Situation B

a question. Anna said "Today l went to lunch with my

Anna approached her manager, Charlotte, who leads human resources at VWEC, with

fiend arah from accounting and two others who are programmers, The wo pOgiaieis, wn$0$ T don't know well, made comments wihih

Wene disturbing, I$\text{'}$l call them P and M$.$ Pand M have been witn the company tor a couple of years and they work for different proin

managers The thing is that both seem to think they have been treated badly at this company because they are women. They think they

Charlotte gasped. and said, "What? That can't be rightl WEC was a great track record when it comes to equity. We both know that we hire

and promote based on merit. You don't beleve that we are unfair to women, do you? For goodness' sake, one of our founders is a woman!"

Charlotte apologizes for her outburst and asks "Please tell me what they said. If there is a problem, then I need to know $"$

Anna replies, $"$P is the only woman on her team and she is the only person in her work group who is not invited to go for drinks after work on

Fridays. She said that one of the guys on the team said that his girl friend was jealous and didn't want him hanging out with other girls after

work and it wasn't personal, but it would be best if P didn't come very often. P said okay to avoid any trouble but after a few ocCurrences it

made her feel left out when the team would be laughing over private jokes that originated in the bar. She was trying to just concentrate on

her work, but a couple of weeks ago her boss put together a sub$-$team to $$o a certain part of the new project, and he didn't pick her even

though it was something she had done before. When she asked why, he said that he tried to pick a group that got along realy well sinee

they would be working a lot of long hours. So now it seems that the fact that she Isnt really close friends with these quys is hurting her

career."

Charlotte asked, "What about M$?"$ Anna replied, $"$M has a different story. She dated someone from here a few times last year. It didn't work

out, but since then there have been three or four different guys who have asked her out. One of them was a manager thouh oh

manager. She turmed them all down, but she is tired of everyone treating, work like a singles bar. She wishes the companv wouid dio

something to let everyone know they should just focus on work, not romance. $"$

Anna added."Those are the main points. I should say that they didnt tej me o tu because l work in HR$.$ This seemed like lunchtime

Venting But thought it might be something I should let you know aboutoTignt Do you think this might be discrimination or

have been victims of dis crimination and maybe even seXual$$harassment$.$"Questions:

$1.$ Assess Charlottes reaction to the information brought to her by Anna. Do you think that this was an ideal response? ls there a more

effective way that she could have responded?

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$2.$ Would the situation with P be considered discrimination or harassment? What about the situation with M$?$

$3.$ If Charlotte wants to talk to either of the two women, how should she approach them?

$4.$ Imagine that you are a consultant advising Charlotte on building an inclusive work environment. How would you go about creating a

diversity and inclusion$$audit$$for$$WEC$?$