The Diverse Cultural and Racial Backgrounds in the Workplace Today - Essay Example

Conflicts and some ethical issues are bound to come up, this is usually as a result of one culture or race viewing itself as superior to another which is usually a fallacy (Weiner 21). A very clear example is the racial problem that is experienced in the organisations that have a workforce from different parts of the world and from different racial groups, these organisations however have put in place measures to ensure cases of racism in the workplace are eradicated completely.

In Kelvist insurance company where I work, cases of racism against the blacks who are [perceived as inferior workers have been rampant, one clear example is when an international non-governmental organisation approached our company to offer health insurance services to their workers in war-torn countries of Africa. The department head who would have dealt with such a case was out of the office and his assistant who happened to be a black woman had been left in charge. Subordinate workers especially the whites in the department who had not been comfortable with having a black woman as their boss defied orders to serve the guest from the nongovernmental organisation on the pretext that the assistant department head is an African and therefore unqualified enough to handle a case of such a magnitude with the respectable NGO (Weiner 1492).