Dressing for Success

Dressing for Success

Jennifer Cohen age 24, works at a marketing firm. One of her colleague pulled her to the side and was told that she was dressed inappropriately. She was wearing a sleeveless tops and Bermuda shorts. She felt offended and she believes that different generations have a different ideas of acceptability in a workplace. Even after the conversation she was not allowed to attend the meeting because she did dress appropriate. In fact, Cohen's employers was not the only one enforcing formal dress codes but, the bigger businesses such as IBM that had a strict dress code with white dress shirt with a black tie has now been disposed allowing employees to have a relaxing environment which helps employees think more openly. Other industries have also a relaxed dress code such as, Ford, General Motors, Procter & Gamble, and Google have a simple dress code. so that employees can work comfortable. The main focus of this case is to dress for success and Jennifer Cohen does not have the right to be offended because of her outfit, especially when she knew that there was a meeting at the firm she should have prepared herself to be more formal for that particular day. I am sure that an employer provides a list of events, meetings and tasks for a month so that they could be more presentable. In addition, the employer made the right decision to no having her attend the meeting because it could show that the employer was not really expressive with their ground workplace rules. This delivers the message to the other employee and when presenting to another company. Employer do have the right to set a company's dress code because it is the way a company presents itself to the public. It shows that the employer has enough power to make employees dependent. Employees have the right to listen but, that is at their own risk. Employees would be more dependent when there is a dress code and there would be more seriousness in a workplace. One point that Cohen...