A black boss, a black sheep?

In 2002 Steve Schifferes, a  journalist of the BBC, did a research on racism at British workplaces. Therefore he used a poll on the site ‘BBC news online’. 

One of the results of his study is that racism is much higher at work than in other places. I don’t think that this is something strange. At work, you are obliged to work together with whoever your boss wants to. So you have contact with people that you maybe don’t like: customers, but also colleagues. A racist can do what he wants in his private life, but in his work life he or she has to follow the rules.

Another quite remarkable result was that one in three said “that people didn’t  want to work for someone with another race”. I wouldn’t mind working for such a person as long as that person is a good employer. In my opinion, it isn’t your race that determines how well you work, but your capabilities. 

Martijn De Meyer

(link to the article)