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...racial discrimination at Texaco demonstrates the need for affirmative action and minorities at the top levels of organizations. To assume that qualified minorities cannot be found is ridiculous, especially when racial and ethnic minorities constitute a large proportion of the U.S. population. The diversity of backgrounds and interests that minorities bring to an organization outweigh any disadvantage of affirmative action. Besides, affirmative action is not a quota system, and so there are no rules that minorities must comprise a certain proportion. Instead, affirmative action ensures that minorities actually reach the top and are able to make decisions for organizations. Although...
...upper ranks of organizations. Prejudice stems largely from ignorance, which we are often accustomed to think of as intellectual ignorance. But ignorance also means unfamiliarity. Since these executives had deliberately kept minorities out of the top ranks, they were not used to working with them on equal status. Texaco did have an official affirmative action policy; had it actually ensured that minorities were at the top as well, Texaco could not have instituted a glass ceiling. They would not have had to work so hard now to remedy the situation...
Employees at Texaco Inc. had noticed the glass ceiling for some time. But the idea only became accepted when tapes revealed that senior executives used race as a factor in determining promotions. In most cases, the existence of glass ceilings are very difficult to prove, and minority employees who brush up against the glass ceiling are not so lucky to have their fears confirmed by a tape...
...attest, bigots of all sorts must rue the invention of tape recorders, which often provide undeniable proof of the prejudice that lurks behind the tolerant face they would like the public to see. The most recent example: the transcript of a meeting in August 1994 between senior officials of Texaco Inc. that wound up last week on the front page of the New York Times. The palaver was surreptitiously taped by one of the participants, former Texaco personnel director Richard A. Lundwall, who turned the recording over to the plaintiffs in a racial-discrimination suit after he was later fired...
According to the transcript, the executives openly discussed shredding minutes of meetings and other documents that were sought by black employees in order to bolster their charges that Texaco discriminates against minorities in promotions and fosters a racially hostile corporate environment. "This diversity thing, you know how black jelly beans agree," remarked Texaco treasurer Robert Ulrich, who is now retired. To which Lundwall replied, "That's funny. All the black jelly beans seem to be glued to the bottom of the bag." Ulrich complained about a demand from black workers for recognition of Kwanzaa, the black holiday, saying...