Week 8

Question 1

What is the purpose of having ‘anecdotal information’ during employee ranking and rating sessions?

Answer 1

exhibit concrete evidence of employee achievements and failures.

In performance appraisal,only those who have a good knowledge of what an employee is doing should be allowed to rate his or her performance. Supervisors need to bring adequate anecdotal information on a subordinate’s accomplishments and failures to ranking and rating sessions. Employers who fail to make a respectable case for subordinates by relying on half-remembered details from incidents occurring during the appraisal period may cause their employees to lose out in the competition for merit pay treatment with their co-workers whose employers can support-well on their performances.

Question 2

Which theory supports that affirmative action is a morally acceptable practice?

Answer 2

Distributive justice

Question 3

What employee wage principle justifies that a senior worker be paid higher than his junior colleagues if he is able to work more efficiently?

Answer 3

Equal pay for equal work

Equal pay for equal work states that people performing the same kind of work must be paid the same salaries as well.

Question 4

What is the moral significance of employment in a capitalistic economic system?

Answer 4

Employment provides citizens with a means to sustain their basic needs

Question 5

A poultry farm preferred to employ more men than women as general workers. The new management, however, recently began recruiting more women with the intention to provide a better gender balance in its workforce.

What recruitment approach did the new management adopt?

Answer 5

preferential treatment.

Preferential treatment is the practice of hiring or promoting members of minority groups in preference to those from non-minority groups.