Large business organizations report an escalation in episodes of "desk rage," in which employees or angry ex-employees act out their frustrations violently by disrupting the workplace, and often increasing other workers' alienation in the process. Describe any incidents of "desk rage" that you may have heard about or experienced. What do you think can be done to solve the problems of alienation in the workplace?

According to the Cambridge Dictionary, Desk rage is extreme or violent anger shown by someone at workplace, especially when this is caused by worry or a difficult situation. The occurrence of desk rage is thought to be a function of various sources of stress.  For example, lost tempers, shouting matches and fistfights can be induced by overwork and crowding.

I heard about the following desk rage accident:

Costas worked long hours in cramped quarters at an Internet company in New York.  He continually had to deal with rushed deadlines, but he kept a check on his frustration over the work demands and his work environment.  One day his boss pushed him one time too many and Costas unloaded with an obscenity-laden tirade.  He quit his job one week later commenting, “Sometimes you just snap.

In addition to high work demands, many workers are finding themselves more cramped for space than ever before.  Perhaps due to cost-containment efforts and the price of commercial real estate, the average number of employees per square foot is at a peak level in many office spaces.  In addition, many employees commute long distances and by the time they reach their demanding and cramped work environments, they are already frustrated, if not irate, from battling traffic congestion.  The problem of stress appears to be more of an issue in larger organizations with approximately a third of employees in organizations with more than 1,000 people reporting that they are “at least somewhat” stressed whereas 16 percent of employees in organizations with fewer than 100 people report this level of stress.

A good approach to solving and managing the problems of desk rage should be by limiting working hours. The managers and decision makers need to realize the stressful environment under which the workers are working and should try best to limit the amount of hours being worked.

            Also, periodic relaxation is much needed to ease out the act of desk rage. Desk rage does not occur in a single day incident. Usually it is an accumulated explosion. Hence plan to take a few minutes off work to relax.  For instance, General Motors Corporation offers meditation and tai chi at is workout facilities.  At its tax center in Indianapolis, Ernst & Young has included golfing areas, fish tanks, and a recreation room where workers can nap.

Think about behavior in the context of sporting events. There are some sports, such as swimming and cycling, for which males shave body hair. Is this act seen by the public as a norm violation if it is done to make the athlete perform better?

Although a few people begin life with an unclear sexual identity, the overwhelming majority begin with a definite sex and quickly receive societal messages about how to behave. In fact, virtually all societies have established social distinctions between females and males that do not inevitably result from biological differences between the sexes (such as women's reproductive capabilities).

Gender role is defined as expectations regarding the proper behavior, attitudes, and activities of males and females. The application of dominant gender roles leads to many forms of differentiation between women and men. Both sexes are capable of learning to cook and sew, yet most Western societies determine that women should perform those tasks. Both men and women are capable of learning to weld and to fly airplanes, but those functions are generally assigned to men (Schaefer, 2006).

Sports have commonly been classified as masculine, while some sports are deemed to be feminine. In some aerobic sports like swimming and cycling men have to shave the body, which is one of the rules of this sport competition (Thinking Made Easy, 2009).

One of the main reasons why swimmers shave is to increase their speed. Shaving off body hair makes a swimmer's body smoother, thus creating less drag in the water. Though shaving may only trim a few fractions of a second off a swimmer's finishing time, in a close race, that difference could prove to the margin of victory (Brown, 2012). Besides removing the dead skin cells, shaving body makes the swimmers feel faster in water.

Significantly hairy men may find that their body hair generates a lot of heat, which can lead to excess perspiration and body odor. Shaving armpit hair, chest hair or even hair around the genitals can reduce sweating, and make men feel cleaner, especially in the summer heat (Lynn, 2011).

Society has a lot of stereotype about different gender behavior. Whereas, the public sees shave body as normal process for the swimmers, however when a men is not in a competition they see it as a norm violation, because only girl should shave the pubic hair. Furthermore, one way to see the difference between man and woman is on the amount of the pubic hair, man tends to have more pubic hair than woman.

To sum up, shave body for athletes is not considered as norm violation. Swimmers shave their body to increase the speed, to generate less heat, and also to remove the dead skin cells. Out of competition, man should not shave the body hair, because it is considered a norm violation.

Explain how the issue of sweatshops gives rise to an issue that combines women's rights, immigrant rights, environmental concerns, and human rights.

A sweatshop is a negatively connoted term for any working environment considered to be unacceptably difficult or dangerous, where workers often work long hours for very low pay, regardless of laws mandating overtime pay or a minimum wage. Child labor laws may be violated. Sweatshops may have hazardous materials and situations. Employees may be subject to employer abuse without an easy way, if any, to protect them.

The drastic increase and re-surface of sweatshops has been due to the need to increase the economy of a nation and also due to economic globalization.

Several multinational corporations have developed a tradition of moving its production and manufacturing of materials to less developed countries in order to take advantage of cheap labor and to avoid scrutiny from governments and human rights organizations. In these countries, labor unions whose aim is to protect the rights of the workers do not exist, so therefore, the workers who are subjected to harsh working environment, low wages have their human rights violated.

Sweatshops have been a major topic of human rights and women rights violation due to the fact that most of the employees are women who are mostly young and uneducated. Young women throughout the world are exposed to harsh working conditions with countless and frequent injustices because corporations, like those owned by the United States can get away with it. Also, many of these women are undocumented immigrants who are unaware of their legal rights.

Furthermore, sweatshops violate women's human rights throughout the world through the low wages being paid which is unable to meet basic standard of living, low standard and unsafe working and living conditions, long hours of overtime for which employees are not compensated, and frequent sexual harassment. In addition to that, women are often forced into enslavement.

            Also, another issue of sweatshops is the environmental concerns which have arose from their structure of operation. Several Multinationals have been noticed to cause a lot of environmental problems such as contamination of source of water supply and poisoning of the rivers from careless oil spills. These careless actions have hindered and sometimes cost the livelihood of the habitats of an entire city.