Diversity in Fire Service

Paper Summary:

This paper presents an examination of the impact of diversity on rire service in the United States. The writer explores several Supreme Court decisions, federal mandates and measurement tools to further illustrate the topic. Issues regarding diversity in hiring practices are also explored. The author notes that fire services managers need to be careful to legitimately encourage diversity in the workforce while at the same time practice hiring that maintains the safety of the team by only hiring members capable of performing the job.

Introduction:
Supreme Court Assistance
Diversity
Productivity
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"Productivity in the fire rescue services is an important element of existence for several reasons. Because the service is dependant upon public dollars for its budget needs it is important to be able to track productivity and to show increases or decreases so that the budget committees can properly allocate funds to maintain the service.
Productivity can show an increase by sending out more trucks on each call, conversely it can show a decrease in numbers if fewer responders are sent to the initial call and back up is called for later if it is deemed necessary by the first response team.
Other factors that can impact productivity measurement are changes int eh area being serviced. Productivity measurement often takes into account things such as risk factors. If the area finds ways to reduce the risk factors of fire or rescue need then the productivity numbers are going to be reduced.
If the risk factors in an area are significantly increased the productivity numbers are also going to increase. "

Sample of Sources Used:

• Age discrimination act(Accessed 06-14-06) http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/adea.html
• Age Discrimination(Accessed 06-14-06) http://www.eeoc.gov/types/age.html
• An Act (Accessed 06-14-06) http://www.eeoc.gov/abouteeoc/35th/thelaw/pregnancy_discrimination-1978.html
• Disability Discrimination(Accessed 06-14-06) http://www.eeoc.gov/types/ada.html
• No. 81-554(Accessed 06-14-06) http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=460&invol=226

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