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Imagine that you are the Vice President of Human Resources for Centurion Healthcare. While working one day, you receive a phone call from a department manager notifying you that one of her more tenured employees is alleging adverse impact due to the recent hiring of new, younger employees in her department. The incumbent employee is viewed as a seasoned individual contributor and role model who will be eligible to retire in the next 2 to 4 years. The new hire is a recent college graduate whose information technology skills are sorely needed at your organization.
You understand that the number of older workers in the workforce is increasing. People are remaining in the workforce longer and this means organizations must find new ways to support active and successful aging at work. On the other hand, new hires who have less work experience can also be the source of innovation and new ideas that can improve your organization. The lack of mandatory retirement age at Centurion Healthcare, combined with an increase in new hires has created the need to revisit human resource management practices in the areas of applicant attraction/reactions, job choice, recruitment, workplace diversity, and adverse impact due to potential age discrimination.
To understand Centurion’s current practices and recommend better solutions select two individuals (e.g., two friends or colleagues): one person, who recently started a new job, and a second individual, who has been in the workforce for many years and maybe closer to retirement. If two people are unavailable, use your own experiences as both new hire and an experienced employee. Interview each individual about their respective challenges in choosing an organization to join (as a new hire) for advancement opportunities and the challenges of staying and preparing to retire (as an experienced employee). Based on your weekly readings regarding applicant attraction/reactions, job choice and age bias (i.e., Perceptions of being too young and too old), and your interviews, describe each individual’s challenges and propose solutions that Centurion Healthcare can implement to retain the best new hires and their valued highly-experienced employees.
Incorporate information from your weekly readings, and other scholarly sources and create a proposal for Centurion executives using the section headings (see below). As part of the proposal, create an interview guide to better understand the goals, objectives, and key challenges of the newly hired and more experienced worker (add your interview guide as an appendix to your proposal). Use the following section headings to structure your interview guide:
• New Hire Challenges
o Applicant Attraction and Reactions to the Organization’s Selection Practices
o New Hire Expectations
o Questioning Restricted Advancement Opportunities (“Is It My Turn Yet?”)
• Experienced Worker Challenges
o Valuing Worker Experience
o Fairness in Hiring and Promotions
o Dealing with Perceptions of Age Bias (“Can I Still Compete?”)
• Age Bias and Discrimination (Too Young or Too Old?)
o What is age discrimination?
o What does adverse impact mean?
o What does disparate treatment mean?
• Recommendations
• Appendix: Interview Guide
• References
Length: 8 pages, not including title or reference pages.
References: Include a minimum of 7 scholarly resources.
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