Keller MGMT 520 – Week 5 Assignment
Week 5: AssignmentIn each week the learning assignment is designed to demonstrate your competence with theTerminal Course Objectives of the course. Prior to working on the assignment, you should readthrough the week’s chapters and lesson.Clearly identify your work with your name, the date, the week number, and the assignmentname, and upload work to the Dropbox.The questions are designed to probe the higher levels of thinking and learning such asanalyzing, evaluating, and creating, and so there often are no correct answers. Instead offocusing and who wins or loses the case, you should analyze, evaluate and create alternativesolutions to the various issues presented while arguing and debating the connections betweenbusiness, law, politics and ethics.Terminal Course Objective: DVideo Case Study: Equal Opportunity in Employment—Isiah Thomashttp://media.pearsoncmg…./pcp/devry/mgmt520/BLaw2013_Equal_Opp.m4v Watch the video case study and then write a one- to two-page reflective paper (doublespaced) on the following questions while discussing the connections between business, law,politics, and ethics.1. Discuss whether there should be a different standard of behavior in the workplace comparedto personal relationships.2. According to the video, Isiah Thomas put his arm around the victim, tried to kiss her on thecheek, called her sexually charged names, and made her feel uncomfortable on the job. Discusshow a court should determine what constitutes sexual harassment and what does not. Shouldculture play any part in that determination?3. As part of this case, Madison Square Garden had to pay the victim because of retaliation –she was fired for reporting the sexual harassment. In this case, the jury determined sexualharassment occurred, that she complained to the appropriate parties, and was fired for that.Given the dollar amounts discussed in the video, discuss the risk that false sexual harassmentclaims might be filed and what might be done to prevent that.
