Week 1 Discussion 2 EEOC Violations

Read "Case Studies of Age Discrimination in Job Ads (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.". Select two out of the five case studies and present your defense strategy as if you were the HR representative for the company that potentially violated EEOC guidelines. Try to explain why you may be in compliance, or simply defend your company in lieu of a potential lawsuit. In order to provide a thorough analysis, please use at least two other sources in addition to the official EEOC (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. website. 

TEXT

Youssef-Morgan, C. M., & Stark. E. (2014). Strategic human resource management: Concepts, controversies, and evidence-based applications [Electronic version].

Websites

Case studies of age discrimination in job ads (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. (2012, May 24). Retrieved from http://www.bizfilings.com/toolkit/sbg/office-hr/hiring-workers/age-discrimination-in-job-ads-case-studies.aspx

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (www.eeoc.gov)

Articles

Hammonds, K. H. (2005, August). Why we hate HR (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Fast Company. Retrieved from http://www.fastcompany.com/53319/why-we-hate-hr

Chhanwal, Sunil. (2015, August 9). Putting the 'person' in personnel (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Retrieved from https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/putting-person-personnel-sunil-chhanwal

Connors, G. (2013, February). Employers: Your HR managers should be ‘expert’ at being a fact witness (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Forbes. Retrieved from http://www.forbes.com/sites/theemploymentbeat/2013/02/27/employers-your-hr-manager-should-be-expert-at-being-a-fact-witness/

Dorfman, P. W., Cobb, A. T., & Cox, R. (2000). Investigations of sexual harassment allegations: Legal means fair - or does it? Human Resource Management, 39(1), 33. Retrieved from the ProQuest database.

Meister, J. (2013, July). Lessons for human resource departments, from the Huffington Post (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Forbes. Retrieved from http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeannemeister/2013/07/10/lessons-for-human-resource-departments-from-huffington-post/