Need a 250 word discussion post for my class. The class is Industrial/Organizational Psychology.
Topic: Understanding Affirmative Action
The personnel director at East High School thinks she is in big trouble. Ten years ago, 30% of the residents in the county were Hispanic yet only 5% of the school employees were Hispanic.
To remedy this situation, the school system developed an affirmative action program in which at least 40% of all new hires were to be Hispanic. The program had been working well because today 25% of all school employees are Hispanic compared to 28% in the qualified work force.
Last week, however, a white employee who wasn't hired for a teaching job filed a lawsuit challenging the legality of the affirmative action plan.
Tory Bolton claimed that he was more qualified than the minority applicant who received the job. Bolton had a 3.4 college GPA and three years of teaching experience whereas George Lopez, the minority applicant, had only a 3.2 GPA and two years of teaching experience.
Should the personnel director be worried? Why or why not? Use the flowchart on page 105 of your text (Figure 3.4) as a guide. Be sure to discuss your decision at each step of the flowchart.
Flowchart below
Was there history of discrimination ----------NO----------> Plan is illegal
Or YES
Does the plan benefit only people who were actual victims of discrimination? --------------YES--------- Plan is prob. Legal
Or NO
What population was used to establish goals ---------Area populations--------- Plan is illegal
Or Qualified workforce
Did affirmative action method trammel rights to nonminority's-----------YES---------- plan is illegal
Or NO
Is there an ending point to the plan -------NO------plan is illegal
Or YES
Plan is legal