Discussion Question Chapter 5 1. If I was teaching this course I would use the 5 step training process and combine the advantages and disadvantages. 2. On the job training might take the form of the coaching/understudy method, job rotation, or special assignments and committees. 3. I think that the cultural insensitivity refers to the different type of cultures and races around the world and it might translate into loss of business because if there’s not a diversity then the employees will feel like they don’t belong in the work place and customers won’t go into the business because they feel that there’s a preference 4. I would go and talk to my professors boss because they should be noticing because I will probably be one of the many complaining
Discussion Question Chapter 6 1. Tools | Pros | Cons | Graphic Rating Scale | Simple to use; provide a quantitative rating for each employee | Standards may be unclear; halo effect, central tendency. | Bars | Provides behavioral “anchors.” BARS is very accurate. | Difficult to develop | Forced distribution method | Ends up with a predetermined number of people in each group. | Appraisal results depend on the adequacy of your original choice of cutoff points. | MBO | Tied to jointly agreed-upon performance objective | Time consuming |

2. I would use alternation ranking by judging my employees on performance but based on objective criteria. 3. (a) Halo Effect: It is the tendency of the raters to depend excessively on the rating of one trait or behavioral consideration in rating all others traits or behavioral considerations. One way of minimizing the halo effect is appraising all the employees by one trait before going to rate on the basis of another trait.

(b) The error of Central Tendency: Some raters follow play safe policy in rating by rating all the employees around the middle point of the rating scale and they avoid rating the people at both the extremes of the scale. They follow play safe policy because of answerability to management or lack of knowledge about the job and person he is rating or least interest in his job.

(c) The Leniency and Strictness: The leniency bias crops when some raters have a tendency to be liberal in their rating by assigning higher rates consistently. Such ratings do not serve any purpose. Equally damaging one is assigning consistently low rates. 4. Immediate Supervisor
Pros: The supervisor has easy access to the employee and knows the employee’s work.
Cons: Supervisors are prone to rater errors
Peers
Pros: effective in predicting future management success, high correlation between peer and supervisor ratings, more opportunity to observe rates, and to observe them at more revealing times than supervisors.
Cons: logrolling; all the peers simply get together to rate each other high.
Rating Committees
Pros: Using multiple raters can be advantageous. While there may be a discrepancy in the ratings made by individual supervisors, the composite ratings tend to be more reliable, fair, and valid. When there are variations in raters' ratings, they usually stem from the fact that raters often observe different facets of an employee's performance; the appraisal ought to reflect these differences.
Cons: This method is very time

Chapter 7 Discussion Questions 1- Nonexempt employees are covered by FLSA rules and regulations, and exempt employees are not. 2- Skills, Effort, Responsibility, and Working conditions 3- Merit pay is describing performance-related pay. I think is a good idea to award employees merit pay because it showing the employees that rewards come for doing a good job.
Chapter 8 Discussion Questions 1- Unethical but legal
- Manufacturing and selling cigarettes when you know they will make people ill
-Ignoring someone dying in the street
-SOX
Ethical but illegal
-It is illegal to run a traffic light or speed even though it is ethical if someone's life depended on it. Like if you had to rush them to the hospital.
-It is illegal to let someone else use your prescription asthma inhaler even though it might be the ethical thing to do if they are having an attack.
-The transformer gives us electricity. But the transformer emit a lot of heat that is why it may some time burn out causing real damage some times to the people. 2- l 3- To help ensure I ended up hiring someone ethical I need to make decisions involving morality, and normative judgement.