You are a human resource manager for Wydget corporation, a small manufacturing company. Wydget's assembly plant is located in an inner-city neighborhood, and most of its production employees are African Americans and Hispanics, as well as some Vietnamese and Loatians who live nearby. Wydget's managers are white males who sometimes have difficulty relating to the production workers. The board of directors is considering whether to establish a training program to groom production workers for Management positions, targeting women and minorities in particular.

1. Recommended a training program and state the reason why you would use this training program.

2. Discuss the downside of setting up such a trading program and how to legally protect yourself from claims of disparate impact and/or disparate treatment discrimination. In your answer you must make legal arguments sitting a case and a statute.