This Competency Assessment assesses the following learning outcome:
HR400M2-2: Evaluate employment-related laws organizations must comply with when hiring.
The importance of complying with employment related laws becomes particularly evident when reviewing discrimination cases. For this Assessment, you will research a discrimination case and identify what occurred and what the organization could have done to prevent discrimination from occurring.
Assessment:
Before starting this Assessment, review the Checklist Rubric below.
Search for an article on a recent court case that involved discrimination (age, gender, disability, or national origin) in the hiring process. In a 3-page expository research paper address the following questions:
1. What was the type of discrimination that was the basis of the case? Provide a summary of what happened that led to the discrimination claim.
2. What was the law(s) that was involved? Provide a summary of the key elements of the law(s) that was involved.
3. What could the organization have done differently to prevent the case from occurring?
4. Describe specific steps an organization should take to prevent discrimination from occurring in the hiring process.
Minimum Submission Requirements
• Proper notification of any Resubmission, Repurposing, or Reworking of prior work per the Purdue Global Student Coursework Resubmission, Repurposing, and Reworking Policy Resource.
• This Assessment should be a Microsoft Word (minimum 3-4 page) document, in addition to the title and reference pages.
• Respond to the questions in a thorough manner, providing specific examples of concepts, topics, definitions, and other elements asked for in the questions. Your paper should be highly organized, logical, and focused.
• Your paper must be written in Standard English and demonstrate exceptional content, organization, style, and grammar and mechanics.
• Your paper should provide a clearly established and sustained viewpoint and purpose.
• Your writing should be well ordered, logical and unified, as well as original and insightful.
• A separate page at the end of your research paper should contain a list of references, in APA format. Use your textbook, the Library, and the Internet for research.
• Be sure to use in-text citations where appropriate and reference all sources. Your sources and content should follow proper APA citation style. For additional help with expository writing and APA formatting, please visit the Writing Center, accessed through the Academic Success Center within the Academic Tools area of the course.
(Your paper should include a title page, be double-spaced in Times New Roman 12-point font, include correct citations, use Standard English with no spelling or punctuation errors, and list correct references on the references page.)
If work submitted for this Competency Assessment does not meet the minimum submission requirements, it will be returned without being scored.
