Is it bad business for an IBM minority manager to favor minorities and disfavor others or is it discrimination

Question

When asked about a manager who tends to profusely publicly complement his fellow minority employees while relatively relatively inaccessible to others, rarely complementing them and aggressively avoiding acknowledging their work, IBM executes answer that "it is not discrimination, just bad business." Is this a load of hooey or is it a true and sound statement. If someone aggressively avoids acknowledging hard work in any tangible meaningful way of some and aggressively puffs others is it a difference without a distinction to say its not discrimination, it's just bad management

seems to me of late IBM executives are increasingly willing to sweep their mess under the rug instead of deal with it

Answer 1

I think we always have to be on the lookout for discrimination. Many policies were set forward to even the playing field...not favor one over the other.

Answer 2

Definately bad business, and if i'm honest i think that if this exec was not of minority background himself, then he would be pulled up for dicrimination.