Linked Activity II \"Know Your Rights as a Job Seeker or Employee\" As you may h

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Linked Activity II "Know Your Rights as a Job Seeker or Employee"

As you may have learned from other business courses or from your reading in this course an important HR activity of most managers in an organization is interviewing applicants for positions, which report to them.

Research has revealed that many questions asked of applicants discriminate against females and minorities and often are not job related.   Hence, it is critical that managers are sensitive to and understand the types of questions, which are legally permissible or impermissible to ask applicants during the interview process, to prevent problems or violations in laws on fair employment practices.

Directions:

1. If you are the Head of the H.R. Department of a company with 100 employees, how would you respond in the following scenarios: YOU MUST ANSWER BOTH SCENARIOS!

Scenario 1

Prepare a list of questions you might ask a prospective job applicant so that they do not violate federal laws. Prepare both a list of general questions and questions you would use in a " behavior-based" interview. Answer whether you can engage in pre-employment tests, background checks, polygraphs, and credit reports. List any applicable federal laws on these topics.

                          and do Scenario 2 as well- do both!

Scenario 2

You want to fire an employee who is a female, 43 years old, one of two black employees and who is gay. You seek the advice of your personnel department. What might they say is the appropriate manner to approach this employment situation?

3. Save your work in word document or RTF file and submit your answer using the assignment link below.

Explanation / Answer

Scenario 1 :

The following are the list of questions where an interviewer can ask their applicants which covers general questions to analyze the basic behaviour of an individual and also covers federal laws:

1. Can you tell me a little about yourself?

2. What do you know about the company and how can you do needful to your position?

3. What are your professional strengths?

4. How will you consider your weakness as your strenth, can you explain with any of your real life situation?

5. How do you rate yourself that you are suitable to this position ?

6. State any one quality of yours, after hearing that we have to choose to hire you ?

7. What type of working environment do you prefer?

8. How do you deal with stressful situations ?

9. What are your expectations through this job?

10. Do you have any questions for us?

Equity law and Judicial Decisions are the two applicable federal laws which comes on this and also yes by basing the above questions we also can analyze the applicant whether they are good to go and initiate the pre-employment process or not (Background checks and Drug testing process).

Scenario 2:

When you want to fire employee : firstly make a note of the reason why you want to fire and soon after you find a solution make sure you are having a retention interview with the employee so that you can have their perspective for the same situation and also through their performance in work you can easily analyze them so no need of taking advises from personnel department. By analyzing in this way you can easily know whether you have to fire or not.

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