Racism in workplaceAndManaging Diversity

The Webster Dictionary defines racism as the assumption that the characteristics and abilities of an individual are determined by race and that one race is biologically superior to another. Any form of racism implies discrimination. In the twenty first century, although, the whole world pursues the fairness, it still alive and well in every aspects of our life as the major dilemma of societies. And it has changed from before with the perception of globalization. The major reason is the movement of immigration. “Racism is an integral, permanent, and indestructible component of this society (Bell, Derrick 1992)?and the “immigrant workers are its new victims (TEKÝN AKILLIOÐLU 1997). It is not difficult to find out the common phenomena that racism persists in the workplace and what it reflects are access to employment, working conditions, harassment, dismissal and equal pay.

Racism affects decision making about employment in the recruitment process. This includes fill out applica...