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You are a division manager at Austen Pharmaceuticals. You directly supervise 50 employees, all of whom are average or above average employees. Many individuals on your team have been with the company for several years. Several recent hires, mostly women and minority employees, were hired to remedy the lack of diversity in the workplace. Due to financial difficulties within the company, each division manager has received instructions to decrease their employee count by 15 %. Explain the process you would use to make this decision. How will you morally justify your decision?

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The solution gives a suggestion of a process and moral justification of reducing your employee count by 15%. 165 words.

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Since there is a mix of average and above average employees at Austen Pharmaceuticals, the best strategy to decrease the employee count would be to weed out the average employees. If they are labeled as an average employee, it indicates that the ...

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