Dissertation

What changes, if any, would you suggest in the recruitment campaign you have been asked to help design?  What specific recruitment techniques might increase the diversity of the pool of applicants? Are there any approaches to increasing the success rate for minority applicants that you would rule out from consideration?  If so, why (relating your […]

Assuming that, despite your best efforts, the success rate for recruiting minority applicants is less than 80% of the success rate for non-minority applicants.  What would your advice be to the Fire Commission when it had to determine whether to certify the results?  What would be necessary to defend the adequacy of the recruitment/testing methods […]

There are no women fire fighters employed by the city, although other, similarly-sized cities do have a significant number of women fire fighters. What general advice might you give as to approaching this issue, in hopes of ultimately increasing the number of women fire fighters?  

What sort of recruitment campaign would you suggest to increase the number of minority applicants?  Discuss advertising and other approaches to this topic.

Discuss how you might try to achieve the Fire Commission’s desire to have a fire department that more accurately reflects the population it serves, with specific reference to the wish to have approximately 30% of the new hires to be from the minority communities.

Discuss how you would approach the issue of designing an entrance exam to avoid a much lower pass rate for minority candidates than non-minority candidates.

In the past, women have done better than any other group of candidates on the written exam, but have all failed the physical exam. There are no women fire fighters employed by the city, although other cities have them. How would you approach the issue of trying to recruit women and succeed in hiring women […]

Discuss Disclosure, Apology, and Offer programs.  Compare and contrast benefits and drawbacks to the organization and the patient/family and/or provider. Analyze the impact to patient care outcomes. Provide examples and supporting evidence.

Topic (Compare and contrast the effect of technology of ancient art)

1.    Read Dutchman alongside the “Battle Royale” scene in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952). Discuss how the sexualized, interracial relationship between white women and African American male identity evolves between the two works. 2. Read “If You Saw a Negro Lady” alongside Sonia Sanchez’s “Queens of the Universe” in A Blues Book for a Blue Black Magic Woman (1974). Compare how both women describe African American […]