Discussion Post Final

DUE BY 10PM (4 HOURS) will have peer discussion post response once this assignment is turned in. ALL DUE TODAY, FRIDAY!

Review the case study from last week’s Paper: Business Formation Assignment.

Shania Jackson is a mature Christian thinking of opening a Christian coffeehouse near Detroit, 

Michigan. Her husband, Marvin, is open to making a contribution of capital to the business, but 

he has no interest in participating in its day-to-day operations or management.

Shania’s sister, Kelsey, is a new Christian who has told Shania that she’s been looking for an 

excuse to get out of the house and would love to be a part of the business. Kelsey’s husband, a 

non-Christian, opposes his wife’s involvement and has told her that he wants her to remain a 

stay-at-home mom to their 2 children.

Shania’s neighbor, Carlos, is a non-Christian who has also expressed an interest in participating 

in the business as a way to earn extra income. Carlos thinks the “Christian thing” has potential 

with all the big churches in the area, including a Mormon temple and a large Kingdom Hall of 

Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Shania has considered organizing her business as a sole proprietorship, a partnership of some 

sort, a small corporation, or an LLC.

Part 1: Hiring

For this discussion thread, explain your analysis and conclusions on hiring Kelsey and Carlos as employees (not including them as partners or co-owners). Focus on the legal issues of including race, religion, and other protected classes in your hiring decisions. We already know Kelsey is a Christian and Carlos is not; assume Shania and Kelsey are Black while Carlos is Hispanic.

If your paper last week addressed these specific questions, you may use that section of your paper as the basis of your answer to Part 1 of this thread.

Part 2: Promotion

Now assume that Shania’s coffeehouse has become so successful that she has 20 employees and needs to promote someone to be the night shift supervisor. The employee base is quite diverse and Shania wants to include diversity in her promotion decision to demonstrate how inclusive her business is. Explore the legal, Biblical, and ethical issues if Shania makes her promotion decision entirely on that basis. What are her options?

INSTRUCTIONS:

The student will first post a thread of at least 600 words (content, not including references). For each thread and reply, analysis must be supported with a minimum of 2 scholarly sources other than the course textbook and provided materials. Each source must be cited in current APA format. Each thread and each reply must include both full citations in a reference list at the end of each post, and short-form in-text citations. Acceptable sources include books, legal and business journals, legal cases, the law (cases, statutes, regulations, etc.), the Bible, biblical commentary, etc. Dictionaries and other web  sources that lack scholarly support are not acceptable sources. Any sources cited must be current to the issue (e.g., Bible commentaries may by applicable from any age, but articles discussing current legal practices may no longer be relevant after 2 or 5 years). 

A well-developed, complete worldview analysis of the situation requires more than simply adding a Bible verse at the end of the post. Each thread and each reply must include at least 1 verse from Scripture, quoted and applied as an integral part of the discussion of the applicable issues in the context of a Biblical worldview.