Assignment task: Staffing Challenge - The Limitations of Using AI in Hiring at Amazon & discussion questions #5 & #6, p. 120.
Exercise #2, p. 120 - Read the opening Staffing Challenge showing their algorithms have biases against hiring women for tech positions. As an Amazon employee how would you answer these question:
1. What were the core problems with the algorithm?
2. What staffing laws are relevant to this situation?
3. What would you want to know and what would you try to do to overcome the challenges and a usable, and legal, hiring algorithm for Amazon?
4. Which 3 general barriers to legally defensible staffing do you feel are most common? What can companies do to remove these barriers?
5. Which ethical theory do you feel is the most relevant to most staffing decisions? Why?