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Fundamentals of Human Resource Management 6th Edition by Raymond Noe, John Hollenbeck, Barry Gerhart,Patrick Wright
Edition 6ISBN: 978-0077718367Fundamentals of Human Resource Management 6th Edition by Raymond Noe, John Hollenbeck, Barry Gerhart,Patrick Wright
Edition 6ISBN: 978-0077718367 Exercise 10
IS DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THE UNEMPLOYED ETHICAL
Imagine that your job includes identifying qualified applicants to fill job openings at your company. As you compare two resumes, you see that the applicants' experiences are similar, except that one applicant was working until a month ago, while the other's last job ended a year ago. How will you choose between them
Reports and some research suggest that some companies are more likely to choose the candidate who was employed until recently. Some job advertisements have even specified that the company will not consider the long-term unemployed. Practical thinking may be behind the practice: if you assume that someone who has been out of work for a long time has been job hunting, you might suspect that other employers have found reasons not to hire him or her. It seems efficient not to repeat the process of uncovering those problems, whatever they might be.
In most states, the practice is legal, despite some efforts to pass laws against it. At the same time, however, it creates conditions that strike many people as unfair and even cruel to those who are already struggling. Following the severe recession of a few years ago, the short-term unemployment rate has returned to levels experienced before the recession. But for those out of work for at least 27 weeks, the unemployment rate is more than twice as high. Working-age men have been hit disproportionately hard, as job losses were severest in male-dominated industries, especially in jobs requiring less than a college education. The share of men no longer even trying to find jobs has been growing, which has implications for society as a whole.
In response to these concerns, volunteers with the Society for Human Resource Management have developed guidelines to encourage hiring policies that do not discriminate "based solely on their unemployment status." The Obama administration urged businesses to pledge not to discriminate against the unemployed, and several hundred have signed the pledge, including Apple, Gap, General Motors, and Walt Disney Company.
Apply the ethical value of fairness to these policies: is it fair to discriminate against the long-term unemployed Is it fair not to let employers choose employees with a track record of holding a job What hiring policy best achieves fairness
Imagine that your job includes identifying qualified applicants to fill job openings at your company. As you compare two resumes, you see that the applicants' experiences are similar, except that one applicant was working until a month ago, while the other's last job ended a year ago. How will you choose between them
Reports and some research suggest that some companies are more likely to choose the candidate who was employed until recently. Some job advertisements have even specified that the company will not consider the long-term unemployed. Practical thinking may be behind the practice: if you assume that someone who has been out of work for a long time has been job hunting, you might suspect that other employers have found reasons not to hire him or her. It seems efficient not to repeat the process of uncovering those problems, whatever they might be.
In most states, the practice is legal, despite some efforts to pass laws against it. At the same time, however, it creates conditions that strike many people as unfair and even cruel to those who are already struggling. Following the severe recession of a few years ago, the short-term unemployment rate has returned to levels experienced before the recession. But for those out of work for at least 27 weeks, the unemployment rate is more than twice as high. Working-age men have been hit disproportionately hard, as job losses were severest in male-dominated industries, especially in jobs requiring less than a college education. The share of men no longer even trying to find jobs has been growing, which has implications for society as a whole.
In response to these concerns, volunteers with the Society for Human Resource Management have developed guidelines to encourage hiring policies that do not discriminate "based solely on their unemployment status." The Obama administration urged businesses to pledge not to discriminate against the unemployed, and several hundred have signed the pledge, including Apple, Gap, General Motors, and Walt Disney Company.
Apply the ethical value of fairness to these policies: is it fair to discriminate against the long-term unemployed Is it fair not to let employers choose employees with a track record of holding a job What hiring policy best achieves fairness
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