Week2 EOC: Sweet Charity What she did right and what she did wrong?

As the book states :Avoiding Discrimination in Job Descriptions Writing a job description takes care. Job descriptions must focus on the required job duties, identify the essential functions of the position, and describe them in clear and neutral language. Essential functions are the key duties an individual must be able to perform with or without reasonable accommodation. For example, the job description for a sauté cook might include several essential functions: • Identifies and prepares selected cuts of meat, poultry, shellfish, fish, or vegetables for sautéing • Sautés items and prepares appropriate sauces • Plates sautéed items with appropriate garnishes • Maintains a well-organized and sanitary workstation. To comply with the spirit and intent of the ADA, managers may be asked to clarify what is involved in specific duties and whether there are alternate ways to accomplish them. These alternate ways are known as reasonable accommodations. Reasonable accommodations include adjustments or modifications to facilities, job duties, equipment, policies, or practices provided by the employer to enable people with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations enable a person with a disability to have equal employment opportunities (see Exhibit 16.4). Employers are not required to lower quality, service, or production standards. The accommodation should assist the individual in achieving these standards. Employers are best served when they focus on essential functions and minor duties of the position, and not dictate the method of completing a particular task when more than one acceptable method exists. An employer does not need to accommodate a qualified person with a disability if doing so would cause an undue hardship. Undue hardship is an action causing significant difficulty or expense when considered in light of factors such as an employer’s size, financial resources, and the nature and structure of its operation. The clearer the job description, the easier it will be to address accommodation issues and determine whether accommodation is possible. For example, if a person is not able to hold a knife, that person cannot be a butcher. There is no way to accommodate for the lack of that motor skill. However, if a bus person is not able to carry heavy trays, multiple clearing trips or the use of a cart may be possible.In this movie Sweet Charity you have Taxi dancers wanting to get out of the Taxi business and get a regular job. In the movie one of the dancers go to get a regular 9 to 5 in the movie the things she did wrong, First she walked straight into her interviewer not letting the front desk know that she was here for her interview in the process int interviewer was on a call and she stood there and listened on his conversation, she always should have dressed more of a business attire seeing as that was the job she was applying for she also didn't make eye contact. The interviewer also asked her about alot of skills needed for the position which she had no experience in the field she should have asked him where she could attain those qualifications or get her GED to be able to qualify for the job. In the interview he felt like his co workers had played a joke on him so to save her pride she went along with the joke like they had sent her that was the only good thing she did in the movie. I feel she should have asked more questions told the interviewer where she was coming from and where she was trying to go instead of playing along with the joke she could have got helpful information from this interviewer because she wasn't going to see him again.