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6 Ethical Issues Related to Personnel Assessment and Selection
Pages 101-108

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... He began his presentation by offering a detailed, albeit fictitious, case study that raised a number of potential ethical issues related to personnel assessment, selection, and assignment. Lowman gave the following fictitious account of a future scenario: The year is 2035.
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From page 102...
... And if those creating the tools and technologies do not anticipate and prepare for the ethical issues that will arise, Lowman cautioned that the practical utility of many tools may be limited. CODES OF ETHICS With the case study providing context for the challenges ahead, L ­ owman encouraged the workshop participants to examine some of the issues that it raised.
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From page 103...
... It has been widely emulated around the world, he said, and it is more advanced than many others in how it thinks through areas of conflict. The APA code of ethics, Lowman continued, "has 5 aspirational prin­ ciples, which are things that people are supposed to think about and aspire to, and 10 enforceable standards." As an example of an aspirational principle, he exhibited the following principle, which concerns benefi­ cence and nonmalevolence: Psychologists strive to benefit those with whom they work and take care to do no harm.
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From page 104...
... . ETHICAL ISSUES RELATED TO EMERGING ASSESSMENT TECHNOLOGIES To close, Lowman raised six specific ethical issues relevant to assess­ ment technologies, and he discussed each briefly.
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From page 105...
... And third, who decides issues related to profile fit? How should technical experts in assessment deal with others who have influence in making selection decisions?
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From page 106...
... Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, noted that the ethics of genetic information in military selection is not a concern for the foresee­ able future. "Congress passed a law banning all organizations, federal and nonfederal," he explained, "from receiving, using, or retaining genetic information for .
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From page 107...
... He cited former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart as having said: "Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do." And from philosopher Bertrand Russell: "An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do." And from Lowman himself: "Ethical questions and conflicts anticipated and discussed tend to be ethical issues avoided." REFERENCES American Psychological Association.
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