Since the passage of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and more recent Federal legislation, managers, regulators, and attorneys have been busy in sorting out the legal meaning of fairness in employment. While ethical managers must follow the law in their hiring practices, they cannot be satisfied with legal compliance. In this article, we first briefly summarize what the law requires in terms of fair hiring practices. We subsequently rely on multiple perspectives to explore the ethical meaning of fairness in hiring. Ethical fairness underlies the law and regulations in this area, but goes beyond them as well. We conclude by demonstrating that ethical hiring practices enable managers to make better hiring decisions. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2006Ethics, Fairness, Personnel Law, Staffing,
By using the compartmental analysis approach of pharmacokinetics, found useful in describing the kinetics of a foreign compound in a biological system, a rather simple mathematical model was developed to predict, by computer simulation, steady-state pesticide residues in fish from limited pre-steady-state experimental data. Such steady-state data are needed in order to calculate the tendency of the residue to concentrate in fish--the so-called bioconcentration factor. The model was applied to four different carbon-14 labeled biocides at seven concentrations. Considering the simplicity of the model and the fact that residues were measured by the non-specific technique of radioassay, model predicted values were in good agreement with experimental values.
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