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| Preface | |
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| Correlation Guide | |
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| Topic 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: David L. Chappell, from "If Affirmative Action Fails… What Then?" New York Times (May 8, 2004) | |
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| NO: Jonathan Kaufman, from "Fair Enough? Barack Obama's Rise Has Americans Debating Whether Affirmative Action Has Run Its Course," Wall Street Journal (June 14, 2008) | |
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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: Dina Berta, from "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: Victoria Zellers, from "Make a Resolution: ADA Training," HR Magazine (January 2009) | |
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| Has the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Helped U.S. Corporations? | |
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| YES: Edward Cone, from "Learning to Live with SOX," CIO Insight, 2(69), (2006) | |
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| NO: C.J. Prince, from "Unintended Consequences," Chief Executive, vol. 205, (2005) | |
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| Should Employees Be Allowed to Wear Symbols of Faith in the Workplace? | |
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| YES: Robert J. Grossman, from "Religion at Work," HR Magazine (December 2008) | |
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| NO: Robert D. Ramsey, from "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: Jamie Vicknair, Dalia Elkersh, Katie Yancey, and Michael C. Budden, from "The Use of Social Networking Websites as a Recruiting Tool for Employers," American Journal of Business Education, vol. 3, no. 11, 7-12 (2010) | |
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| NO: Daniel J. Solove, from "The End of Privacy?" Scientific American, vol. 299, no. 3 (September, 2008) | |
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| Are Personality Tests Good Predictors of Employee Performance? | |
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| YES: Ira Blank, from "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: Erin White, from "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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| Is Cognitive Ability Testing a Good Predictor of Work Performance? | |
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| YES: Martha J. Frase, from "Smart Selections," HR Magazine (December 2007) | |
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| NO: Rangarajan (Raj) Parthasarathy, from "Emotional Intelligence and the Quality Manager: Beauty and the Beast?" The Journal for Quality and Participation 0anuary 2009) | |
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| Would Mandatory Background Checks for All Employees Reduce Negligent Hiring Lawsuits? | |
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| YES: Lessing E. Gold, from "Security and the Law: Get a Background Check," SDM Magazine (October 2007) | |
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| NO: Chad Terhune, from "The Trouble with Background Checks: Employee Screening Has Become a Big Business, but Not Always an Accurate One," Business Week (June 2008) | |
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| Women in Corporate Levels | |
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| Do Women Make Better Business Leaders? | |
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| YES: Ann Pomeroy, from "Cultivating Female Leaders," HR Magazine (February 2007) | |
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| NO: Herminia Ibarra and Otilia Obodaru, from "Women and the Vision Thing," Harvard Business Review (January 2009) | |
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| Does the Glass Ceiling Still Exist in U.S. Organizations? | |
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| YES: Jessica Marquez, from "Gender Bias Found to Start Early in Career," Workforce Management (June 2009) | |
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| NO: Anonymous, from "Women in the Economy (A Special Report)-Tales from the Front Lines: On How They Did What They Did," Wall Street Journal (p. R.6, 2011) | |
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| Employee Performance and Organizational Productivity | |
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| Does Increased Dependence on Laptops, Cell Phones, and PDAs Hurt Employee Productivity? | |
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| YES: Paul Hemp, from "Death by Information Overload," Harvard Business Review (September 2009) | |
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| NO: Michelle LaBrosse, from "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 (2009) | |
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| NO: Dennis K. Berman, from "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: Fay Hansen, from "Merit-Pay Payoff?" Workforce Management (November 2008) | |
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| NO: Susan J. Wells, from "No Results, No Raise." HR Magazine (vol. 50, no. 5, pp. 76-80, 2005) | |
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| Is Forced Ranking an Effective Performance Management Approach? | |
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| YES: Alex Blyth, from "Cull or Cure?" Personnel Today (May 2007) | |
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| NO: Gail Johnson, from "Forced Ranking: The Good, the Bad, and the Alternative," Training (May 2004) | |
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| Is the U.S. Executive Pay Model Flawed? | |
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| YES: Sarah Anderson, John Cavanagh, Chuck Collins, Mike Lapham, Sam Pizzigati, from "Executive Excess 2007," at the Institute for Policy Studies, http://www.ips-dc.Org/reports/#84 (2007) | |
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| NO: Robert B. Reich, from "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: Charles Woodruffe, from "Generation Y," Training Journal (July 2009) | |
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| NO: Dana Kyles, from "Managing Your Multigenerational Workforce," Strategic Finance (2005) | |
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| Do Human Resource Management (HRM) Practices (Such as Selection, Training, Performance Management, and Compensation) Contribute to Increased Firm Performance? | |
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| YES: Anonymous, from "Google's Lessons for Employers: Put Your Employees First," HR Focus (vol. 85, no. 9, pp. 8-9, September 2008) | |
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| NO: Keith H. Hammonds, from "Why We Hate HR," Fast Company (vol. 97, pp. 40-47, 2005) | |
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| Global Hrm | |
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| Is Overseas Outsourcing a Good U.S. Business Strategy? | |
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| YES: John E. Gnuschke, Jeff Wallace, Dennis R. Wilson, and Stephen C. Smith, from "Outsourcing Production and Jobs: Costs and Benefits," Business Perspectives (Spring 2004) | |
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| NO: Murray Weidenbaum, from "Outsourcing: Pros and Cons," Executive Speeches (August/September 2004) | |
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| Is the Sweatshop Concept Adopted by the U.S. Manufacturers Overseas Ethical? | |
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| YES: Tara J. Radin and Martin Calkins, from "The Struggle Against Sweatshops: Moving Toward Responsible Global Business," Journal of Business Ethics (vol. 66, nos. 2-3, pp. 261-272, 2006) | |
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| NO: Dennis G. Arnold and Laura P. Hartman, from "Beyond Sweatshops: Positive Deviancy and Global Labor Practices," Business Ethics: A European Review (vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 206-210, July 2005) | |
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| Are U.S. Companies Adaptive to Local Practices Overseas? | |
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| YES: Mike Hughlett, from Strong Amid Slowdown Worries Sitting Pretty: McDonald's Overseas Sales Are Surging as It Adapts Successful U.S. Operations to Local Tastes, Styles of Its International Restaurants (McClatchy-Tribune Information Services, 2008) | |
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| NO: Jaya Halepete, K. V. Seshadri Iyer, and Soo Chul Park, from "Wal-Mart in India: A Success or Failure?" International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management (vol. 36, no. 9, pp. 701-713, 2008) | |
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| Contributors | |