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Hopwood Manufacturing: Seeking to Hire the Best and the Brightest, or Not (B)

Leadership and People Management, Strategy

Reference: IVEY-9B11C047-E
Year: 2006
Number of pages: 1
Geographic Setting: Iowa, United States
Publication Date: Dec 15, 2011
Source: Ivey Business School (Canada)
Type of Document: Case

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Description

This is a supplement to Hopwood Manufacturing: Seeking to Hire the Best and the Brightest, or Not (A).

Learning Objective

This case may be used in organizational behaviour, human resource management, and general management courses as well as other courses addressing employment decisions, workplace diversity, and ethical issues. The following are the primary teaching objectives: ·To examine the complexity of the hiring process. ·To illustrate the challenges associated with enforcing organizational policies with respect to third parties. ·To explore the role of a mid-level employee facing obligations to multiple stakeholders with different interests at stake. In this case, these stakeholders are students, recruiters, supervisors, and other mid-level employees such as those in human resources and career services.

Keywords

Discrimination ethics Hiring Iowa United States workplace diversity