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Scenario 10-1 For Four Months You Have Been Employed as the Part-Time

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Scenario 10-1
For four months you have been employed as the part-time HRM for TS Inc., a small Canadian aviation company. In the past, recruitment and selection rested on the shoulders of the president and, like most small companies, TS Inc. used employee referrals and an informal interview processes in selecting employees. Since you have been hired, you have guided management through several stages of the recruitment and selection process to hire an aircraft maintenance engineer. TS Inc. has used proper selection methods, such as screening, testing, and structured interviews, but is not sure about how to integrate the data from these various sources. In the past, the president relied on his gut feeling about applicants and made poor hiring decisions.
-Refer to Scenario 10-1. TS Inc. is aware that the selection process can be subjective and susceptible to errors. Management is particularly concerned about the aircraft maintenance engineers who have the qualifications but may be mistakenly eliminated. What is this error called?

Distinguish between formal and informal fallacies.

Understand the basic structure and elements of arguments, including premises and conclusions.

Differentiate between various types of statements within arguments, such as descriptive premises, propositions, and definitional premises.

Recognize the difference between deductive and inductive reasoning and their implications on the soundness and validity of arguments.

Definitions:

Decision-Making Methods

are systematic techniques used to choose among alternatives and make informed choices.

Authority Decision

A decision made by the leader and then communicated to the group.

Leader After Receiving Information

The decision-making and action phase that a leader enters once they have been provided with relevant data or insights.

Transformational Leadership

Leadership that is inspirational and arouses extraordinary effort and performance.