Equal Employment

Objective: Identify HR laws and demonstrate application

After reading the Postal (2009) and Leonard (2008) articles address the following questions:

1. How have political, economic, legal, ethical, social, or technological/scientific (pick one) advances in the past decade impacted the hiring, promotion, or firing (pick one) practices in organizations? In addition to referring to the readings, please be sure to incorporate your personal professional experiences if you can.

Just a thought to get you started: Several years ago, former President Obama is proposed a Jobs Act that can be analyzed from multiple aspects (e.g. Economic, Political, Social) for this question. A link to the act is as follows:http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/09/09/american-jobs-act-read-all-details(Links to an external site.)

2. Imagine you were the director of human resources 10 years from now; speculate how might these practices (hiring, promotion, or firing) be impacted then? Is best to identify any current trends or sources to substantiate your speculation.