Unit 5 Assignment Answers

3. I have several thoughts as to what type of criteria managers would look at to fire someone. Including: What positions do I need on the team, which human capital is most important for my business to obtain, what are each employees performance reviews, years of service, most educated for the job, best potential, is there anyone that plans on leaving soon, which employee really needs the job. A lot of these criteria involve the need principle which is a valid and common reason that some employees are kept over others. While this option is good I would especially focus on procedural justice this will keep my ideas transparent to those employees that I keep and the one I don't. A huge key to this policy is being respectful of all employees as you decide whom to terminate. I would also focus on the equity principle because while I want to choose the right person to lay off I want to make sure that the

Managers also have different type of conflict resolution styles that work for them so some managers may simply look at the lay off as an opportunity to rid themselves of an employee they don't particularly care for. But in this scenario I would be looking at some of the above characteristics in order to make the best possible decision for their team and business. For example, if the work team built robots and you have 4 engineers, 1 coder, and 5 gophers the team could not work without the coder because it is essential human capital especially, if that individual has knowledge that they have not shared with the whole team. But then how do you decide which gopher is to be terminated. This choices could be made simply by performance reviews, if they have been significantly bad then that is the route I would go because it is obvious to all employee the reason for