Human Resource Management Study Set 10

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The case depicts the issue of hiring foreign and young employees by keeping aside the talented and experienced employees. This is an observation shown in the case without any documented evidence.
If a company hires young engineers or programmers, this is not necessarily age discrimination. Companies hire young graduates as technology changes rapidly, the young graduates are more prone to technology in comparison the senior ones. Their work proves more productive for the company and so companies hire them. Besides this, the young graduates get ready to work with much less compensation than the amount senior employees are liable to get. The companies actually save their cost by doing so.
It can't be said that it is unethical always. If a senior employee is working well then to replace him/her with a new and young graduate is definitely unethical. If most of the new employees are hired from younger age group without hampering the growth of other senior employees who are already working with the company then it is not unethical in any way. Similarly, there can be a situation in which senior people are fired because of the increased compensation he/she is liable to get. This decision is unethical. Basically, it differs from situation to situation whether the decision is ethical or unethical. It can't be necessarily said that hiring young people is always unethical.

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The best thing about questionnaire is it does not have right or wrong answers. Candidates are free to choose the alternatives they find suitable and sometimes a blank space is provided to them to answer the question as per their understanding.
When similar questionnaire is given to all the candidates who apply for the job in company A, there is no question of discrimination. It is quite possible that one candidate has earned the degree from a respectable university and another candidate has earned a degree from a local university; at this scenario normal recruitment process prefers to select the one with a degree from respectable university. This is an example of discrimination. Company G tries to remove all those barriers which can stand as examples of discrimination. It is providing each candidate equal opportunity to come and express their qualities in an indirect way.
Creativity and innovation are two things which should always be appreciated. Change is the law of nature. If some companies are trying to change the recruitment process, there will be specific reasons for that. In today's competitive world, overall performance counts more than only academics performance.

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In Criteria-related activity, there is a determination of the measurement of validity, on the basis of the correlation that is established substantially between the test scores of a candidate during a selection process with that of the job performance scores. In this regard, there are two types of research undertaken to determine the same: Predictive validation and Concurrent validation.
In Predictive validation, the test scores of all the candidates are utilized in order to foresee the possible relationship that could be established between scores of such candidates and their performances in future. After the administration of the tests, a researcher is supposed to wait for a while before measuring the candidates' performances once they are hired.
In Concurrent validation, there is administration of the candidates who are already holding the job in the current scenario and a comparison is made to the existing job performance measures to that of their test scores. The validity of test is determined when the candidates perform well in their job as the test scores depict, if they stand to score highest in such tests. Predictive validation is better because it motivates the job applicants themselves to perform better than the existing employees of an Organization. It further gives a scope for the job applicants to be offered a room of benefit as they are not in the position to learn as much as the current employees have access to the learning, on the job that they hold. Moreover, the job applicants may be heterogeneous in nature and do not end up behaving similar as in case of the current employees.
However, this type of validation is more difficult because Predictive validation consumes a significant amount of time and the level of complexity is also higher than the concurrent one.