Purchase Solution

Disparate Impact and Disparate Treatment

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

Help discuss the importance of the legal context of talent management.

Bases for Employment Lawsuits
a - What is the difference between disparate treatment and adverse impact?
b - Strategic Exercise. Using each of the three statistical examples (stock, flow, and concentration), discuss whether or not there is evidence of adverse impact.
(see attached file for data).
c - Try to identify what might be happening.

Attachments
Purchase this Solution

Solution Summary

This solution discusses disparate treatment and disparate impact.

Disparate Treatment - This form of discrimination is defined by the US Supreme Court as treating an applicant or employee less favorably than others because of race, color, national origin, gender and sexual orientation (in California).

Disparate Impact - The main focus in disparate impact is not the motivation of discrimination, but rather the discriminatory consequences. Disparate impact can be defined as the employment practices that negatively impact (either intentionally or not) a group of protected individuals. For example, when an organizations creates a math exam as part of a recruitment process which is typically aced only by Asian ethic groups.

Purchase this Solution


Free BrainMass Quizzes
Organizational Behavior (OB)

The organizational behavior (OB) quiz will help you better understand organizational behavior through the lens of managers including workforce diversity.

Writing Business Plans

This quiz will test your understanding of how to write good business plans, the usual components of a good plan, purposes, terms, and writing style tips.

Cost Concepts: Analyzing Costs in Managerial Accounting

This quiz gives students the opportunity to assess their knowledge of cost concepts used in managerial accounting such as opportunity costs, marginal costs, relevant costs and the benefits and relationships that derive from them.

Understanding the Accounting Equation

These 10 questions help a new student of accounting to understand the basic premise of accounting and how it is applied to the business world.

Managing the Older Worker

This quiz will let you know some of the basics of dealing with older workers. This is increasingly important for managers and human resource workers as many countries are facing an increase in older people in the workforce