racial discrimination? and...?

Question

Homework Case:
White Doctor works at the same hospital as a black nurse. The nurse gets crush on the doctor (doc married with kids)starts leaving him provocative messages, sends flowers, ect. He has no reason why this nurse is doing it. He goes to his supervisor and tells him the situation. supervisor brings in the female and says:
" The doctor is very uncomfortable with the personal attention you are showing to him, and then asked her to please not continue to exhibit her show of affection for the doctor".
The supervisor was then shocked to hear there was a lawsuit against him and doc for racial discrimination. She lied to attorney and said the supervisor said, "its not right in this hospital for people of different races to be romantic. (lie)
1. do you think the supervisor handled the situation well with the female conversation?
2. Do you think the female has a basis for a sexual harrasment claim? why
3. what would you do now to avoid this situation again (supervisor)?

Answer 1

1. yes to an extent, that is what he should have told her- basically to stop. but he should have had someone else present or had her sign something verifying their conversation.

2. No she has no basis for a claim because she was the one making the advances and making a hostile working environment for the doctor.

3. Find the best attorney available. Make changes for dealing with future complaints (like having another party present or the contract thing, also ask the attorney what changes they could make to avoid similar future situations)

Answer 2

1. No see below.

2. No. Because nothing in your statement of what happened gives any indication that discrimination occurred. However if I were the person assigned to look into this for the company, I would talk to other employees looking for any indication that they have discriminated in the past.

3. Whenever a supervisor has a meeting on a sensitive subject(sex, race, sexual orientation) he/she should aways have another person present. That person should be at an equal standing or pay grade as the supervisor. It would be even better were that additional person be of the same race, gender or sexual orientation as the person being supervised. That is necessary because people do discriminate.