Rose Is a Human Resources Manager for a Rapidly Growing

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Rose is a human resources manager for a rapidly growing corporation.The firm recently hired one hundred new workers,ten of whom were involved in workplace accidents soon after they were hired.It was determined that alcohol usage was the cause of these accidents.Top management has asked Rose to do a better job in screening potential workers for alcohol abuse to avoid this in the future.Rose should point out that in fact the ten percent of the recent-hires with alcohol issues is actually much lower than the overall percentage of employees with alcohol issues that are involved in industrial injuries and fatalities in the U.S.

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