Question

Laying off Workers

Every manager, at some point in his or her career, is likely to be faced with the difficult task of laying off employees. Assume that you are the manager in the internal auditing department of a 4,500-member corporation. You have been notified by top management that you must permanently reduce your staff by two individuals. Below are some data about your five employees.

Emma Connor: African-American female, age 32. Emma has been employed with your company for five years in the accounting department. Her evaluations over the past three years have been outstanding, above average, and outstanding. Emma has an MBA from a top-25 business school. She has been on short-term disability for the past few weeks because of the birth of her second child and is expected to return to work in 20 weeks.

Ron Johnson: White male, age 49. Ron has been with you for four months and has 11 years of experience in the company in payroll. He has an associate's degree in business administration and bachelor's and master's degrees in I: He's also a CPA. Ron's evaluations over the past three years in payroll have been average, but he did save the company $150,000 on a suggestion he made regarding using electronic time sheets.

Julie Sapp: White female, age 35. Julie has been with your company seven years. Four years ago, Julie was in an automobile accident while traveling on business to a customer's location. As a result of the accident, she was disabled and is wheelchair-bound. Rumors have it that she is about to receive several million dollars from the insurance company of the driver that hit her. Her performance during the past two years has been above average. She has a bachelor's degree in accounting and specializes In computer information systems.

Jose Hernandez: Hispanic male, age 31. Jose has been with the company almost four years. His evaluations over the past three years in your department have been outstanding. He is committed to getting the job done and devoting whatever it takes. He has also shown initiative by taking job assignments that no one else wanted, and he has recovered a number of overdue and uncollected accounts

Bobby Hayden: African-American male, age 43. Bobby just completed his double master's degree in taxation and law and recently passed the bar exam. He has been with your department for four years. His evaluations have been good to above average. Five years ago, Bobby won a lawsuit against your company for discriminating against him in a promotion to a supervisory position. Rumors have it that now, with his new degree, Bobby is actively pursuing another job outside the company.

Given these five brief descriptions, which two employees should be laid off and Why?

Answer 1

Julie sapp and Bobby Hayden are two employees that can be laid off from the company as Bobby hayden would definitely land a new job with his skills and experience and degrees that he possess and that he is also looking out for the new job and Julie sapp would not face much of economic burden when laid off as she is about to receive huge sum of money from her insurance. Although all are good employees for the company, any two people has to be laid off as per top management and therefore these two employee can be laid off.