Management and discrimination revised

Management and discrimination revised

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Abstract

This paper will assess case studies of unprofessional behaviors and discrimination by professionals and business people. In so doing, it aims at bringing to attention of the reader that such behaviors are unethical and should be avoided for the sake of a harmonious society.

Introduction

Bahrain, a country in the Middle East, is well known for collectivist culture. Based on collectivist theory, collectivist cultures tend to have strong and deep relationships. Under collectivism, people have a tendency of favoring similar groups that share same values and have a common background as them. Besides, there are also other subgroups within the main culture. These affiliations are sect based since Bahrain is predominantly Islam. The major sectarian subgroups are the Sunni and Shiite. Each one of them has its own values and norms, and their members have strong interpersonal relationships.

The sects openly favor and prefer one of their own whenever a choice involving different sects has to be made. To put it in black and white, they discriminate against each other along sectarian lines and racial divide. In the mentioned cases, it was obvious how that concept was applied. In the first case, the manager of the saloon preferred Noor to Eman because she was Sunni. This was despite the fact that she was less qualified.

In the second case, the doctors showed a discriminative behavior toward the injured Sunni students and refused to treat them, just because they were not Shiite as they are. In this case, doctors were sent on an emergency mission, a case in which violence had erupted in Bahrain University. There were casualty cases and doctors were ready to attend to their call and duty as usual. However, it was not business as usual when upon arriving, it turned out that the injured were Sunni. Only one doctor responded to the emergency as others declined to cooperate. Discriminating against the Sunni students was not ethical (Gabriel, 2010) since all doctors are under the Hippocratic Oath to keep patients away from harm.

An overall analysis shows that in Bahrain, sectarianism has been in existence in the society from long time. Sunni and Shiite have lived in separate settlements. Discrimination is not limited to the governmental policies in work place, but also among people in Bahrain community. Shi’ites have for a long time complained of discrimination in Bahrain. They claim that the government distributes jobs and housing along a pro-Sunni sectarian basis. This has risen to the extent that the government grants nationality to Sunnis from other countries to offset Shi’ite numbers.

As can be seen, the first mentioned case was influenced from these circumstances. Although the saloon was not a governmental organization, and has no laws that prohibit hiring Shiites, the manager declined to hire the Shiite Eman since she was not of the same sect as the manager. After the recent crisis between Shiite and Sunni, social discrimination upraised between the two sectarians. In the second case when the Shiite doctors refused to cooperate with the witness doctor, and left him to deal with the situation by himself, they practiced a type of professional bullying and misconduct. They refused to co-operate with him in the emergency, leaving the witness doctor shocked and disappointed.

To summarize, loyalty and commitment are essential values for any job, especially for doctors who oath to exploit their abilities to treat needed people no matter what are the circumstances. In the second case, when the doctors refused to treat the injured student because they do not belong to their sectarian was breaking the nobility of doctor’s job. They showed immoral behavior, and they did not have loyalty to their organization, which can affect organization’s performance (Player, 2010).

References

Player, M. A., (2009). Federal Law of Employment Discrimination. New York: West Publishing.

Gabriel P., (2010). How to Be a Great Leader and a Great Manager Both At The Work Place and At Home. New York: Blue Sky