An applicant has interviewed for the cancer registry position. He is in a wheelchair and has vision problems. He is a RHIT with cancer registry experience. You have several candidates with the same or fewer qualifications. No one has more qualifications than this applicant. How would you proceed? How would you determine who gets the position?

Question 2: No Departmental Orientation?

Assume you have just been hired from outside of the organization to serve as a first-line supervisor in one of the clinical support areas (laboratory, radiology, pharmacy, etc.). Staffing in the department has been lean, with some staff positions having been open for weeks, but as luck would have it, you were able to fill both open positions during your first 2 weeks on the job.

Being new to supervision and new to this organizational environment, the Friday before the two new employees were scheduled to start work, you asked a more experienced supervisor,

"Is there anything special I'm supposed to do with these new employees when human resources turns them over to me on Monday?" The response was simply, "Nothing other than your standard departmental orientation."

You asked each of your employees in turn about their departmental orientation. Their answers were consistent: There was no departmental orientation. They were simply shown their workstations and told where the cafeteria and restrooms were located.

Instructions:

Describe what you intend to do about:

(1) the two new employees who start work on Monday and (2) other new employees who join your department in the future.