Affirmative Action and the Law” Please respond to the following:
- Analyze the Bakke and the University of Michigan rulings and discuss two implications these court rulings have on you as the personnel manager of your agency.
- Debate It: Take a position for or against the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in 1986 on the use of affirmative action in hiring, promotion, and layoffs for your agency. Provide at two reasons and examples to support your position.
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Supreme Court of the United States passed a ruling that admissions in the University of Michigan and Bakke diversity should be considered. People from the minority groups and those from other countries were very welcome to be admitted to the university basing on the ruling (Joshi, 2016). The decision was very crucial and would have some major implications for me as a personnel manager in my agency. To begin with, the work of a personnel manager is hiring and recruiting while maintaining good welfare among employees.(379words)