Lecture 9

Question 1

involves basic activities such as recruiting, training, promoting, and utilizing to full advantage for individuals with different backgrounds beliefs, capabilities, and cultures

Answer 1

diversity management

Question 2

Special efforts to recruit and hire qualified members of groups that have been discriminated against in the past

Answer 2

Affirmative action

Question 3

submission to or rejection of sexual conduct is used as a basis for employment decisions

Answer 3

Quid pro quo harassment

Question 4

occurs when unwelcome sexual conduct has the effect of unreasonably interfering with job performance or creating an intimidating or hostile, work environment.

Answer 4

Hostile environment

Question 5

Conduct of a sexual nature that has negative consequences for employment

Answer 5

sexual harassment

Question 6

_________are the largest unemployed minority in the United States.

Answer 6

people with disabilities

Question 7

An organization that has a low degree of structural integration—employing few women, minorities, or other groups that differ from the majority—and thus has a highly homogeneous employee population

Answer 7

monolithic organization

Question 8

An organization that has a relatively diverse employee population and makes an effort to involve employees from different gender, racial, or cultural backgrounds

Answer 8

pluralistic organization

Question 9

An organization that values cultural diversity and seeks to utilize and encourage it

Answer 9

multicultural orgnazation

Question 10

Parent-company nationals who are sent to work at a foreign subsidiary

Answer 10

expatriates

Question 11

Foreign nationals brought in to work at the parent company

Answer 11

inpatriates

Question 12

Individuals from the country where an overseas subsidiary is located

Answer 12

host country nationals

Question 13

Individuals from a country other than the home country or the host country of an overseas subsidiary

Answer 13

third country nationals

Question 14

The tendency to judge others by the standards of one’s group or culture, which are seen as superior

Answer 14

ethnocentrism

Question 15

The disorientation and stress associated with being in a foreign environment

Answer 15

culture shock

Question 16

The value dimension referring to how openly a society or culture accepts or does not accept differences between people in hierarchies in the workplace, in politics (high e.g., Japan, Mexico)

Answer 16

power distance

Question 17

The value dimension referring to people’s tendency to take care of themselves and their immediate circle of family and friends, perhaps at the expense of the overall society (high e.g., U.S.)

Answer 17

individualism

Question 18

The value dimension referring to how a society views traits that are considered feminine or masculine (high e.g., Latin America)

Answer 18

masculinity

Question 19

The value dimension referring to how much uncertainty a society or culture is willing to accept (high e.g., France)

Answer 19

uncertainty avoidance UA

Question 20

The value dimension referring to whether a culture has a long-term or short-term orientation (high e.g., China)

Answer 20

long term orientation

Question 21

having a third party dictates a resolution regarding a contractual dispute where the decision is legally binding

Answer 21

arbitration