LEB Industries (LEB) manufactures motors. It has 7,200 employees with its headquarters in Akron, Ohio. LEB has plants in

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LEB Industries (LEB) manufactures motors. It has 7,200 employees
with its headquarters in Akron, Ohio. LEB has plants in Akron,
Milwaukee, Seattle, Providence, Detroit, Tampa, and Phoenix. The
plants in Akron, Milwaukee, Seattle, Providence, and Detroit are
unionized. LEB is in the process of hiring a plant manager (PM) for
its Detroit plant. Although LEB has experienced above average
growth and profit, the Detroit plant has been a trouble spot. Over
the past three years, production costs there have been high. These
higher costs are due to several factors (e.g., a high level of
absenteeism that results in considerable overtime). The most recent
PM at Detroit was terminated three months ago. She had been the PM
for six years.
Because of its importance, LEB publicized the Detroit PM job
opening externally via an advertisement that ran in trade
publications and internally via the company’s email system
(employees were asked to nominate others and themselves). The same
ad (see Exhibit 1) was used for internal and external recruitment.
LEB received 75 applications from external candidates and 11
responses from internal candidates. LEB narrowed the external
applicant pool by screening on five factors: (1) an applicant had
to be at least 35 years old (LEB felt a person younger than this
could not have the needed work experience), (2) an applicant had to
have legal status to work in the United States (i.e., LEB did not
want to bother going through the visa approval process), (3) LEB
rejected external candidates who lacked a college degree (given
most external applicants had a degree, LEB felt it could be
“picky”), (4) an applicant had to pass a credit reference check,
and (5) external candidates were required to have experience in a
unionized plant (this was seen as important given the Detroit plant
was unionized). These five screening factors resulted in only two
external candidates making the final pool of eight candidates. Of
the 11 internal candidates for the PM position, five were
eliminated from the final pool. These five were eliminated because
they had been with LEB for less than two years (i.e., they were
seen as having insufficient experience with LEB).
You are the VP of Human Resources for LEB. Given you have been
in this position for less than 3 months (you came from outside the
company), you had no control over the selection process that was
used. You are to write a report addressing:
a discussion of information that was lacking that you would like
to have had (be sure to explain why you would like to have had this
information).