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Individual Bias

Individual Bias

Q For purposes of this assignment, imagine you are a co-mediator with “Bill.” You met Bill several years ago, when you were both training to be mediators and developed a friendship. You and Bill have co-mediated on several occasions and have developed a team approach that really works for the information gathering part of a mediation. You play off each other, almost like a “good cop, bad cop” type of interaction. You are currently gathering information prior to the mediation when you start to have a feeling that something isn’t right. The parties to the mediation are Joe, the owner of Joe’s Park Side Restaurant, and Mary, the hostess at Joe’s. Mary is also in charge of the dining room, while Joe manages the kitchen.

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Joe and Mary are having a disagreement about Mary's treatment of certain customers. Mary, on most evenings seems to seat only black people in the area of the dining room close to the kitchen and away from the front of the restaurant, where the best tables are which overlook the park. This situation only come to Joe’s attention when a new server asked Joe to come out of the kitchen one night to look. The new server and Mary have been arguing for several weeks that servers should rotate the sections of the dining room they serve each night.