Overweight and Job Discrimination

Overweight and Job Discrimination

1.Researchers have debated whether people are overweight because they are poor or are poor because they are overweight. How might these two factors affect each other? Please justify your response.

Your response must be at least 200 words in length.CITED

2.The association between excess weight and higher absences, medical fees, and benefit costs is clear. What is the meaning of this relationship regarding weight discrimination for the many individuals who are overweight and for organizational policymakers? How should organizations address weight-based discrimination, given these clear, costly associations?

Your response must be at least 200 words in length.Cited

Chapter 15: Weight and Appearance
Bell, M. P. (2012). Diversity in organizations (2nd ed.). Mason, OH: South-Western

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The issue of overweight in poverty stricken families is becoming increasingly a major health issue in the last few decades.  In trying to meet the needs of everyone, the world has evolved to provide low-income earners with foods that are cheap and equally easy to prepare. Unhealthy eating is the primary cause of overweight among low-income earners…
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