Provided a rationale for the worker you have recommended should be laid-off.

An Experiential Exercise: Laying Off Workers Every supervisor, at some point in his or her career, is overdue and uncollected accounts that you had likely to be faced with the difficult task of laying off thought should be written off as a loss. employees. Assume that you are the supervisor in the Lisa Parks: White female, age 35. Lisa has been with your accounting department of a 750-member organization. company seven years. Four years ago, Lisa was in an You have been notified by top management that you must automobile accident while traveling on business to a permanently reduce your staff by two individuals. The customer's location. As a result of the accident, she following are some data about your five employees. was disabled and now uses a wheelchair. Rumors Janet McGraw: African American female, age 36. Janet have it that she is about to receive several million dol- has been employed with your company for five years, lars from the insurance company of the driver that all in the accounting department. Her evaluations hit her. Her performance the last two years has over the past three years have been outstanding, been above average. She has a bachelor's degree in above average, and outstanding. Janet has an MBA accounting and specializes in computer information from a top-25 business school. She has been on short Charles Thomas: African American 'male, age 43. systems. term disability the past few weeks because of the birth of her second child and is expected to return to work Charles just completed his joint master's degree in in twenty weeks. taxation and law, and recently passed the bar exam. Bill Keeney: White male, age 49. Bill has been with you He has been with your department the past four for four months and has eleven years of experience in years. His evaluations have been good to above aver- the company in payroll. He has an associate degree in age. Five years ago, Charles won a lawsuit against business administration and bachelor's and master's your company for discriminating against him in a degrees in accounting. He's also a CPA. Bill's evalua- promotion to a supervisory position. Rumors have it tions over the past three years in the payroll depart- that now, with his new degree, Charles is actively pur- ment have been average, but he did save the company suing another job outside the company. $150,000 on a suggestion he made regarding using Given these five brief descriptions, make a recommen- electronic time sheets. dation on which two employees you will suggest to your Jos Melendez: Hispanic male, age 31. Jos has been boss be laid off. Discuss any other options that you feel can with the company almost four years. His evaluations be used to meet the requirement of downsizing by two em- over the past three years in your department have ployees without resorting to layoffs. Discuss what you will been outstanding. He is committed to getting the job do to (1) assist the two individuals who have been let go done and devoting whatever it takes. He has also and (2) assist the remaining three employees. Then, in a shown initiative by taking job assignments that no group of three to five students, seek consensus on the ques- one else wanted. And he has recovered a number of tion who gets laid off. Be prepared to defend your actions