Assignment 2: The Hiring Process and Managing a Diverse Workforce

worth 400 points

Imagine that you are the HR Director at your current organization or an organization with which you are familiar. As the HR Director, you must use different employment law requirements to create methods and policies that support the promotion of a diverse workforce. Select one (1) job opportunity that you have held or with which you are familiar within the same organization for this scenario.

(Note: You may create and / or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of these assignments. In your original work, you may use aspects of existing processes from either your current or a former place of employment. However, you must remove any and all identifying information that would enable someone to discern the organization[s] that you have used.)

Write a ten to twelve (10-12) page paper in which you:

1. Develop three (3) recruitment methods for the job opportunity in question, and suggest two (2) ways that each method helps one to avoid discriminatory practices. Justify your response.
2. Outline an application process that details the organization’s method of accepting all applications, as well as its method of validating applicants’ attainment of the required credentials (e.g., reviewing resumes, collecting transcripts, verifying certifications, etc.) for the job opportunity.
3. Develop a five- (5) step procedure for the HR Department to use in order to maintain all applicants’ records in case a discriminatory charge occurs.
4. Decide on three (3) background checks that the HR Department must utilize, and justify the relevance of each background check for the job opportunity.
5. Choose three (3) employment tests (e.g., drug tests, medical examinations, HIV tests, generic tests, polygraphs, honesty tests, psychological tests, intelligence and skills tests, and physical fitness, etc.) that the HR Department should use. Justify the relevance of each selected employment test to the job requirements.
6. Formulate a policy for making both the hiring and promotional decisions related to the job opportunity. Specify the major challenges and potential adverse impact of using subjective criteria for assessing soft skills. Next, suggest one (1) plan to mitigate the adverse impact. Justify your suggestion.
7. Recommend two (2) types of reasonable accommodations for both disabled applicants and applicants needing special religious considerations. Argue two (2) legal reasons for not being able to sufficiently provide such reasonable accommodation for each group.
8. Select one (1) case in which a court charged an organization with an affirmative action violation and one (1) case in which a court charged the organization with not managing harassment issues more expeditiously. Recommend an action plan geared toward preventing the issues addressed in both cases within your selected organization. Justify your recommendation.
9. Choose three (3) work-life conflicts that the HR Director should consider within the selected organization. Then, outline a policy geared toward resolving each conflict through the use of related employment laws. Justify your response.
10. Use at least four (4) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Determine employment laws that apply to the selection, development, and management of employees.
• Evaluate policies and processes that promote a diverse workforce.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in employment law.
• Write clearly and concisely about employment law using proper writing mechanic.

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Give a short answer to each question (Use whole sentences!) 1-10.

1. The reading lists three qualities that can be used to describe and categorize “cool” jazz. What are they?

2. What Qualities are listed as “things to listen for” when hearing Miles Davis’ Boplicity off of the Birth of Cool album.

3. How many gigs did the Miles Davis Nonette of the Birth of Cool sessions actually play and where?

4. John Lewis played in the Birth of Cool sessions and went on to lead and spend the majority of his recording career with what group?

5. The Dave Brubeck Quartet’s big hit was what and what was the name of the album it was on?

6. Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker are noted “west coast cool” musicians. They have some notoriety today for what their group didn’t have. What was it and what did that do?

7. Who is Stan Getz and what style (or genre) is he credited with popularizing and bringing to jazz?

8. Who sang the female, English vocals in “The Girl from Ipanema”?

9. Was there an actual “Girl from Ipanema”? If so, what was her name?

10. You have listened to several cool jazz tunes over the course of this unit. Describe the cool sound in general and give some opinions on what you think of the style. (What did you like or not like about it? Which artist did enjoy the most or least and why? Etc….)

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1.Tool Selected:

2. What makes this a Tool?:

3.The Tool’s connection to design theory:

4. Structure Selected:

5.What makes this a Structure?:

6.The Structure’s connection to design theory:

7.Sign Selected:

8.What makes this a Sign?:

9.The Sign’s connection to design theory: Explain how the sign selected above connects with three of the following design concepts: design elements, design principles, Gestalt principles, Maslow’s hierarchy, and the communication model. Please be specific and use critical thinking in your answer.

Reference book：Designing：A Journey Through Time

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Assignment 2: Design ConnectionsLong periods of inactivity may cause your session to timeout and your submission to fail. If you have left this window inactive for more than a couplehours, you are highly advised to save your answers in an external text editor, leave the page, then return again to retype your answers and submit.Design Connections is an assignment that encourages an awareness of the design world that surrounds us each day. It asks the student to connect designtheory to design practice by way of pre-selected images and to explicate three of the examples within the context of Tools, Structures and Signs.Instructions1. Download the Assignment Bundle ZIP file2. Choose 3 images from the images provided; one each for Tool, Structure, and Sign3. Consider what constitutes Tools, Structures and Signs in the Artificial World and the connection of design theory and principle to design practice4. For each of your choices, you are asked to make a connection between the course material and the real world of design by way of the Tool, Structureand Sign selected5. Answer the questions below, being sure to follow the rubricThe designs that you see in this image are signs, but not because theyare material structures. They are signs because they use designelements to create a visual statement to both signify and symbolize amessageDELTACONooble Roman’s PIZZACOFFEEDreyer’sWGrand Ice CreamWomenchnikorSUBWAYFOOD CMIRT 1BEN 1 458

Publix grocery store in Palm Bay West, FL. That’s where it all started. We have family in Florida and we go there about 5 times a year, it’s probably my favorite place in the world. It’s a really cool place where you can see bodies of water in any direction you look. The sun was fairly bright outside but still a little cool, around 3:00 in the afternoon. “Do you want to come grocery shopping with me? I believe Dan is working today? My grandma asked from across the room. I agreed, we love Dan, he had been a family friend for quite a while.

That day, there weren’t many customers in the grocery store, it had been busier before. As normal, we went shopping and said hello to Dan. My grandmother and I were shopping at a grocery store, and I speak Serbian while I’m with her so that’s easier for her to comprehend as she doesn’t speak much English anymore. We continued walking around buying food for dinner that night. Lasagna, my favorite. A man walking by us near the checkout kept staring. I was confused and he looked angry. I let it go. Maybe he was just having a bad day I get those sometimes, I thought to myself.

He walked up to us. “Who is that Grandma?” My young self asked. “I’m not too sure hon.” whispered my grandmother. He yelled “Speak English or go back to wherever you came from, you are a disgrace to this beautiful country where you were never meant to be born, or you should at least speak the language you were born to speak… your white” He screamed several hateful words after that which left my young mind puzzled. I couldn’t understand what was happening. It replayed over and over in my mind. “Get behind me, Miha.” That’s what my grandmother told me, what made me realize how afraid she was and what showed me she was going to defend me from what was occurring. We all just kind of stared after this.

My grandma begged the man not to speak such things in front of me. “Sir, if you don’t leave right now I’m going to call the police and throw you out.” “We here do not accept hatred!” That showed me that Dan was going to help protect us from something that I still didn’t understand. As these statements were made, you could see the faces of bystanders and cashiers. You could smell the grocery store, the outdoors as the doors opened and closed automatically, the food in the store, and the hateful man’s cologne.  You could hear the man shouting, Dan trying to defend us, witnesses screaming at him, and my grandmother’s words ordering me to stay behind her. It wasn’t more emotional than a physical thing, but I felt how terrified she was as I held onto my grandma as she told me to get behind her and it was like I felt every emotion flowing through her. I didn’t taste anything. I hadn’t said a thing, my throat was so dry, it was as if no words could come out no matter how hard I tried.

Dan, the store clerk/manager and acquaintance that we had known for so long, had threatened to call the police unless he left. After a lot of fussing and fighting the man eventually left. Even though the issue was over, I still didn’t know what feelings I was supposed to feel and I can’t imagine how my grandmother felt. My grandma grasped Dan tightly and said thank you immediately after the man left. Thank you, Dan! Following my grandma, I repeated, although I really had no idea what I was grateful for.

My grandma took me to the car after we left the shop. I saw her tan cheeks flustered as if she’d seen a ghost. “That man said mean words to us Grandma B, but… I stuttered…what did I do wrong, I didn’t mean to upset him.” As my Grandma put me in the backseat she said firmly, “Oh honey you didn’t do anything wrong”. While I was sitting in the back seat, she stood outside the car leaving the door open. “Honey, it wasn’t your fault what happened there, the world doesn’t like different, Miha.” She went on to tell me and show me the risks of life. She taught me that not everyone loves everyone the way they really should. “There are good people like Dan in this world, like mom, dad, me, and your brothers… as much as I hate to say that there are cruel people in this world… people like that guy in the store who hated us simply because…we’re different.” I listened carefully to the words she said, I wondered why she didn’t say me.

“Different” the word played through the rest of the day through my young impressionable mind even though I’m not completely sure why. I understood what it meant. I’ve heard it plenty of times in classes. I learned the word is more than things in school I thought it did. For everybody, the word goes. I asked her glumly as we pulled into the driveway, “Why didn’t you say me.” “What’s that?”, she asked, not understanding what I was referring to. “When you said the good people in the world you never mentioned me.” “Because you’re extraordinary Miha”, my Grandma said to me. I didn’t know what that meant, but by her facial expressions, I believe it’s good. We came into the house, put the few groceries away, and out walked my father. We had discussed the matter with him. Instantly he shouted, “We need to find that man, how dare he disrespect my family like that.” “No! My son I did not raise you to such violence,” shouted Grandma B. She explained to us that a lesson is to be learned by this and nothing is solved by violence.

I realized he just misjudged us. My grandmother came here from Serbia legally, and my parents, my siblings, and all of us were born here. So maybe if that man would’ve taken a second to know us he wouldn’t have had to hurt anyone in the store. They say that the United States is the world’s melting pot, with diversity everywhere but I didn’t see that anywhere.

That day we were misjudged, and while it took me a while to realize what happened there, I think I was influenced by it. It taught me a lot, it showed me that not everyone in this world is nice and life will throw stuff at you like hateful people or challenges that you need to conquer. I’ve noticed that not everyone in this world is going to be okay with the person you are and where you come from and that’s okay because the ones who love you care and that’s all that really matters.

Can someone look over and check my essay? Its about stereotyping/racism