Please respond to the following below…. When reflecting on stereotypes overall in society there are two things I consider. There are positive stereotypes that empower various demographics. On the other hand, negative stereotypes are what catches the most attention. The negative stereotypes have some truth to it and these accusations come from situations that people observe. However, having these stereotypes hinders these various demographics. For example, when it comes to quantitative performance men are said to have better mathematics skills (Shih et al., 1999). When women are identified as having lower mathematics skills, reports say that the performance of those women lowers compared to a control group that did not have the stereotype identified (Shih et al., 1999). I look at these effects of negative stereotypes and many situations in my work place come to mind. There is a particular one that sticks out to me because of how blatantly stereotypical it was. I work at Starbucks and have been for a long time. There was a particular employee of Latino decent and he worked just as hard as the other employees. There was a supervisor that had this employee of Latino decent do all the cleaning an what is classified as “dirty” jobs every time he worked. I was on break one day and heard that supervisor talking to another employee about doing floors and she explained to the employee that she was going to have the Latino employee do the floors. She then continued to explain that she has him do it because “Mexicans always work hard and do not mind doing the dirty work.” Hearing this made me furious and saw how stereotypes exist in many situations, especially in the workplace. Retelling the story it makes me think critically of how there are positive stereotypes and negative stereotypes as explained in the textbook. In this work situation the negative stereotype is very clear. The negative stereotype is that “Latinos don’t mind doing the dirty work.” But, there is also a positive stereotype in this situation. That positive stereotype in this situation is “Latinos always work hard.” Having that stereotype is something that people would praise and think is a very good quality to have. In my work situation, having this positive stereotype led to this employee doing all the hard work because he performed so well in those tasks. This is unfair because only he was doing the hard work and the rest of the employees never had to do this same hard work while he was working. When in comes to stereotyping in the workplace, there are many implications it can have on employees as regards to self-fulfilling prophecies. Self-fulfilling prophecies occur many times in the workplace and this entails when there are false expectations of people and that expectation gets fulfilled (Robbins & Judge, 2015). In other words, having these false expectations usually end in creating that new behavior to make that expectation true (Biggs, 2009). In a workplace, managers tend to exert self-fulfilling prophecies frequently and the prophecies usually become true. I have worked with managers who express these self-fulfilling prophecies both positively and negatively. References Biggs, M. (2009). Self-fulfilling prophecies. The Oxford handbook of analytical sociology, 294-314. Robbins, S., & Judge, T. (2015). Organizational behavior (16th ed.). Boston: Pearson. Shih, M., Pittinsky, T. L., & Ambady, N. (1999). Stereotype susceptibility: Identity salience and shifts in quantitative performance. Psychological science, 10(1), 80-83.
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