Chapter 3: SUPPLEMENTAL CASES
Questions
1. If you were an EEO investigator, how would you evaluate this selection
procedure?
2. Which requirements might be viewed as job-related?
Comments:
Tim Rowe is on shaky ground with his selection procedure. He will be hard pressed to
demonstrate that his selection instrument (pencil-and-paper test) is job-related. Also,
in light of a 1971 case, unless a high school diploma can be shown to be related to the
job performance of a truck driver, it is not a legal criterion for selection. Tim might be
better off to try to settle these complaints than to fight them through the courts. Of
the three requirements, only the driver’s license “test” appears to be job-related.
1. Discuss why making changes such as Mitsubishi did is important both legally and
for improving HR management with the employees and managers.
Making changes such as setting up a department to investigate all employee complaints,
training employees in avoiding illegal discrimination issues, and enforcing a zero-tolerance
2. Discuss how disparate treatment and disparate impact were factors affecting this
case.
Disparate treatment refers to treating a protected class differently from others. The
