It is controversial how organizations defend their “values”, when they pass out so much prejudice and restrictions on candidates and eventually, on their employees. I will use one of the most common values “employed” by organizations to make my point: Respect.
It starts when the candidate fills out the job application – either online or in person. What is the real point on asking someone’s color on a job application? Although this is an “optional question”, it has lots of meaning behind it. I do not believe that skin color determines how an individual will do the job. This is indeed a polemic paradigm, with room for hours of argumentation.
Is it ok to express emotions at work? No way! “Professionals” deal with business! Personal issues are not welcome to the office. I honestly believe that happy individuals can add much more value to organizations. Fact is that very deep inside “we all want to find the New and Better Organization” (p. 2) – either 100% professional, or a mix of both. But at the end it is all about multiple perspectives.
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I understand your point about respect - it is an important value that all organizations ought to strive to provide their employees, and also their customers.
However, I do appreciate some organizations requesting the job applicant to provide their gender or color, because as you've noted, providing this information is optional, and does not hurt the job prospects of the applicant in any way. This data is only used by researchers to determine whether or not there exists a bias in the way that an organization screens its job applicants. The society does need to know if there is a bias, and will attempt to eliminate this in the future.
There are plenty of Historically Underutilized Businesses (HUB's) that deservingly benefit from such a discrimination.
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