Overview

CapraTek is a 45-year-old virtual company that specializes in the design and manufacture of computer server components. A CapraTek manufacturing facility is located in a medium-sized city in Georgia and employees almost 1,000 manufacturing employees who work at unskilled, skilled, supervisory, and management levels. The facility is required to submit an annual EEO-1 report, and for this assessment you will demonstrate your understanding of how an EEO-1 report can be used to analyze its workforce.

Preparation

Read the CapraTek Workforce Demographics and Salary Range [PDF] document, and apply the data to your assessment.

Instructions

Using the workforce data from the Georgia manufacturing facility for CapraTek (linked above), develop a complete workforce utilization analysis to present to HR leadership:

• Evaluate the stock statistics. Your analysis is to include Black or African Americans, Hispanic or Latinos, and females for both skilled and unskilled laborers. Be sure to consider any legal impacts for staffing as you evaluate the stock, concentration, and flow statistics.
• Evaluate the concentration statistics. Your analysis is to include unskilled laborers.
• Evaluate the flow statistics. Use the 4/5ths rule and in your analysis include Black or African Americans, Hispanic or Latinos, and females for both skilled and unskilled laborers.
• Develop recommendations to correct identified issues. Use your findings from the stock, concentration, and flow statistics for CapraTek’s manufacturing facility to support your recommendations.

Your Workforce Utilization Analysis should demonstrate graduate-level writing skills through the accurate communication of thoughts that support a central idea and use of correct grammar and mechanics as expected of a human resources professional.