You are an HR professional in an organization with 1,200 employee and seven sites. The company you work for is involved in engineering. It performs construction design and also engages in research and development of engineering and construction materials. As the HR director, you report directly to the company’s CEO. The company’s founder is a scientist and though present at one of the sites, he is no longer involved in the running of the organization. There is a six-member board of directors.
The CEO is very open and outgoing and he is liked and respected by almost everyone in the company and his community. Recently, a technical position came open. The job announcement was only made internally, which is an option based on the approved and recently revised employee manual you completed and presented to the CEO and all senior staff. Note: The employee manual does NOT require management to hire the best qualified applicant. Currently, the company has an equal number of men and women, so filling this position with one gender or the other is not a consideration for maintaining an employment balance.
Technical position information: A fully qualified candidate is considered capable of performing the work with some period of transition, estimated to be around one year, and a best qualified candidate is considered someone able to hit the ground running in the new position.
Candidate information: Two internal employees have applied but they are not equally qualified.
The announcement of a hiring selection has not been made, but company gossip has already started, reflecting upon the likelihood that the young woman will be chosen because the CEO has an innocent crush. While no allegations of impropriety of any type have been made, the perception of a form of favoritism is present.
The SHRM Code of Ethics advises HR professionals to, “Advocate for the appropriate use and appreciation of human beings as employees.” Using this and other ethical guidelines, should you try to influence the CEO’s selection and recommend that the young man be hired over the young woman? Or should you remain silent? What, if anything, is the CEO doing incorrectly or substantively wrong in this hiring scenario if he selects the woman?
Prepare a 3–4-page plan that states your recommended course of action. Along with your recommendation, include the following:
Review the HR Challenge: A Question of Ethics Scoring Guide to see the criteria by which your assignment will be evaluated. Before submitting your assignment for evaluation, review your draft in SafeAssign to check your use of source material.
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