Air Aces: Gender Discrimination Cases

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Air Aces as company, hired Tyrone Williams as its CEO to resolve the complaints regarding insensitivity of key employees on issues of diversity which include gender, ethnicity, and religion. Complaints came from airport clients because airport employees lack cultural awareness yet they interact with diverse groups of customers. Consequently, this insensitivity is alleged to have negatively impacted the hiring and promotion decisions within Air Aces. Therefore, the objective of the paper is to develop methods of addressing these sensitive issues.
Andersen and Taylor (2007) state that diversity encompasses the variations in areas such as religion, ethnicity, beliefs, family status, sextual orientation, national cultures, region of residence, experiences, education, …show more content…

Because of realizing some benefits of diversity, some big companies have promoted women to leadership positions such as Andrea Jung CEO, of Avon products, Virginia Rometty, CEO of IBM, and Indra Nooyi, CEO PepsiCo and others. However, their overall percentage is still low. The advantages brought by diversity include fewer lawsuits. Some organizations loose huge amounts of money due to diversity related issues such as gender discrimination. A typical case is Ledbetter v. Goodyear 2007. Lilly received low rankings in annual performance, and low raises compared to her colleague (Lind et al., 2016). Her case let to the signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Had this company implemented the diversity and cultural competence, it would have avoided this lawsuit. Again, diversity increases marketing capabilities because diverse workforce can develop a wide range of customers due to wide connections (Esty et al., 1995). Because of diverse workforce with different experiences, backgrounds, and ideas, diversity is assumed to increase

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