CASE ANALYSIS & Powerpoint DUE OCT 15

The company I chose is the NFL and their issue implementing the Rooney Rule. The National Football League is a major U.S. professional football organization, founded in 1920 in Canton, Ohio as the American Professional Football Association. The Rooney Rule, adopted in 2003 for head coaches and expanded in 2009 to include general manager jobs and equivalent front-office positions, the rule — named after Dan Rooney, Pittsburgh Steelers chairman and onetime head of the league’s diversity committee — mandates that an NFL team must interview at least one minority candidate for open jobs. The rule, however, has two flaws: the temptation to substitute bogus interviews in place of a search for real diversity, and assistant coaching positions, a crucial step to head-coaching jobs, are not under the umbrella, just recently women have been added under the rule.

 

The NFL can’t mandate hires but they can utilize the Rooney Rule for equity, which affords the league fairness but also fosters new ideas that lead to better football. The Rooney Rule looks like it is being utilized to just check a box for diversity’s sake, leading to the same number of minority coaches today as when the rule was implemented in 2003, only three.