PREP CARD KEY TERMS (Continued) Graphic rating scale Hale error Home error Individualment phase Maintenance Paired comparison method Performance appraisal Performance management Simple ranking method ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN HR MANAGEMENT Assume that you are a marketing executive in a major corporation. You need to hire a new staff member to fill a position that just been created. The members of your current staff are not interested in the position de not have the requests for the position or already have comparable or better positions. Thus the person you select wil come from outside your work group You love asked the human resource department to help idently the possible Candidates from inside the organization. You have met with each of these people and thoroughly reviewed their educational background perence performance Career paths and other qualifications. You have done person because of lack of fit but you now face a complicated decision between the other two specifically, you see thern as relatively equal in tam of potential. The real problem, however, is one of divers sity and equal opportunity One candidate han Alican American feel You perly committed to equal opportunity for minorities and have a reputation for members of protected classes whenever appropriate you are far with this candidaturebon. You see that the candidate has received performance is consistently in the range of on your f's polne rating scales. But because of your knowledge of her boss, you know that these numbers ay mean that her performance has been in the age of 434 the boss rates everyone on the lowe-your opinion about point below where others would rate them The other candidate a white male indiperomance appraisal ratings have been in the angel - You also know this person's boss very well and believe that these scores are pretty accurate as it becauses bons always does a fer objective and equitable job in her performance Your dema is whether to select the white male on the basis of the numbers or to lect the African American female on the basis of what you think the numbers molly mean. Although you have the authority to make this decision yourself, you want to make sure that you can defend it in the event that the individual selected questions how and why you chose the other individual for the position QUESTIONS 1. What are the ethical issues in this situation? a. What are the basic arguments for and against selecting each candidate! What do you think most managers would do? What would you do? BEYOND THE CLASS A selection of materials can be found in the retructor Manual ASSIGNMENT Purpose The purpose of this week to help you develop insights into the pro cess of developing performance app methods and systems. As background, conceptul low performance works in a typical course such as the one you are taking now. The instructors the ter, and the students are the lates Instruktors generally use some com bination of exams, tests papers and class participation as the basis for evaluation and then provide the formal appraisal in the form of a better grade Step at your instructor wil ask you to for small groups of four to five mones Step at Working with your group members develop three alternative methods that an instructor mights evaluate your performance. Try to match your methods to those discussed in Chapter whenever possible Step 3: Evaluate each method you developed in terms of its potentiale fulness. Identify the strengths and weak nesses of each method relative to the traditional system Step 4: Discuss and develop responses for the following Questions What barriers might exist to the adoption of one of the new methos you developed 2 What limitations characterize the traditional system? Do any of you methods overcome these limitation 3. Af your school, do students et F 23 3 3 3 3 MODA