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The answers to each Case Study must be 3 – 5 pages in length and completed in current APA formatting. The statements in each Case Study must be supported by at least 1 scholarly source, with an APA-formatted references list and in-text citations. Each Case Study must be submitted through the provided SafeAssign link. Each Case Study is due by 10:59 p.m. (CST) on Sunday of the module/week in which it is assigned.
n Chapter 2, “Applications: Age Discrimination in a Promotion?”: answer questions 1 and 2. (title page, at least three full and complete pages of original discussion and analysis [not counting quotations, extra white space, or wide margins], and reference page).
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APPLICATIONS
Age Discrimination in a Promotion?
Best Protection Insurance Company
(BPIC) handles
a massive volume of claims
each year in the corporate claims function, as well as in its four regional claims
centers. The corporate claims function is headed by the senior
vice president of
corporate claims (SVPCC); reporting to the SVPCC are two managers
of corporate
claims (MCC-Life
and MCC-Residential)
and a highly skilled corporate
claims specialist (CCS). Each regional office is headed by a regional center manager
(RCM); the RCM is responsible for both supervisors and claims specialists
within the regional office. The RCMs report to the vice president of regional claims
(VPRC). The organization
is structured as follows:
SVPCC
VPRC
MCC-L MCC-R CCS
RCM RCM RCM RCM
BPIC decided
to reorganize
its claims function by eliminating the four regional
offices (and the RCM position) and establishing numerous small field offices
throughout the country. The other part of the reorganization
involved creating five
new CCS positions. The CCS job itself was to be redesigned and upgraded in terms
of knowledge and skill requirements. These
new CCS positions would be staffed
through internal promotions from within the claims function.
The SVPCC asked Gus Tavus, a 52-year-
old
RCM, to apply for one of the new
CCS positions since his job was being eliminated. The other RCMs, all of whom
were
over 40 years of age, were
also asked to apply. Neither Gus nor the other
RCMs were
promoted to the CCS positions. Other candidates, some of whom
were
also over age 40, were
also bypassed. The promotions went to five claims
specialists and supervisors from within the former regional offices, all of whom
were
under
age 40. Two of these
newly promoted employees had worked for, and
reported to, Gus as RCM.
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Upon learning of his failure to be promoted, Gus sought to find out why. What
he learned led him to believe that he had been discriminated against because
of his
age. He then retained legal
counsel, attorney Bruce Davis. Bruce met informally
with the SVPCC to try to determine what had happened in the promotion process
and why his client had not been promoted. He was told that there
were
numerous
candidates who were
better qualified than Gus and that Gus lacked adequate
technical and communication skills for the new job of CCS. The SVPCC refused
to reconsider Gus for the job and said that all decisions were
etched
in stone. Gus
and Bruce then filed suit in federal district court, claiming a violation of the Age
Discrimination in Employment Act. They also subpoenaed numerous BPIC documents,
including the personnel files of all applicants for the CCS positions.
After
reviewing the documents and discussing things
with Gus, Bruce learned
more about the promotion process
actually used by BPIC. The SVPCC and the
two MCCs conducted the entire process;
they received no input from the VPRC
or the HR department. There
was no formal, written job description for the new
CCS position, nor was there
a formal internal job posting as required by company
policy. The SVPCC and the MCCs developed a list of employees they thought
might be interested in the job, including Gus, and then met to consider the list of
candidates. At that meeting, the personnel files and previous performance
appraisals
of the candidates were
not consulted. After
deciding on the five candidates who
would be offered the promotion (all five accepted), the SVPCC and MCCs scanned
the personnel files and appraisals of these
five (only) to check for any disconfirming
information. None was found. Bruce’s inspection of the files revealed no written
comments suggesting age bias in past performance
appraisals for any of the
candidates, including Gus. Also, there
was no indication that Gus lacked technical
and communication skills. All of Gus’s previous appraisal ratings were
above average,
and there
was no evidence of decline in the favorability of the ratings. Finally,
an interview with the VPRC (Gus’s boss) revealed that he had not been consulted
at all during the promotion process,
that he was “shocked beyond belief” that Gus
had not been promoted, and that there
was “no question” but that Gus was qualified
in all respects
for the CCS job.
1. Prepare a written report that presents
a convincing disparate treatment claim
that Gus had been intentionally discriminated against on the basis of his age.
Do not address the claim as one of disparate impact.
2. Present
a convincing rebuttal, from the viewpoint of BPIC, to this disparate
treatment claim.
