Create a double spaced 1 page in length minimum for each of the two scenarios.
Scenario1
After being rejected for a promotion four times, Clara Watson, an African American employee, sued her employer under the provisions of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. This Act prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of race, religion, gender, or national origin. Ms. Watson had a compelling case.
In all four instances the promotions had gone to white employees. Her employer had relied primarily on the subjective evaluation in ruling MS. Watson unfit for promotion. During the trial, evidence was presented showing that the employer had no minority directions. Only one minority supervisor and paid minorities low wages. The employer did not challenge the claim that it based promotion on subjective judgments.
Ms. Watson invoked the theory of disparate impact in charging her employer with discrimination. However, the court required claim disparate treatment instead because the employer had used subjective evaluation procedures. The court denied Ms. Watson's claim, saying she had failed to prove intentional discrimination, a criterion for disparate treatment. The appellate court reviewed the case and upheld the lower court's ruling. However the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the appellate court's decision and returned the case to the lower court to be retried on the basis of disparate impact. The Supreme Court ruled that subjective evaluations can be submitted to the test of disparate impact.
• Do you think the case will be ruled differently using disparate impact as the basis? Why or why not?
• Could the employer have handled this situation differently and avoided litigation? How? What do you see as the supervisor's role in this situation?
Scenario 2.
You are the floor supervisor in a manufacturing plant. You have been asked to forecast the staffing needs for a job that will involve producing 5,000 metal backpack frames over a period of just sixty days. Assume it takes one hour fifteen minutes to make one backpack frame. Forecast your staffing needs. Now, assume that you will hire temporary full-time employees. Identify an agency in your community you might work with.
Review "DEFINATIONS AND EXPLANATIONS OF THE TERMS" Need to be 4- 6 lines in length
Create a double spaced 1 and a ½ pages in length responding to six questions
Questions:
1: Define the term quality.
2: What is the "dynamic state" element of the definition of quality
3: What is the definition of Total Quality?
4: What are the key elements of Total Quality?
5: How is total quality different?
6: What is the supervisor's role in quality improvement?
Respond to the scenario below in one page double spaced.
Scenario:
2. Tom Yader has two types of people on his team---those who disagree with each other most of the time and those who disagree all of the time. Yader does not mind his team members disagreeing. In fact, sometimes their disagreements actually reveal problems, issues, and Possibilities he had not considered. But lately disagreements have become personal and bitter. Team members have begun to divide themselves into warring cliques based on race, gender, and age. They complain about not knowing what the team is supposed to achieve or how it will be evaluated. They bicker with each other over even the smallest issues. Yader has a "tiger by the tail" and is not sure how to proceed.
• Analyse this situation. What broad categories of problems will Yader have to deal with?
• Put yourself in Yader's shoes. How would you Proceeds? What would you do first? Next? Next?