With people from diverse ethnic and social backgrounds entering the
             workforce, corporate world needs to make adequate changes in its various
             policies to successfully embrace the changing face of the workforce and to
             be able to create a friendlier, more flexible organizational culture. In a
             company where these changes are not easily accepted, discriminatory
             practices exist, which give rise to the issue of employment discrimination,
             whereby certain disadvantaged groups become victims of biased
             organizational policies. In other words, it is clear that American
             workforce is turning into a more diverse element, which is likely to
             revolutionize the way organizations work and implement policies. But this
             diversity of workforce creates alarming potential for employment
             discrimination. Discrimination not only affects the organization that
             refuses to embrace change and move with it, but also seriously hurts the
             individual who becomes its victim. Employment discrimination adversely
             affects the blacks, minorities and women but I also believe that
             discrimination affects men and women almost equally though the causes may
             vary. For example while women face more employment discrimination due to
             their gender, men may counter the same problem due to disability or disease
             (Coleman et al. 1993). But in some studies, it was also found the gender
             may be a cause of discrimination for men too especially in the cases where
             immediate supervisors were females. I have not encountered discrimination
             directly because my employment experience is still limited but I have heard
             my friends and some acquaintances complain of employment discrimination.
             Since the cases sexual harassment and racial discrimination frequently make
             headlines, there is no way we can deny its existence and the fact that
             discrimination continues to plague our corporations even today. This brings
             us to the question, what exactly is employment di...