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This 5-page paper focuses on whether or not affirmative action has been effective in terms of governmental hiring, recruitment and training. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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had to "balance" their workforces with minorities (such as women and African-Americans) to level the playing field, there was a great deal of negative talk about "quotas" and the fact
that the best-qualified person wouldnt get the job. The question we try to answer in this paper, however, is what impact affirmative
action has had in the hiring and recruiting in the area of government agencies. While there are certainly statistics available indicating that more minorities have been hired since affirmative action
has been introduced, in terms of effectiveness, it basically depends on who youve been talking to. Back in 2000, for example, Holzer
and Neumark (2000) conducted a survey of employees to determine how affirmative action in terms of recruiting and hiring practices impacted personnel policies and employment outcomes. The authors found that,
in addition to hiring more ethnic minorities and women that affirmative action programs also increased "the number of recruitment and screening objectives used by employers, raises employers willingness to hire
stigmatized applicants, increases the number of minority or female applicants as well as employees, and increases employers tendencies to provide training and formally evaluate employees" (Holzer and Neumark, 2000).
Even better for this particular study is that when it came to affirmative action, the employees hired were of high quality --
and the performance of these employees were strong as well (Holzer and Neumark, 2000). The authors pointed out that "affirmative action" isnt
necessarily limited to basic employment recruitment and hiring, but rather can include things like outreach/special recruitment efforts, switches in screening practices, switches when it comes to pay or promotion standards,
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