Problem:
The company you work for is considering changing its applicant testing process. Your supervisor has asked you to address the following in a document that will be sent to other managers within the organization.
Q1- Write a short essay discussing some of the legal and ethical considerations of major types of tests: cognitive abilities, motor and physical abilities, personality & interests, and achievement tests. Given these considerations, which testing system do you believe may be the most legitimate? Remember to compare and contrast testing methods specifically to demonstrate how the methodologies you have not selected may have more negative ethical and legal consequences than the one you have selected.
Q2- In your answer also discuss ways in which advancements in technology have helped to make the applicant testing and selection process more efficient and effective.
Comments:
This essay focuses on how to select employees using pre-employment testing, and the importance of ethics in using tests. In additional to the legal issues, you must identify discuss the ethical issues. Discussion of the ethical issues is required for this assignment. I recommend that you separate the legal issues from the ethical issues in your discussion. Make use that you compare and contrast different types of testing in both your legal and ethical analyses.
This assignment also requires that you discuss the ways in which technology has made increased the efficiency and effectiveness in testing. This issue is addressed throughout Chapter 6. You can add more depth to your paper by using evidence from additional outside sources.