EOC Week 3: This Charming Man

So this week we watch a nice little Danish romance movie called This Charming Man. But what caught my attention the most was the discriminations in the movie. There were a large amount of issues of discrimination. The first being is when Lars Hansen (Martin Buch) had been out of work for about two years. Going to interview after interview they all passed him off even though he was really quite over qualified for the job. That being said if you were an employer what you would do if someone hadn’t work in over two years but they had the right qualifications? Would you hire them or look passed them? “Managers have an important responsibility to help their new employees learn about and become comfortable working in the hospitality operation. Whether it is planned or just happens, all newly employed staff go through an adaptation process as they learn about the values of the organization and what it's like to work for it.” The second thing that I noticed was that there were a lot of racism issues between the Danish people and the Palestinian. But the one particular one that stood out was when the El Hassan whom Lars Hansen was pretending to be couldn’t get a job at the same place that he was already working at because of his last name, being not Danish. “It is not uncommon for hospitality employees to challenge even well-designed dress codes on the basis of purported discrimination related to their sex, race, or religion”. What would you do if you didn’t get the job because of your race, age or looks? Lastly, there were a few comments toward women by me. Being sexism, should men be allowed to call a woman that is not your significant other or daughter, SUGAR? “Employees and managers alike want to know that all of the policies and procedures applied to them at work will also be applied, in the same manner, to each of their coworkers. If they do not believe this is true, charges of bias, favoritism, cronyism, sexism, and even racism can result. Therefore, experienced HR managers know they must (1) carefully design and implement any operating policies they wish to utilize, and (2) reliably document their fair and consistent application of those policies.”