Jsi Shipyards

1.BUSB-300

3. Jacksonville Shipyards

4. Week IV Analysis

Summary

NP5. Lois Robinson, a welder with Jacksonville Shipyards, Inc. (JSI) filed suit for sexual harassment against JSI on September 2, 1986. 6.JSI was a federal contractor that repaired ships for the United States Navy. 7.JSI was under obligation of its federal contract to adopt a policy of “Equal Employment Opportunity” which reads

NP8…” we should all be sensitive to the kind of conduct which is personally offensive to others. Abusing the dignity of anyone through ethnic, sexist, or racial slurs, suggestive remarks, physical advances or intimidation, sexual or otherwise, is not the kind of conduct that can be tolerated” (Boatright, 2011, pg. 158).

NP9. JSI failed to make the policy well known throughout the company and did not provide the name of the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) coordinator to all employees.

NP10. Lois throughout her many years of employment was subject to many different forms of personally abuse by her coworkers. 11. The abuse ranged from explicit nude images of females in the common areas to the words “Men Only” on the door of a common meeting room.

NP12. Lois complained to management about the behavior of her coworkers and the inappropriate photos that were displayed. 13. Management did not enforce the correction of any of the violations according to the EEO policy, but continued to allow the behavior that was rampant amongst the male employees at JSI.

Prerequisites of Moral Culpability

NP14. There are three prerequisites for moral credit or culpability as discussed in class. “1) Does the actor have knowledge of the moral/ethical issue? 2) Did the actor have the ability to positively and significantly affect the issue? 3) Does the actor have too much to lose by acting?” (Dr. Laura, 2015).

NP15. The actor in this case is JSI its employees, agents, and all other personnel that has knowledge of such deplorable ethical behavior. 16. The actor did have knowledge of the actions of its employees. 17. Merriam Webster defines Knowledge as an “awareness of something” and “information, understanding or skill that you get from an experience or education”. 18. Lois made aware to her supervisors about the photographs and visual displays that were posted around the workplace. 19. A supervisor of Lois “pointed out that the company had no policy against the posting of pictures and claimed the men had a constitutional right to do so.” (Boatright, 2011, pg. 158.) 20. It can be inferred the President of JSI should of known that the JSI policy book did not incorporate the requirement of informing its employees of EEO. 21. The evidence of Lois supervisor making such a statement proves that he was aware of the harassment and had no intention of correcting the issue.

NP22. The actor did have the ability of positively and significantly affect change of the issue. 23. The actor could have changed the issue at hand in a multitude of ways. 24. Most significantly the actor could of made the policy of sexual harassment well known throughout the company. 25. JSI could of made the EEO coordinator known to all employees and encouraged notifying him/her of any violations. 26. JSI had the obligation to take immediate corrective issues once being notified by Lois of the visual displays within the shipfitters trailer. 27. JSI failed to make any change within its organization to stop the blatant harassment of the females within JSI. 28. Not only did JSI have the ability to demand that its employees cease the harassment of its female cohorts, but its should of immediately refused to accept any further female degrading calendars, dart boards, or other media that violated EEO policy.

NP29. The question of “Did the actor have to much to lose by acting?” is rather subjective. JSI had to consider its suppliers, customers, male employees and other support staff within its business model to ensure their overall level of comfort with JSI. 30. The industry of shipbuilding and repair was a male heavy environment where “less than 5 percent of the shipyard workers were female” (Boatright, 2011, pg. 158). 31. If JSI was to create an environment where harassment of females was not permitted and not tolerated they could of lost camaraderie amongst their peers. 32. The employees could of desired to work in a more lax environment that allowed them to act in this behavior. 33. JSI had to much to lose by possibly losing their workforce. 34. JSI would of also lost significant profits