Review the following questions reply in 100-200 WS for each question.

 

Ch. 3

 

EEO Legislation

 

1. EEO legislation was prompted by significant social events. List at least two of those events and describe how they influenced the passage of various EEO laws. 

 

 

An Ethical Dilemma

 

2. You were recently hired as information technology manager, and one of your first tasks was to prescreen candidates for an IT position with a subsidiary. After interviewing 20 candidates, you recommend to upper management a minority person as the most qualified, and he should be invited for a second interview. A day later, you are taken aside by a friend who suggested that you should not waste management's time by sending certain types for an interview. The intent of the message was clear: if you want to be accepted as a team player with this company, you had better get with the program.

1. What would you do?

2. What factor(s) in this ethical dilemma might influence a person to make a less-than-ethical decision?

 

3. What is the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures? To whom do the guidelines apply? What do they cover?

Joe Alverez has filed a complaint with the EEO alleging that his employer, Universal Mortgage Company, promotes more whites than Hispanics into managerial positions. Explain the statistical methods used by the EEOC to investigate this adverse impact claim.

4. Understand how the EEOC affects companies and what you must needs to be a manager to appropriately respond to the administrative rules and regulations published in the Federal Register.

As a marketing manager, you have recently turned down Nancy Conrad for a position as sales supervisor. Nancy believes the denial was due to her gender, and she has filed a sex discrimination charge with the EEOC. Explain the steps the EEOC will use to process the charge; include Nancy's options during the process.

5. Affirmative action is both a legal and emotional issue affecting employees and employers. Develop as many arguments as you can both supporting and opposing affirmative action as an employer policy. If you were asked to implement such a program, what steps would you follow?

 

 

 

 

 

Ch. 5

 

Workforce Demographics

 

6. What are some important domestic demographic changes currently affecting HRM? How does HRM effectively respond to these changes? What must be done to improve responses? What may be done to address gaps cause by these changes?

 

 

Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures

 

 

7. What is the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures? To whom do the guidelines apply? What do they cover?

 

 

8. Explain how career management programs integrate the needs of individual employees and their organizations.

 

9. Explain why diverse recruitment and career development activities are important to companies.

 

10. Describe the methods firms use to recruit externally and internally.