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| Issue 1 Is Affirmative Action Still Necessary? |
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| Yes: from "Race Matters: Court Preserves Affirmative Action---Preferences in Admissions Survive, but Justices Condemn Point System---Win for Business and Military," Wall Street Journal (June 24, 2003) |
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| No: from "Should Affirmative Action Policies, Which Give Preferential Treatment Based on Minority Status, Be Eliminated?" BalancedPolitics, www.balancedpolitics.org/affirmative_action.htm (2009) |
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| Issue 2 Will the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA) Be Abused in the U.S. Workplace? |
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| Yes: from "Labor Lawyers: Changes to Americans with Disabilities Act May Lead to More Workplace Discrimination Suits," Nation's Restaurant News (October 2008) |
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| No: from "Make a Resolution: ADA Training," HR Magazine (January 2009) |
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| Issue 3 Is the "Living Wages" Concept the Best Answer for High Employee Turnover among Lower-Skilled Employees? |
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| Yes: from "Wage Laws See Varied Results over 14 Years," The American City & County (October 2008) |
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| No: from "States and Cities Square Off over Living Wage Laws," HR Magazine (March 2004) |
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| Issue 4 Should Employees Be Allowed to Wear Symbols of Faith to the Workplace? |
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| Yes: from "Religion at Work," HR Magazine (December 2008) |
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| No: from "When Religion and Work Clash," Supervision (September 2007) |
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| UNIT 2 TALENT ACQUISITION |
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| Issue 5 Are Social Networking Sites Good Recruitment Sources? |
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| Yes: from "Get Social, Get a Job," Computer World (August 2009) |
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| No: from "The End of Privacy?" Scientific American (September 2008) |
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| Issue 6 Are Personality Tests Good Predictors of Employee Performance? |
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| Yes: from "Selecting Employees Based on Emotional Intelligence Competencies: Reap the Rewards and Minimize the Risk," Employee Relations Law Journal (December 2008) |
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| No: from "Theory and Practice: Personality Tests Aim to Stop `Fakers'; Some Say Tool's Accuracy Could Be Improved to Make Misrepresentations Harder," Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition) (November 6, 2006) |
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| Issue 7 Would Mandatory Background Checks for All Employees Reduce Negligent Hiring Lawsuits? |
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| Yes: from "Get a Background Check," SDM (October 2007) |
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| No: from "The Trouble with Background Checks: Employee Screening Has Become a Big Business, But Not Always an Accurate One," BusinessWeek (June 2008) |
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| Issue 8 Is Cognitive Ability Testing a Good Predictor of Work Performance? |
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| Yes: from "Smart Selections," HR Magazine (December 2007) |
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| No: from "Emotional Intelligence and the Quality Manager: Beauty and the Beast?" The Journal for Quality and Participation (January 2009) |
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| UNIT 3 WOMEN IN CORPORATE LEVELS |
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| Issue 9 Does the Glass Ceiling Still Exist in U.S. Organizations? |
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| Yes: from "Gender Bias Found to Start Early in Career," Workforce Management (June 2009) |
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| No: "Breaking the Glass Ceiling," Black Enterprise (February 2009) |
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| Issue 10 Do Women Make Better Business Leaders? |
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| Yes: from "Cultivating Female Leaders," HR Magazine (February 2007) |
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| No: from "Women and the Vision Thing," Harvard Business Review (January 2009) |
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| UNIT 4 EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE AND ORGANIZATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY |
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| Issue 11 Does E-Learning Actually Promote Employee Learning and Development? |
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| Yes: from "The Role of Social Learning," E. learning Age (October 2007) |
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| No: "Yearning for E-Learning? The Pros and Cons of the Virtual Classroom for Your Call Center," Customer Inter@ction Solutions (June 2008) |
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| Issue 12 Does Increased Dependence on Laptops, Cell Phones, and PDAs Hurt Employee Productivity? |
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| Yes: from "Death by Information Overload," Harvard Business Review (September 2009 |
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| No: from "Working Successfully in a Virtual World," Employment Relations Today (2007) |
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| Issue 13 Do Unions Help Organizational Productivity? |
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| Yes: from "Unions Are Good for Business, Productivity, and the Economy," (http://www.aflcio.org/joinaunion/why/uniondifference/uniondiff8.cfm) |
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| No: from "The Game---Dr. Z's Chrysler Predicament: Selling Unions on Sacrifice," Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition) (April 24, 2007) |
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| UNIT 5 COMPENSATION AND PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL |
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| Issue 14 Has Merit Pay Lost Its Meaning in the Workplace? |
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| Yes: from "Merit-Pay Payoff?" Workforce Management (November 2008) |
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| No: from "U.S. News: Obama Seeks to Expand Merit Pay for Teachers," Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition) (March 11, 2009) |
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| Issue 15 Do Intrinsic Rewards Provide for Better Employee Retention? |
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| Yes: from "Total Reward Is Helping to Define a New Era of Benefits" Employee Benefits (July 2007) |
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| No: from "Reasons to Go," Computerworld (June 2008) |
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| Issue 16 Is Forced Ranking an Effective Performance Management Approach? |
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| Yes: from "Cull or Cure?" Personnel Today (May 2007) |
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| No: from "Forced Ranking: The Good, The Bad, And The Alternative," Training (May 2004) |
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| Issue 17 Given the Current State of the National Economy, Is Executive Pay Unreasonable? |
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| Yes: from "Executive Excess 2007" at the Institute for Policy Studies. http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/#84 |
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| No: from "The Economic Argument for CEO Pay," Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition) (September 14, 2007) |
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| UNIT 6 THE EFFECT OF HRM PRACTICES |
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| Issue 18 Does Attracting, Developing, and Retaining the Millennial Generation Require Significant Changes to Current HRM Practices? |
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| Yes: from "Generation Y," Training Journal (July 2009) |
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| No: from "Managing Your Multigenerational Workforce," Strategic Finance (2005) |
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| Issue 19 Do Human Resource Management Practices Contribute to Increased Firm Performance? |
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| Yes: "Google's Lessons for Employers: Put Your Employees First," HR Focus (September 2008) |
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| No: from "OOMPH! Heroes or Zeroes?" Personnel Today (September 2007) |
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| Issue 20 Is Outsourcing a Good U.S. Business Strategy? |
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| Yes: from "Outsourcing Production and Jobs: Costs and Benefits," Business Perspectives (Spring 2004) |
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| No: from "Outsourcing: Pros and Cons," Executive Speeches (August 2004) |
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