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Corporate Restructuring

Corporate Restructuring

Your response should be at least three pages in length.Eastern Financial Company recently experienced a corporate restructuring. Because some new jobs were added and some old jobs eliminated, many job responsibilities changed. HR hired an Organizational Development (OD) consultant, Joe, to help moderate the various changes in the corporate structure.

Because of the restructuring, the selection criteria used in the past needed to be updated. Joe recommended additional selection measures and planned to conduct some validation studies of the old and new selection criteria. Depending on the results of these validation studies, he recommended eliminating or revising some of the selection methods used.

How would Joe determine the base rate of successful employees at the company?

Based on your view of predictive validity, how do you think Joe would demonstrate that the old and new selection criteria at Eastern Financial Company predict job performance after the corporate restructuring? What steps would Joe need to take to do this?

Based on your view of concurrent validity, when would it be useful to study the concurrent validity of a measure? Should Joe try to demonstrate concurrent validity?

When restructuring, what does Joe need to keep in mind in order to avoid charges of discrimination when employees are settled into new positions?

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Whenever a company is undergoing restructuring, it is always important to ensure the continued validity and effectiveness of the current jobs. In the above case, the restructuring will lead to some old jobs being eliminated in order to facilitate the change. In order to ensure that validity and effectiveness of the jobs is maintained, Joe will have to evaluate the validity of the current jobs in the company and the possible addition of criteria being added to the other job positions. Therefore, Joe can use past performance techniques such as employee surveys, employee interviews and job observations. However, it will…………………
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