Human resources managment legal ethical. deliverable 03

Competency

Design reasonable accommodations to meet the needs of employees and the organization.

Scenario

You are the HR Director of a regional, non-franchised chain of restaurants. In a strategic meeting last month, you presented to the CEO that the diversity of the chain’s workforce is not up to standards. The CEO wants to increase the diversity of the staff and has asked you for recommendations. As you review the employee data for your firm, you realize that people with disabilities are not represented well in the organization and advise the CEO that an authentic effort should be made to increase hiring from this category of employees. She agrees but cautions that there will likely be pushback from the line managers about doing so. The CEO instructs you to gain support and buy-in from the line managers for hiring people qualified individuals with disabilities. You decide to do this by hosting a mandatory workshop designed to educate line managers on ADA and hiring people with disabilities.

Instructions

Prepare an outline for the workshop. Content should be listed in bulleted form. Include the time needed to cover each topic and provide an agenda for the workshop. The content should cover the following points:

• Demonstrates a business case for hiring people with disabilities, to include information stated in the ADA ACT.


• Discriminates between facts and common misconceptions regarding ADA, to include the legal definitions of impairment, and which disabilities are protected by the ADA.


• Provides examples of reasonable accommodations and actual costs of the same.


• Explains what constitutes a qualified individual according to ADA and how qualified individuals with disabilities can benefit the organization in the same way as those without disabilities.


• Provides attribution for credible sources used in your outline.

Resources

Article Databases:

• Business Source Complete via EBSCO


• Business via ProQuest


• ASP: Human Resource Management Online

Guides & FAQs:

• APA Guide


• Rasmussen’s Answers/FAQs

Grading Rubric

F

F

C

B

A

0

1

2

3

4

Did not Submit

No Pass

Competence

Proficiency

Mastery

Not Submitted

Used unclear verbiage for a business case for hiring people with disabilities, to include information stated in the ADA ACT.

Demonstrated a business case for hiring people with disabilities, to include information stated in the ADA ACT., no examples provided.

Demonstrated a business case for hiring people with disabilities, to include information stated in the ADA ACT., using some clear examples.

Clearly and strongly demonstrated a business case for hiring people with disabilities, to include information stated in the ADA ACT., using clear examples in a well-defined workshop outline.

Not Submitted

Used unclear verbiage for discriminating between facts and common misconceptions regarding ADA, to include the legal definitions of impairment, and which disabilities are protected by the ADA.

Discriminated between facts and common misconceptions regarding ADA, to include the legal definitions of impairment, and which disabilities are protected by the ADA, no examples provided.

Discriminated between facts and common misconceptions regarding ADA, to include the legal definitions of impairment, and which disabilities are protected by the ADA using some clear examples.

Clearly and strongly discriminated between facts and common misconceptions regarding ADA, to include the legal definitions of impairment, and which disabilities are protected by the ADA using clear examples in a well-defined workshop outline.

Not Submitted

Used unclear example(s) of reasonable accommodations and actual costs of the same.

Provided example(s) of reasonable accommodations and actual costs of the same with some inaccuracies.

Provided examples of reasonable accommodations and actual costs of the same with minimal inaccuracies.

Clearly and strongly provided examples of reasonable accommodations and actual costs of the same in a well-defined workshop outline.

Not Submitted

Used unclear verbiage for explaining what constitutes a qualified individual according to ADA and how qualified individuals with disabilities can benefit the organization in the same way as those without disabilities.

Explained what constitutes a qualified individual according to ADA and how qualified individuals with disabilities can benefit the organization in the same way as those without disabilities, no examples provided.

Explained what constitutes a qualified individual according to ADA and how qualified individuals with disabilities can benefit the organization in the same way as those without disabilities, using some clear examples.

Clearly and strongly explained what constitutes a qualified individual according to ADA and how qualified individuals with disabilities can benefit the organization in the same way as those without disabilities, using clear examples in a well-defined workshop outline.

Not Submitted

Failed to use or identify credible sources in the workshop outline.

Used and identified some credible sources in the workshop outline.

Used and relied on mostly credible sources in the workshop outline.

Used and relied on all credible sources in a well-defined workshop outline.