03/27/12 - The HR Practitioner's Guide to Adverse Impact
The HR Practitioner's Guide to Adverse Impact Analysis
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 from 1:00 - 2:30 PM Eastern
The idea of adverse impact has been around for nearly 50 years. Even though the concept is widely understood, employers are still faced with hundreds of discrimination lawsuits every year. The reason for this is that employers are taking the wrong approach to preventing adverse impact.
Employers spend almost $300 million and countless hours every year in seminars talking about communication, conflict resolution and diversity. While this time and money we spend on training can reduce the occurrence of intentional discrimination, it does nothing to address the causes of adverse impact.
Managing the risk of adverse impact requires examining your employment policies and practices with quantitative tools. If you aren’t proactively monitoring for adverse impact, you may not learn of a problem until it’s too late. Many employers are unaware that one of their policies or practices is creating adverse impact until they’re faced with a lawsuit.
This presentation will equip you with some tools you can use to begin looking for adverse impact in your employment selection decisions, and teach you how to apply the analysis inferences to your business processes.
