A corporate strategy for realizing equal employment opportunity

This paper examines the American corporation's societal environment and finds that an Equal Employment Index (EEI) can serve as a measurement tool to evaluate alternative hiring policies in light of corporate Equal Employment objectives. To help managers choose the “best” hiring policy, a manpower planning model is developed in conjunction with the EEI to solve for the employment policy that comes as close as possible, within manpower flow constraints, to realizing Equal Employment objectives. With this knowledge the manager executes the hiring policy he chooses. The resulting changes in the work force are then evaluated via the EEI and compared to the a priori outcome of the manpower planning model. The difference is used to guide and direct managerial behavior toward attainment of Equal Employment objectives.