You are the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. You are currently being sued by 5 female employees who are claiming gender discrimination in hiring and pay for the females at your company. Two of the females are also claiming they were sexually harassed by their supervisors. After extensive investigation, you have determined that the claims by the females employees are (for the most part) unfounded. You are sitting in your attorney's office trying to decide if you should settle with the employees or continue fighting the accusations. Answer the following questions:a) List the factors you should consider as you make a decision to litigate. b) List concerns you would have as an employer litigating a sexual harassment case. c) What is your decision? Why?

Answer with Explanation:

Part A. I would like to consult my attorney and will provide him following information:

Hiring Policies of Company that tends to avoid gender discrimination by following these policies.I will show them Human Resource Workings that clearly show why a candidate was preferred over other employees. The criteria set by the company and their relevance and where did the other candidates lacked.I will also show them audited remunerations for the year and the opinion of auditors which will justify that the company is not paying different salaries or wages to people of same designation and is not involved in pay discrimination.Will also provide the attorney with company policies regarding the sexual harassment at work and controls implemented to prevent such things in the work environment.Interact with the supervisors to know why the females were of the opinion that they were sexually harassed to know whether or not they were sexually harassing females.

Part B. Following are the concerns as a part of an organization that is litigating sexual harassment case will ruin their reputation in the market. This will defame the company as the people will question the company's work environment. The most important thing is that the company must strictly adhere to sexual harassment and gender discrimination policies to prevent such litigation and loss of reputation.

Part C. The posh committee investigation would be relied on which would decide whether we must settle the dispute out of court or in the court. The investigation report can be used in the court as a supporting.

The possible action in the company can be suspension of the accused person or transferring them in an area where they will supervise male juniors till the settlement of the case. And if it is proven that the supervisor was involved in harassing the females then we will fire them from the company.

Ibelieve it would be choice a ($24,630)

The correct answer is "c) beginning inventory for the first quarter"