What Is Gender Stereotyping In The Workplace
The organization our group decided to pick for the consulting project plan is Northtown. This company is a widely recognized automotive dealer in Western New York. Northtown started out as a single Toyota dealership and has grown to include seventeen separate franchises including Toyota, Mazda, Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, Ram, Lexus, Subaru, Hyundai, Land Rover Range Rover, Volkswagen, Kia, Scion, Volvo, Porsche, and FIAT. Although Northtown has a good reputation for building honest relationships, providing excellent customer service, and a great overall vehicle experience, an organization with so many facilities, and so many departments within each facility, there is room for many issues to arise in the workplace. Our group figured that Northtown
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This can be defined as believing unfairly that all people or things with a particular characteristic are the same. Two particular problems come to mind when this problem is mentioned: gender stereotyping and age stereotyping. When a new employee is hired, or even with experienced employees, gender stereotyping is a prevalent problem. If employees see a female being hired, versus a male being hired, on average they figure that the male knows more about cars; therefore believe that males could be a larger asset to the company. However, this is wrong, as there are many females working for Northtown, who have more experience and knowledge in the career than many of the men combined, going against the gender stereotype.
Age Stereotyping is also noticed in the workplace. Many times it is noticeable that customers will approach younger car salesmen versus older salesmen. This may be because of the thought that a younger, less experienced salesman will be able to get a lower price when compared to the older, more experienced salesman who better understands the system. This stereotype is also wrong, as there is no difference with the age of the car salesman, although many customers perceive
This can be defined as believing unfairly that all people or things with a particular characteristic are the same. Two particular problems come to mind when this problem is mentioned: gender stereotyping and age stereotyping. When a new employee is hired, or even with experienced employees, gender stereotyping is a prevalent problem. If employees see a female being hired, versus a male being hired, on average they figure that the male knows more about cars; therefore believe that males could be a larger asset to the company. However, this is wrong, as there are many females working for Northtown, who have more experience and knowledge in the career than many of the men combined, going against the gender stereotype.
Age Stereotyping is also noticed in the workplace. Many times it is noticeable that customers will approach younger car salesmen versus older salesmen. This may be because of the thought that a younger, less experienced salesman will be able to get a lower price when compared to the older, more experienced salesman who better understands the system. This stereotype is also wrong, as there is no difference with the age of the car salesman, although many customers perceive