Prejudice in Workplace: Real

or Perceived?
Submitted to:-
Prof. Meenakshi Malhotra

Submitted by:-
Balpreet Kaur Ankit Kumar
Ajitesh Bhasin Anmol Sharma
Akhil KaulAshay Dhoundiyal
Akshit Agnihotri Ashish Negi
Ankit Bhaskar Ayush Rai
Meaning of Prejudice

“An unfair and unreasonable

opinion or feeling, especially
when formed without enough
thought or knowledge.”
Intro to case
Manjula Srivastav- Head of Marketing at Blue Chips,
a computer product firm for last 4 years. In her tenure
company’s turnover increased by two and half times at
time when computer price had been crashing.

But one problem that she faced was of male

dominance. She was troubled by the fact that she had to
prove herself regularly at work.

Six months ago, Blue chips had been taken over by

industrial group.
Intro to case (contd.)
Due to which new managing director was introduced —

Anand Prakash, who had one priority “Blue Chips

Will export was his first concern for which he had brought
Harish Naik as executive assistant with special
responsibility for exports. Initially Harish was assistant to
Srivastav for five weeks.

Within two months he was appointed as Vice

President (exports) with higher perks and compensation.
ucturing plan in his mind.
Intro to case (contd.)
Srivastav made a formal protest against the
same and Prakash assured her that she will get a
suitable position once the restructuring is done. One
morning she was called by Prakash to discuss her
promotion.
He wanted to make her a General Manager for
public affairs as he thought that she has an excellent
background in customer relations and connection
with dealers network. She was dissatisfied and
rotested as she wanted to be Vice-President
Marketing (Domestic).
Intro to case (contd.)
Her protest did not work as Prakash was quite
rigid on his decision and told her that if she wants to
continue in marketing she would have to report to
Harish Naik.
Srivastav retorted on the same as she had already
proved many a times that she was best in marketing &
pointed Prakash if he would do the same to a male
colleague.
Prakash defended his decision by stating that its a
restructuring plan and he find that the post he is
offering is the best in the organization for her. And she
finally ended the conversation by saying that she needs
time to revert on this and will give the decision on the
next day.
Problem Statement
What she faced was male dominance.
She was troubled by the fact that she had to
prove herself regularly at work Place.
Prakash brought Harish Naik as executive
assistant with special responsibility for
exports. Initially Harish was assistant to
Manjula Srivastav for five weeks. Within two
months he was appointed as Vice President
with higher salary and compensation.
Problem Statement (contd.)
● She was dissatisfied and protested as she wanted
to be Vice-president Marketing(Domestic)
● Her protest did not work and Prakash told her that if
she wants to continue in marketing she have to
report to Harish Naik.
● She finally end the conversation and left the
organization.
Argument - Manjula
● She is very competent in marketing and had
brought a lot of positive results for the company
in this domain.
● She had to prove herself on each and every
point in the company which made her feel that
she has been discriminated.
● Her experience was relatively more than Harish
Nayak in the company.
● Since Nayak had worked under Manjula and he
had been seconded to Manjula for five weeks
as a part of familiarisation program and yet he
was appointed as a vice president within two
months.
Argument - Prakash
● Prakash thought that Manjula would be more
competent and a better manager in the domain
of public affairs.
● Manjula would directly report to Prakash at this
position.
● If Manjula remains in the domain of marketing,
then she would have to report to Harish Nayak
that might make her less valued in the company.
● By giving her the work that Prakash himself was
doing before, he showed trust in her and her
abilities.
Recommendations
In my point of view Srivastav
should continue with job. Because if she
switch over the company, she is not
sure whether she will face same type of
problem in other company or not. As
Prakash in newly appointed Managing
director in the company, he has its own
perception which she should try to
change by proving herself.
Conclusion
We conclude that Prejudice in
work place is perceived and its not
real, from case study it clear
Manjula had developed a
perception that there is always a
male dominance at work place but
that not true she has made this
perception due to her experience as
she had to prove herself many
times, so we conclusion that
prejudice in work place is perceived
and its not real.