Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures By Your Name The Supreme Court recently held that performance management is subject to the guidelines in the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedure (UGESP). The following is an essay analyzing and articulation past and current application of this requirement for discrimination in employment. The purpose The purpose of these Guidelines is to ensure equal opportunity for all, and to root out discrimination, discriminatory hiring, non-discriminatory performance management, and discriminatory firing on the grounds of race, color, gender, religion or national origin. These Guidelines help to provide consistency in the hiring procedures, and to avoid a selection process which adversely affect the equal employment opportunity for all. Griggs v. Duke Power Co Griggs v. Duke Power Co., (1971), 401 U.S. 424, is a case notable for employment discrimination, specifically in its analysis of the adverse impact theory. In that case, the court ruled that the businesss employment requirements had nothing to do with the applicants abilities and qualifications to perform the job for which he was applying. The court fount that, although the company had no intent to discriminate, the requirements were, nonetheless discriminated against African Americans. The facts were that in the 1950s,