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Case Study: Belles Feuilles North America (BFNA)
Belles Feuilles North America is the U.S. and Canada branch of Belles Feuilles Construction Group, an international construction company with branches throughout the world. The Roads Group of BFNA has built highways and bridges throughout North America.
Joe Salazar and Carol Pryblowski have worked as civil engineers at BFNA since they graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in 1993. Their careers have paralleled each other, as the first one and then the other were hired into the Design Unit. Both have served as project engineers in Construction Units overseeing highway construction on projects of similar size and complexity. Each engineer has received good to excellent evaluations from a succession of supervisors. Friendly competitors, they have attended similar training sessions and enjoy an occasional social lunch together.
When the opportunity to apply for a promotion to supervisor of an engineering unit came up, they both applied. Joe was hired. Carol was bewildered because she truly believed she was better qualified for the position. A friend encouraged her to see a work discrimination lawyer because Carol's description of the process led the friend to believe that illegal discrimination occurred.
(Minimum of 750 words for each question, this excludes the reference section at the bottom from your word count. You are also required to use a minimum of FOUR scholarly external sources references. Use proper APA guidelines, you only have to make reference to the author and year of publication in your in-text reference, but APA guidelines encourage you to also provide the page number.
1. Explain why is it important for a company to have a defensible and fair promotional policy?(750 words)
2. Describe the types of documentation the company should have to determine the promotion? What information should Carol’s lawyer request of the company to determine is the promotion was illegal discrimination? (750 words)
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1. Explain why is it important for a company to have a defensible and fair promotional
policy?
Promotion is defined as the advancement of an employee from one level to another
within the organization or between different organizations. Promotions are accompanied by
increased responsibilities and higher pay. Promotional policies are the rules and guidelines
that are used by organizations to make clarifications regarding any adjustments made on
employee pay based on the employee’s position and job category. The organization can also
use the promotional policy to help its employees in their career growth through the provision
of a good work environment and the resources needed. Employees will also be encouraged to
develop their skills and capacities as they seek to help the organization achieve its goals
(Aguinis, 2013).
The organization should put in place guidelines that will ensure that the promotional
policies are fair, consistent and uniform especially when it comes to matters of promoting
employees as was the case at BFNA. The policy should also have ways of creating and
sustaining the morale of employees by encouraging them to make application for the
openings that they are qualified for. Promotions at various organizations are normally as a
result of a new job opening and reclassification of existing positions. In most companies, the
current employees are normally encouraged to apply for the posts and they are more likely to
be considered for the positions if they are qualified before outsiders can be considered.
It is important for the organization to have a promotional policy that is fair and
defensible so as to avoid any legal issues that might arise from promotions. To ensure that
the promotional policy is fair and defensible, the organization should make sure that the
promotion process is conducted in an open, fair and transparent as well (Anitha, 2014). All
the employees who are interested in the position should be given an equal chance when
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