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Is team work commonsense? A new book called Collaborative Intelligence: Using Teams to Solve Hard Problems by Harvard psychology professor, J. Richard Hackman says our understanding of how to work together might be wrong.
Archives: Race / National Origin Discrimination
Pepsi settles race discrimination lawsuit involving criminal background checks.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced that Pepsi Beverages Co. will pay $3.13M to settle a race discrimination lawsuit involving criminal background checks. Pepsi’s former policy of not hiring workers with arrest records, even if they had never been convicted … Continue reading
Decision Making using Personality Tests: Implications for Adverse Impact and Differential Hiring rates
A new study in the International Journal of Selection and Assessment investigates selection decision methods and their influence on issues such as adverse impact and differential hiring rates. The results of the study of 398 bus operator candidates who each … Continue reading
Employment Status as Useful Screening Tool? Unlikely
If you follow employment news online and in print media, you may have noticed new allegations arising that some employers are discriminating against job applicants based on their current employment status. Employment status is another facially neutral screening criteria, much … Continue reading
Going With Your Gut vs. Going With the Data – Credit History and Criminal Background Checks as Screening Tools
EEOC has recently intensified its scrutiny of seemingly neutral employment criteria, such as policies that exclude those with bad credit or criminal convictions, which often have a disparate impact on protected groups. EEOC policy states that a blanket exclusion of … Continue reading