Using Chapter 6 of Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting & Orienting New Employees (5) by  Diane Arthur, create a 5 page report concerning CapraTeks hiring and promoting practices.  

Scenario

While planning for expansion, CapraTek is also concerned about its hiring and promotion practices at existing facilities. Management has asked for an analysis of the workforce in its flagship manufacturing facility. As a member of the human resources department, you know that CapraTek hires production workers at a semi-skilled level, and after one year in their position, workers are eligible to apply for a six-month training after which they can be promoted to the skilled production worker level. (This promotion comes with a 25 percent pay increase.) In addition, all line supervisors have been promoted from the ranks of the skilled production workers.

Requirements

Using what you know about CapraTek’s hiring and promotion practices, prepare a report for top management addressing the following: 

• Analyze the data for evidence of adverse impact using the 4/5ths rule. Consider the applicant flow.
• Analyze the data for evidence of adverse impact of employee utilization based on the relevant labor market for the state you chose in Assessment 1.
• Analyze the data for evidence of adverse impact on any protected class concentrated in lower-paying jobs.
• Assess CapraTek’s hiring and promotion practices to support its growth strategy.

• Write 4–5 typed, double-spaced pages (not including title page or references).
• Use Times New Roman font, 12 point.
• Include a title page and, if needed, a reference page.

Assignment 5: Capstone
Due Week 10 and worth 400 points

Select a publicly traded corporation for which you would like to work or are currently working.

Research the corporation on its own Website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University’s online databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.

Write an eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you:

1. Determine the impact of the company’s mission, vision, and primary stakeholders on its overall success.
2. Analyze the five (5) forces of competition to determine how they impact the company.
3. Create a SWOT analysis for the company to determine its major strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
4. Based on the SWOT analysis, outline a strategy for the company to capitalize on its strengths and opportunities, and minimize its weaknesses and threats.
5. Discuss the various levels and types of strategies the firm may use to maximize its competitiveness and profitability.
6. Outline a communications plan the company could use to make the strategies you recommend above known to all stakeholders.
7. Select two (2) corporate governance mechanisms used by this corporation and evaluate how effective they are at controlling managerial actions.
8. Evaluate the effectiveness of leadership within this corporation and make at least one (1) recommendation for improvement.
9. Assess efforts by this corporation to be a responsible (ethical) corporate citizen and determine the impact these efforts (or lack thereof) have on the company’s bottom line. Provide specific examples to support your response.
10. Use at least five (5) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Determine ways in which the vision, mission, and stakeholders of a firm impact that firm’s overall success.
• Identify how the six segments of the general environment affect an industry and its firms.
• Identify the five forces of competition.
• Analyze the external environment for opportunities and threats that impact the firm.
• Analyze the internal environment of a company for strengths and weaknesses that impact the firm’s competitiveness.
• Identify various levels and types of strategy in a firm.
• Predict ways in which corporate governance will affect strategic decisions.
• Assess the relationship between strategy and organizational structure.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in business administration.
• Write clearly and concisely about business administration using proper writing mechanics.

Respond to the following questions in your own words. Your responses should include specific examples and should incorporate concepts and terms from Chapters 12, 13, 14 and 15 in your textbook.

1. Define ethics in a business context. Do you believe ethics have an impact on profit? Why? Why not? Provide specific examples.
2. Write 3–5 paragraphs on the Chrysler, LLC, Versus Plastech Engineered Products Inc. Vignette in Chapter 17. Address the following questions:

• • Who is really at fault?
  • Could the legal issues between Chrysler and Plastech have been resolved in a more constructive manner without litigation?
  • How could this situation have been prevented?

Writing Requirements

• Include 3 research sources that can be from the Internet and/or other sources.
• APA format, 3–5 pages in length (excluding cover page, abstract, and reference list)
• Use the APA template attached to complete the assignment.