Forest Park Corporation

Bob is the manager of the employment planning in the company. Old personnel director selected employees; according to their minority status also promotions were occurred regardless of seniority. Bob need to write a plan for management, it will be kind of emergency plan that have to be implemented. Report will imply how they go about selecting, developing, transferring, promoting people at all levels including professionals and managers. This report and further action is too important for company, because they are very big in textile industry and keep on investing for the industry, getting bigger and bigger. Normally they are busying with new entrants and hiring process for company, but because of this issue they need to major on this topic. Bob once recognized this kind of problem, when Pamela was working for the company. She reported it and mentioned that blacks and women were paid less and get lower performance rating from the company. Bob listed six main principles, and steps for implementation. He also recognized that the system that is maintained by him is also not working properly and also leads problem in hiring process. Candidate pool is not full of all applicants; only applicants with references can join the system. A1) It is mentioned above in details. A2) Bob has some good and some bad points, too. He made report properly, with adiaphorous attitude. He recognized the problem before, when he is working with Pamela, but he did not focus on the issue again. He just turns a blind eye to the situation. His card system is not working properly, hiring process has problems. A3) Public announcement is must. Then references can be collected. For new plant references should be collected from all regions. A4) Alternative A should be taken, because recent system is not working properly, they need to reform the system then they should hire people. A5) Alternative A seems costly but it should be taken in order to prevent future loses.

Week 11 Case 1