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Hopwood Manufacturing: Seeking to Hire the Best and the Brightest, or Not (A)
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In this case series Robert Harvey, a business professor at a small university in Iowa, United States, had arranged for Hopwood Manufacturing Company to come to the campus to interview his students for internship and management-in-training positions, only to learn that the recruiters appeared to be more interested in the ethnicities of the candidates than their qualifications. Harvey must now decide what action to take in response to the recruiters’ discriminatory statements.
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This case may be used in organizational behaviour, human resource management, and general management courses as well as other courses addressing employment decisions, workplace diversity, and ethical issues. The following are the primary teaching objectives:<ul><li>To examine the complexity of the hiring process.</li><li>To illustrate the challenges associated with enforcing organizational policies with respect to third parties.</li><li>To explore the role of a mid-level employee facing obligations to multiple stakeholders with different interests at stake. In this case, these stakeholders are students, recruiters, supervisors, and other mid-level employees such as those in human resources and career services.</li</ul>