HRM400
Critical Thinking Rubric - Module 2
Meets Expectation
Content, Research, and Analysis
9-10 Points
Requirements
Includes all of the
required
components,
including all of the
bullet point items,
as specified in the
assignment.
9-10 Points
Content
Demonstrates
strong or adequate
knowledge of
equal employment
opportunity and
managing
diversity; correctly
represents
knowledge from
the readings and
sources.
9-10 Points
Analysis
Provides strong or
adequate thought,
insight and
analysis of HR laws
and the impact of
diversity in the
workplace.
9-10 Points
Sources
Cites and
integrates at least
2-3 credible
sources as
specified in
description.
Mechanics and Writing
9-10 Points
Demonstrates
Project is clearly
college-level
organized, well
proficiency in
written, and in
organization,
proper format as
grammar and
outlined in the
style.
assignment. Strong
sentence and
Approaches
Expectation
Below Expectation
Limited Evidence
7-8 Points
Includes most of
the required
components, as
specified in the
assignment.
5-6 Points
Includes some of
the required
components, as
specified in the
assignment.
3-4 Points
Includes few of the
required
components, as
specified in the
assignment.
7-8 Points
Some significant
but not major
errors or omissions
in demonstration
of knowledge.
5-6 Points
Major errors or
omissions in
demonstration of
knowledge.
3-4 Points
Fails to
demonstrate
knowledge of the
materials.
7-8 Points
Some significant
but not major
errors or omissions
in thought, insight
and analysis.
5-6 Points
Major errors or
omissions in
thought, insight
and analysis.
3-4 Points
Fails to
demonstrate
thought, insight
and analysis.
7-8 Points
Cites and
integrates 1-2
credible sources as
specified in
description.
5-6 Points
Cites and
integrates 1
credible source as
specified in
description.
3-4 Points
Cites and
integrates no
credible sources.
7-8 Points
Project is fairly well
organized and
written, and is in
proper format as
outlined in the
assignment.
Reasonably good
5-6 Points
Project is poorly
organized; does
not follow proper
paper format.
Inconsistent to
inadequate
sentence and
3-4 Points
Project is not
organized or well
written, and is not
in proper paper
format. Poor
quality work;
unacceptable in
HRM400
Critical Thinking Rubric - Module 2
paragraph
structure; few
errors in grammar
and spelling.
sentence and
paragraph
structure;
significant number
of errors in
grammar and
spelling.
9-10 Points
7-8 Points
Demonstrates
Project contains
Few errors in APA
proper use of
proper APA
formatting,
APA style
formatting,
according to the
according to the
CSU-Global Guide
CSU-Global Guide
to Writing and APA
to Writing and APA Requirements, with
Requirements,
no more than two
with no more than to three significant
errors.
one significant
error.
Total points possible = 60
paragraph
development;
numerous errors in
grammar and
spelling.
terms of grammar
and spelling.
5-6 Points
Significant errors in
APA formatting,
according to the
CSU-Global Guide
to Writing and APA
Requirements, with
four to five
significant errors.
3-4 Points
Numerous errors in
APA formatting,
according to the
CSU-Global Guide
to Writing and APA
Requirements, with
more than five
significant errors.
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MyManagementLab®
If your instructor has assigned this, go to mymanagementlab.com for Auto-graded writing questions as well as the following Assisted-
graded writing questions:
3-6. Kate has severe diabetes that seriously limits her ability to eat. Even when taking insulin to help manage her diabetes,
Kate must test her blood sugar several times a day and strictly monitor the availability of food, the time she eats, and the
type and quantity of food she eats to avoid serious medical consequences. Does Kate have a disability under the ADA?
Explain your answer.
3-7. Under the ADA, is an obese individual considered to have a disability and therefore be eligible for coverage? Explain.
3-8. What are bona fide occupational qualifications (BFOQ)? What is a business necessity? Can race be a BFOQ? Can it be a
business necessity? Why or why not?
You Manage It! 1: Emerging Trends
Walgreens Leads the Way in Utilizing Workers 3-10. Only about half of the people with disabilities who want to
with Disabilities
work are employed. What barriers do people with disabili-
ties face in obtaining employment that are not concerns of
In 2008, Walgreens, one of the nation's largest drugstore retailers,
other groups protected by the EEOC, such as minorities,
opened a state-of-the-art distribution center in Windsor, Connecticut. It
women, or the aged?
is the company's second facility designed specifically to employ people
with disabilities and is patterned after a similar one that opened in 2007
in South Carolina. Managers at both facilities share a goal of having
Team Exercise
people with disabilities fill at least one-third of the available jobs. 3-11. A serious barrier to employment of people with disabilities
Walgreens has developed a reputation as a company that offers
continues to be a perception problem. Managers and co-
meaningful jobs to people with diverse backgrounds, with equal
workers lack knowledge, awareness, and comfort in work-
opportunities for advancement and job mobility. Company leaders
ing with employees with disabilities. Form a team with
intend to open more distribution centers that employ workers with three or four classmates and develop a strategy to overcome
disabilities and plan to use the experience in the facilities in Connecti-
misperceptions surrounding utilizing employees with dis-
cut and South Carolina to provide managers in other units with infor-
abilities. Be ready to present your team's ideas to the rest
mation that will result in the hiring of more people with disabilities.
of the class when called on by the instructor.
The South Carolina distribution center has a workforce of 400,
with 50 percent having a disclosed physical or cognitive disability.
Yet the facility's efficiency increased by 20 percent since its open-
Experiential Exercise: Individual
ing, after technology and process changes originally intended to 3-12. The purpose of this exercise is to raise your self-awareness
accommodate workers with disabilities improved everyone's jobs. of some of the problems faced by employees with disabili-
According to one of Walgreens' corporate executives of human
ties in the workforce. Assume that you have had an acci-
resources, the experience of creating a disability-friendly environ-
dent that will restrict your mobility for a year and that you
ment in its distribution centers has been a transforming event for
will need to use a wheelchair while you recover from the
the company. Walgreens' success in hiring people with disabilities accident. Consider how the restrictions on your mobility
to work at its distribution centers has influenced more than a dozen
would affect your life as a student. What accommodations
U.S. companies, including Lowe's, Procter & Gamble, and Best
would your teachers need to make for you so you could at-
Buy, to follow Walgreens' model.
tend your classes during the academic year? If you are em-
Many employers do not share or practice Walgreens' level of ployed on a part-time job, would you be able to continue
long-term commitment and investment in hiring people with disabili- doing this job as before in a wheelchair? If not, would the
ties, but demographic trends suggest that more companies should- employer be able to restructure the job in a way so you
and ultimately will have to—as growth of the traditional labor pool could make a significant contribution as an employee?
slows, the workforce ages, and disability rates increase. As more busi-
How would the job change? How could you convince your
ness executives recognize and support the hiring and development employer that you should be retained in your job? Be pre-
of workers with disabilities, a chronically underemployed group, the
pared to share your answers to these questions with other
business benefits of tapping this talent pool becomes clear.
members of the class.
Critical Thinking Questions
3-9. What are the tangible and intangible benefits that
Walgreens receives by being a leader in hiring employees
with disabilities?
Sources: Based on Otto, B. (2013, January 14). Walgreens is not always the an-
swer. Huffington Post. www.huffingtonpost.com; Wells, S. (2008, April). Counting
on workers with disabilities: The nation's largest minority remains an underused
resource. HRMagazine, 45-49; Medical News Today. (2006, July 8). Walgreens
recruits employees with disabilities through new highly accessible web site. www
.medicalnewstoday.com.
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