The HR Practitioner’s Guide To Adverse Impact Analysis 2012

• The theory of adverse impact and how it differs from intentional discrimination
• Why adverse impact is a problem for employers and how conventional training fails?
• Common sources of adverse impact
• Where in an organization adverse impact typically occurs?
• Basic statistical inference and statistical significance
• The Four-Fifths Rule and its disadvantages
• Calculation and evaluation of surplus and shortfall protected group selections
• Foundation of comparative statistical analysis
• The importance of properly defining the study population
• Criteria validation – job-relatedness and business necessity
• Statistical tools typically used in adverse impact analysis
• Interpretation of analysis results: statistical significance, practical significance and sample size
• The limitations of statistics in addressing adverse impact

The HR Practitioner’s Guide To Adverse Impact Analysis brings together CFOs, HR and compensation professionals, Any person with an interest in internal pay equity, EEO and Compliance Officers.