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| Preface | |
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| Correlation Guide | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Legal Environment | |
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| Is Affirmative Action Still Necessary? | |
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| Yes: "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: "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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| Will the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA) Be Abused in the U.S. Workplace? | |
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| Yes: "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: "Make a Resolution: ADA Training," HR Magazine (January 2009) | |
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| Is the "Living Wages" Concept the Best Answer for High Employee Turnover among Lower-Skilled Employees? | |
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| Yes: "Wage Laws See Varied Results over 14 Years," The American City & County (October 2008) | |
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| No: "States and Cities Square Off over Living Wage Laws," HR Magazine (March 2004) | |
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| Should Employees Be Allowed to Wear Symbols of Faith to the Workplace? | |
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| Yes: "Religion at Work," HR Magazine (December 2008) | |
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| No: "When Religion and Work Clash," Supervision (September 2007) | |
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| Talent Acquisition | |
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| Are Social Networking Sites Good Recruitment Sources? | |
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| Yes: "Get Social, Get a Job," ComputerWorld (August 2009) | |
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| No: "The End of Privacy?" Scientific American (September 2008) | |
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| Are Personality Tests Good Predictors of Employee Performance? | |
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| Yes: "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: "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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| Would Mandatory Background Checks for All Employees Reduce Negligent Hiring Lawsuits? | |
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| Yes: "Get a Background Check," SDM (October 2007) | |
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| No: "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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| Is Cognitive Ability Testing a Good Predictor of Work Performance? | |
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| Yes: "Smart Selections," HR Magazine (December 2007) | |
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| No: "Emotional Intelligence and the Quality Manager: Beauty and the Beast?" The Journal for Quality and Participation (January 2009) | |
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| Women In Corporate Levels | |
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| Does the Glass Ceiling Still Exist in U.S. Organizations? | |
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| Yes: "Gender Bias Found to Start Early in Career," Workforce Management (June 2009) | |
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| No: Anonymous, "Breaking the Glass Ceiling," Black Enterprise (February 2009) | |
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| Do Women Make Better Business Leaders? | |
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| Yes: "Cultivating Female Leaders," HR Magazine (February 2007) | |
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| No: "Women and the Vision Thing," Harvard Business Review (January 2009) | |
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| Employee Performance And Organizational Productivity | |
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| Does E-Learning Actually Promote Employee Learning and Development? | |
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| Yes: "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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| Does Increased Dependence on Laptops, Cell Phones, and PDAs Hurt Employee Productivity? | |
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| Yes: "Death by Information Overload," Harvard Business Review (September 2009) | |
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| No: "Working Successfully in a Virtual World," Employment Relations Today (2007) | |
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| Do Unions Help Organizational Productivity? | |
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| Yes: AFL-CIO, from "Unions Are Good for Business, Productivity, and the Economy," (http://www.aflcio.org/joinaunion/why/ uniondifference/uniondiff8.cfm) | |
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| No: "The Game-Dr. Z's Chrysler Predicament: Selling Unions on Sacrifice," Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition) (April 24, 2007) | |
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| Compensation And Performance Appraisal | |
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| Has Merit Pay Lost Its Meaning in the Workplace? | |
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| Yes: "Merit-Pay Payoff?" Workforce Management (November 2008) | |
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| No: "U.S. News: Obama Seeks to Expand Merit Pay for Teachers," Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition) (March 11, 2009) | |
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| Do Intrinsic Rewards Provide for Better Employee Retention? | |
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| Yes: "Total Reward Is Helping to Define a New Era of Benefits" Employee Benefits (July 2007) | |
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| No: "Reasons to Go," Computerworld (June 2008) | |
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| Is Forced Ranking an Effective Performance Management Approach? | |
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| Yes: "Cull or Cure?" Personnel Today (May 2007) | |
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| No: "Forced Ranking: The Good, The Bad, And The ALTERNATIVE," Training (May 2004) | |
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| Given the Current State of the National Economy, Is Executive Pay Unreasonable | |
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| Yes: "Executive Excess 2007" at the Institute for Policy Studies. http://www.ips-dc.Org/reports/#84 | |
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| No: "The Economic Argument for CEO Pay," Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition) (September 14, 2007) | |
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| The Effect of HRM Practices | |
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| Does Attracting, Developing, and Retaining the Millennial Generation Require Significant Changes to Current HRM Practices? | |
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| Yes: "Generation Y," Training Journal (July 2009) | |
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| No: "Managing Your Multigenerational Workforce," Strategic Finance (2005) | |
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| 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: "OOMPH! Heroes or Zeroes?" Personnel Today (September 2007) | |
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| Is Outsourcing a Good U.S. Business Strategy? | |
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| Yes: "Outsourcing Production and Jobs: Costs and Benefits," Business Perspectives (Spring 2004) | |
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| No: "Outsourcing: Pros and Cons," Executive Speeches (August 2004) | |
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| Contributors | |