Discussion:
Diversity Efforts Focus on Ethics
To increase diversity, it is often legal to consider race or gender as a factor in selecting employees. Although legal, do you think it is ethical that race or gender be a factor in making an employment decision? How much of a role should it play?
Is it ethical to hire a person with a lower test score because he or she seems to be a better personality fit for an organization?
If an I/O psychologist is employed by a company that appears to be discriminating against Hispanic people, is it ethical for her to stay with the company? What ethical obligations does she have?