Practitioner's Guide to Legal Issues in Organizations

Measuring Adverse Impact in Employee Selection Decisions.- Test Validation Strategies.- Test Validation Pitfalls.- Using Background Checks in the Employee Selection Process.- Physical Abilities.- Setting cut-scores.- Disabilities: Best Practices for Vulnerabilities Associated with the ADA.- Validation issues in the Public Sector.- Clinical Psychological Evaluations for Pre-Employment Selection.- Compensation Equity: Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How.- Wage and Hour Litigation.

Chester Hanvey is a consultant at Lamorinda Consulting LLC where he specializes in statistical analyses and conducting job analyses, often in response to active litigation. His primary expertise is in designing and conducting job analyses in response to class action litigation regarding compliance with federal and state wage and hour laws such as misclassification, meal and rest break violations and off-the-clock work. He has also been involved in cases dealing with discrimination in the forms of adverse impact, disability, physical abilities testing and equal pay. In his career, Dr. Hanvey has studied over 50 organizations in industries ranging from law enforcement to fast food chains to computer chip and software designers. Dr. Hanvey received an MA and Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational psychology with a minor in quantitative methods (statistics) from the University of Houston. He has taught undergraduate courses on introductory psychology and graduate level labs on statistical analysis. In addition, Dr. Hanvey has provided deposition testimony, given presentation at multiple conferences and published articles on the topic of employment legal issues.

Kayo G. Sady, Ph.D., is an Industrial/Organizational psychologist and Consultant at DCI Consulting Group where his practice centers on employee selection and compensation equity evaluation. Kayo's primary areas of expertise are employee selection measures, validation strategies, compensation practices, and quantitative methods in the equal employment context. Kayo received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology with a concentration in data analysis from the University of Houston. Prior to joining DCI Consulting Group, Kayo worked at Valtera Corporation (now CEB Valtera) as a Consultant in the Assessment and Selection Group. At Valtera, Kayo managed validation projects employing criterion-, content-, and construct-validation strategies and advised clients based on completed HR risk management