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Question: Viewing the Family and Medical Leave Act from the perspective of a working department manager, describe the ways in which this legislation has affected a supervisor's ability to manage.

1. Why is important for employers and employees to be familiar with legal issues in the healthcare workplace? What does public policy exception to employment-at-will mean?

2. Why are there no consequences to patients who demand doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals of a specific race to administer their healthcare? Can hospitals that adhere to gender-or race-based patient demands face discrimination lawsuits from employees?

3. What are job descriptions and job analysis? What are the steps in a job analysis, and why should healthcare executives conduct a job analysis?

4. How can the existence of a high-quality job analysis make a particular human resources function, such as employee selection less legally vulnerable?

5. You have been asked by your supervisor to develop a plan to recruit for ten nursing positions for your hospital. She wants you to use both internal and external recruiting sources. First define recruitment and discuss the different types of recruitment sources you will be using for this plan. Identify an advantage and disadvantage of internal and external recruiting sources.

6. Is affirmative action still necessary to ensure equal employment opportunity? Given the diversity in the United States, should we begin to think about class-based rather than race-based affirmative action.

7. Why is mental disability so difficult to define in the context of the Americans with Disabilities Act? Should there be a uniform definition of reasonable accommodations in the Americans with Disabilities Act?