Assignment Ferris Valley Food Company:

Context: Ferris Valley Food Company$$s Selection Committee is debating whether or not to hire Lori Mitten.

You are Ned Larsen, CEO, and member of the Committee. You$$re aware that Mitten has served the required jail time for her sentence. You$$re also aware of the context that led to her arrest.

Assume a post$-$date update: Ferris Valley Food Company has become a $$second chance employer,$$ meaning it supports hiring individuals with prior felony convictions. You support hiring Mitten for a management position.

A member of the Selection Committee doesn$$t agree with the company$$s policy, and opposes hiring Mitten due to her record.

Your assignment is to try to convince your colleague why the company$$s position is correct, and why the company should hire Mitten for a management role.

Assignment:

$$ Partners are shown below

$$ Please coordinate with your partner for this exercise.

You will video record a conversation with your partner and post it on Peer Exchange as your Submission.

$$ For the Video that you post, you will take the role of Ned Larsen; your partner will be the member of the Selection Committee.

$$ For the video that your partner posts, they will be Larsen, and you will be the member of the selection committee.

$$ Your challenge: What will you say to convince the hiring manager to hire Lori Mitten?

$$ Partners:

$1.$ Marcellus Ajiboye & Michelle Bibiano

$2.$ Cedric Bullock & Dorian Carson

$3.$ Sylvia Choi & Alex Collier

$4.$ Page Crane & Leanne Donnelly

$5.$ Nazeh Elmahdawi & Andrew Freeman

$6.$ Amanda Giffi & Emily Heerdt

$7.$ Andrew Jackson & Monet Latham

$8.$ Francheska Machado & Erika Moscoso

$9.$ Marqus Nixon & Nicholas Oggero

$10.$ Anthony Oh & William Paterson

$11.$ Skyler Prue & Daniel Risen

$12.$ Henrik Ruparelia & Brian Sanders

$13.$ Sam Studer & Bomin Suh

$14.$ Jeffrey Vogel, Kirk Williams II$,$ & Danny Zhu

$15.$ Bria Flowers, Cesar Mejia, & Johnathan Remy

Logistics:

$$ You must use your Zoom room for this assignment.

$$ Each of you will host your own Zoom meeting$-$ please host the meeting in which you take the role of Larsen.

$$ Both you and your partner must be on camera $$ each of you speaking to the other via Zoom.

$$ Each video should be approximately two minutes.

$$ Be sure to choose the setting to allow an audio transcript.$*$

$$ Your partner will speak in their role, but make sure that you, when you$$re Larsen, speak the majority of the time. The same applies to when your partner is Larsen$-$ they should speak the majority of the time.

$$ At the end of the video, take the text of the audio transcript and post it in the Submission text box. This allows ChatGPT to analyze the conversation.

$*$Audio Transcript. Not all zoom rooms have this capability; please check to see if yours does. We want you to submit an audio transcript so that students can compare feedback from ChatGPT.

These are instructions from ChatGPT re: audio transcripts. We know that ChatGPT may be inaccurate, but hope that the following helps:

$1.$ Start a Zoom Meeting: As the host, start your Zoom meeting as usual.

$2.$ Record the Meeting:

$$ Click on the $$Record$$ button at the bottom of the Zoom window.

$$ Choose $$Record to the Cloud$$ to enable transcription. Note that local recordings don't support transcription.

$3.$ End and Save the Recording:

$$ When the meeting is over, stop the recording and end the meeting.

$$ Zoom will process the recording and the transcript.

$4.$ Accessing the Transcript:

$$ After the meeting, you will receive an email from Zoom when the cloud recording is ready.

$$ Log in to your Zoom account and navigate to the $$Recordings$$ section.

$$ Find your meeting and click on it to view the recording and transcript.

You will be evaluated by classmates on$.$

$$ Your choice of content to convince the member of the Selection Committee

$$ Your ability to incorporate facts from the case

$$ Your ability to incorporate HR recruitment and selection practices

$$ Your ability to incorporate HR recruitment and selection laws and regulations

$$ How well you responded to your partner$$s questions$/$concerns

FYI Only: Case Summary: Ned Larsen, the CEO of Ferris Valley Foods Company $($FVF$),$ located in western Michigan, was focusing on the issue of hiring ex$-$felons. He planned to ask his management team to consider if $($and how$)$ FVF could use information obtained from the Michigan Department of Corrections $($and the Michigan Prisoner Reentry Initiative$)$ and West Michigan Therapy, Inc. to benefit people like Lori Mitten, a middle$-$aged ex$-$offender who recently earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree and was seeking employment. In a deeper sense, Ferris Valley Foods Company also needed to consider the meaning of corporate social responsibility, with respect to the human, financial, and time$-$related resources that would be required in order to reach out to ex$-$offenders. One option might be to adopt a hands$-$off approach and either do nothing at all or simply make a financial donation to a non$-$profit organization that provides support for ex$-$offenders;