Affirmative Action in Workplace There are many forms of discrimination still present in the modern day world. Many of these instances take place during the daily operations of business. The objective of this paper is to highlight the concept of affirmative action in the workplace, and explain why one person of gender or race would be hired over another more qualified for the position just to fulfill hiring requirements, while using Kantian and Utilitarian ethical …showed first 75 words of 952 total…

…showed last 75 words of 952 total…is keeping them from the ultimate goal of equality. Sources Cited 1. "Affirmative Action at the University of California at Berkeley Online. October 28, 1996. http://pwa.acusd.edu/~e_cook/ucb-95.html "Civil Rights" Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia. (1996). 2.Nebraska Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Private Sector Affirmative Action: Omaha. Washington: 1979. 3.Introduction - A Pluralistic Approach to Moral Theory by Lawrence M. Hinman Excerpted from: Lawrence M. Hinman, Contemporary Moral Issues, 2nd ed. (Prentice-Hall, 1999).