Richardson, 2002). One business ethicist makes the comment that, at
its core, workplace discrimination involves "adverse decision against employees based on their membership in a group that is viewed as inferior or seen as deserving of unequal treatment, intentional
or unintentional" (Richardson, 2002). But while sexism and racism have been generally acknowledged as ethically wrong, many US firms appear operate as if ageism is perfect acceptable, despite the prohibitions
against it in law. Richardson (2002) points out that, for Christians, unjust discrimination is not only morally objectionable, but it is primarily
wrong because it stands against the revelation of God, "who loves all people and offers them reconciliation through Christ (Richardson, 2002). Scripture instructs the Christian that discrimination , in any
of its various forms, is wrong. Richardson (2002) lists the following verses as illustrating biblical prohibitions against discrimination: Deut. 10:17; 2Chron 19.7; Act 10:34; Romans 2:11; Galatians 2:6; James
2:1-9; 1 Peter 1:17. Zemke (1999) observes that the Chinese revere and honor their elders, but Americans fire them, and consider them redundant.
Americans business runs by the axiom that it can trade in their 60-year-olds for two 30-year-olds and demand three times the work for half the pay (Zemke, 1999). Ageism is
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