Chapter 3

Question 1

What are the three components of diversity training?

Answer 1

1) legal awareness
2) cultural awareness
3) sensitivity training

Question 2

What is phased retirement?

Answer 2

Approach that enables employees to gradually reduce their workload and pay level

Question 3

What is nepotism?

Answer 3

Favoritism.

Practice of allowing relatives to work for the same employer.

Question 4

(T/F) There are federal laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation

Answer 4

False. Federal Court cases and the EEOC have ruled that sex discrimination applies to a person’s gender at birth.

Question 5

What is pay equity? What is another name for it?

Answer 5

The idea that pay for jobs requiring comparable levels of knowledge, skill, and ability should be similar, even if actual duties differ significantly.
Comparable worth

Question 6

What does the civil rights act of 1991 require?

Answer 6

That employers show that an employment practice is job related for the position and consistent with BUSINESS NECESSITY

Question 7

Title VII protects which characteristics?

Answer 7

Race
Religion
Sex
Disability
National Origin