ADMS 2400 Lecture 37: ADMS 2400 Lecture 37 Notes
3 May 2018
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ADMS 2400 Lecture 37 Notes –HR Staff
Introduction
• An HR staff member suggested that Paul be asked to participate in a detailed medical
assessment to prove that he could not complete the essential operational requirements
of the job.
• This suggestion did not sit well with Nicholas.
• A medical assessment could be regarded as invasive, and the procedure would lead to
Paul being expected to share a great deal of confidential medical information.
• Furthermore, as with any management job, it was hard to distinguish the essential
aspects of the job from the secondary ones.
• Presenting and defending monthly financial reports, for example, was a key part of the
job.
• It was also very stressful, as the reports were examined and questioned in detail by
powerful senior executives.
• Since stress was a trigger for flare-ups of Crohn’s disease, ould Paul handle the
pressure?
• What about travel to head office?
• This was also stressful, and travel might well prove impossible for Paul.
• Was it fair to expect Paul to try, given his medical condition?
• Niholas’ iggest onern, hoeer, as that Paul ould not alays e physially
available to the staff.
• Nicholas felt that the physical presence of a manager in the office was central to the
orderly flow of information, completion of daily tasks, and maintenance of a supportive
and collegial environment.
• He did not kno if he ould truly justify alling that physial presene essential, ut his
gut told him it was.
• Under pressure to decide whether to fill the new position internally or externally,
Nicholas was not sure that he was making the right choice
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