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Assignment 3: Evaluating Disparate Impact and Employee Selection

You are employed as an HR consultant for a mid-sized bank. The bank employs 200 tellers across its branches. You need to recommend to the bank what to consider when hiring for the position of Bank Teller. At this point you have completed Assignment 2 and you have created a selection system for the job of a Bank Teller. Now you are moving to Assignment 3 to verify the selection system works properly.

For this second assignment there are two main tasks you need to complete:

Assignment 3: Part A Evaluating Disparate Impact Discrimination

Assignment 3: Part B Reflection on Employee Selection

Both tasks should be included in one document 3 to 5 pages in length, double spaced, use tables when needed, and use APA format for referencing and citing. Include a cover page and a reference page.

Assignment 3: Part A

Evaluating Disparate Impact Discrimination

1. The selection ratios for the three groups are:

Caucasians = _________________________

African-Americans = ___________________

Latinos = ____________________________

2. Does adverse impact exist when you compare the African-American applicant pool with the Caucasian applicant pool? Show your work.

3. Does adverse impact exist when you compare the Latino applicant pool with the Caucasian applicant pool? Show your work.

Assignment 3: Part B

Reflection on Employee Selection

1. You have made a number of decisions in creating, implementing and evaluating a selection system for bank tellers. Which of these decisions do you think is most critical? Why?

2. An employee selection approach to hiring is more complex than hiring employees based on who they know or casually scanning a résumé and asking a few "off the cuff" questions for an interview. When you think about your work experiences, do you think the organizations you worked for took an employee selection approach when hiring?

3. If you answered yes to question 2, do you think the organization was effective in hiring employees? If you answered no to question 2, do you think the organization should have adopted a selection approach to hiring?Explain your response.

4. What do you perceive as the overall advantages and disadvantages of an employee selection approach to hiring?

5. Based on this exercise, would you recommend an employee selection process to hiring for virtually any job? Why or why not?

6. Describe the components of an employee selection process in order to reflect on the fundamental aspects of employee selection your learned from completing Major Assignments 1, 2 and 3. The answer to question 6 should be 2-3 pages long in order to be complete and thorough.

Information related to above question is enclosed below:

Attachment:- Assignment3-120417HumanResources.rar