1. In past meetings with your management colleagues, you notice more energy from them when discussing financial, operational, marketing, and other business issues and lack of enthusiasm regarding important HR issues. In this meeting you will be discussing Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures. How will you make this HR topic a business-related issue? 2. The Marketing Manager recently turned down Nancy Conrad for a positionas Sales Supervisor. Nancy believes the denial was due to her gender, and she has filed a sex discrimination charge with the EEOC. The Marketing Manager has asked you what procedural steps will the EEOC will take in response to these charges? 3. You are recently hired as HR Manager by a small, family-owned company with $14M in revenues 65 employees. You discover there are no written job descriptions, and when hen approach the CEO, he says they are a small firm, and that "stuff" is a waste of time. How will you explain how formally written job descriptions will help manage the company? 4. The company for whom you are an HR manager uses teams extensively, but the CEO feels they are not as effective as they could be. You are given the assignment to deliver team training and ask for what type of teams the training will be for. The CEO looks puzzled. How will you explain your question? 5. The CEO of your company is concerned that low employee productivity, apathy, turnover and absenteeism has become chronic. The CEO thinks monetary incentives or discipline is the appropriate response. Do you agree? Why or why not? What is your recommendation?