Nancy Warner, the CEO of Community Hospital in rural Oklahoma, was concerned about a situation involving an employee, Joe Trosh. Joe, a maintenance worker, was carrying a concealed handgun at work. He said it was for self-defense because he had been harassed by coworkers for visiting a nearby Native American casino and for his Native American heritage. An investigation revealed that other Native American employees who visited the casino had also experienced harassment. Nancy was disturbed by these developments and wanted to determine if Joe had the right to carry a concealed weapon at work.

1. Sitting in her office late on Friday afternoon, CEO Nancy
Sitting in her office late on Friday afternoon, CEO Nancy Warner thought about how happy
shewas to have the job. “The opportunity to do what I love to do and find ways to make
CommunityHospital a great place to work has given me purpose in life,” she thought.
Community Hospitalin rural Oklahoma is the only hospital immediately accessible to the
area’s 40,000 inhabitants.Nancy Warner grew up on a farm in the area, went to a local
community college to be a nurse, gota master’s degree in health management, and a year
and half ago became the CEO of CommunityHospital. She loved the opportunity and
believed that part of her job was to make employees feelappreciated and enable them to be
good
employees.Later, on Friday afternoon, Nancy’s good week changed suddenly. HR Dire
ctor Ted Perrybrought to her attention a problem with employee Joe Trosh. Joe, a m
aintenance worker, hadbeen reprimanded by his supervisor for his tardiness, and during a
meeting with HR Director Perryto discuss his attendance problems, HR Director Perry
noticed a bulge under Joe’s work jacket. Upon inquiry, Joe stated that he had a permit to
carry a concealed handgun. He went on to saythat several of his fellow employees were not
easy to get along with and on occasion they might“fly off the
handle.”He wanted to be prepared just in case something happened. He pointed out
most of themaintenance workers were “good old boys” with gun racks in their pick-up
trucks that they hadparked in the employee parking areas. Joe told HR director Perry and
his supervisor, “the lawallows me to carry a concealed weapon for self-defense
purposes.” Joe Trosh was on occasionhad been subjected to “Addiction jokes” from fellow
employees. He is Native American andenjoys going to the casino nearby and gambling in
general. He speaks often of his gamblingpursuits to his co-workers. Some of the hospital
employees did not appreciate the presence of agambling casino at a nearby reservation
because the casino provided little tax revenue to the localcommunity yet provided an
unhealthy, addictive behavior.Joe had worked for the hospital for approximately five years
and was considered to be a competentemployee. An investigation revealed that several
other Native American employees who visitthe nearby casino said they had been “harassed
by co-workers” for indulging in an addictionto gambling. Nancy Warner was disturbed
about these developments.1. Do you believe that Joe Trosh has the right to carry a concealed
weapon in the hospitaldue to being harassed for visiting casinos?Part IA: The Purpose of the
Report and the ProblemThe purpose of the report is to solve the problem of whether or not
Joe Trosh has theright to carry a concealed weapon in the hospital as a reason for self-

2. defense againstdiscrimination and harassment from the staff of a rural hospital in
Oklahoma. According to theU.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, harassment
is “ PLACE A STATEMENTFROM https://www.eeoc.gov/harassment”The Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission outlined that “harassment ’’ on thebasis of
race/color discrimination means [Write in your own words the EEOC definition
forharassment here. Check this link to help you explain the
definition. https://www.eeoc.gov/racecolor-discrimination ]Hirsch (2018) stated
regarding the impact of discrimination on , “Write a statement from theHirsch Article
here. Check out this link for help: https://www.shrm.org/ResourcesAndTools/hr-
topics/behavioral-competencies/global-and-cultural-effectiveness/pages/taking-steps-to-
eliminate-racism-in-the-workplace.aspx”Harassment based on stereotypes can affect an
organization’s decision making process inmany ways such as [Write in your own words haw
harassment based on stereotyped canaffect an organization’s decision making process.]It is
important for managers to have knowledge of the Second Amendment right to beararms
and U.S. Supreme Court Cases that examined this issue because it will protect the
hospitalfrom legal issues [Mention the name of a U.S. Supreme court case on the
SecondAmendment Right to bear arms. See this link for more
information:https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/second_amendment]A potential legal issue
the Supervisor must consider is how to handle discipline decisionsthat involve employees
who have experienced discrimination through harassment by co-
workers. According to the Oklahoma Self-
Defense Act, it is “ Place a quote from the Oklahoma Self-Defense Act. See this link for
more information of the Oklahoma Defense Act or page 4 ofthe lecture notes on Part 1 A of
the research project.”Part 1B The Research ExperienceTo perform my research, I began
with online research. I used Google and searched for articles on[Write the various topics or
issues that were discussed about the case scenario here.]. I havefound five sources that
were helpful in completing my report. The article [write the name of anarticle either listed
in 1A or found by you that discusses one of these topics: right to bear harms,discrimination
or harassment based on discrimination], explains that [finish this sentence with ashort
explanation of the article.] The article, [mention the name of the article] is useful for PartII
and Part III of my report because [Give a final reason why this article will be help for
writingthe recommendation section of the research project].The Cornell Law School
websites provide information for [ write an explanation on howthis website is helpful] . This
resource will be useful for Part IV, when I’m making my personalperspective.I also found it
helpful to read [name the statue for the Oklahoma Defense statute and whyit will be useful
for your research]My last resource is the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. This
website
explainsin detail the legal issues of [write the legal issues here and how this informat
ion is helpful for research.