CH 15 Quiz

A  Preferences are discriminatory.

B  Pre-employment testing eliminates discrimination.

C  Preferences only help white males.

D  Members of minority groups are often inferior workers.

A  State and local governments.

B  All educational institutions.

C  Labor unions with 15 or more members.

D  The federal government.

A  Governmental interventions.

B  Organizational commitment.

C  Training and Development.

D  Employment practices.

A  Examining one’s social conditioning only reinforces one’s prejudices

B  Men are more likely to be prejudiced than are women.

C  One cannot completely eliminate deeply held prejudices.

D  Being sensitive to differences between individuals indicates lingering prejudice.

A  Part-time projects

B  Placing them as mentees in their organizations

C  Phased retirement

D  Phased retraining

A  Are breaking federal laws.

B  Are only trying to protect the majority of heterosexual workers, who would rather not work with gays or lesbians

C  Cause those employees to be more isolated and less productive.

D  Engage in a legal form of age discrimination, since homosexual employees are likely to be younger than heterosexual employees are.

A  Discrimination

B  Prejudice

C  Stereotype

D  Gentrification

A  Gentrification

B  Discrimination

C  Prejudice

D  Stereotype

A  Valuing diversity by appreciating individual uniqueness and differences.

B  Excluding people whose race, gender, or culture differs significantly from that of the organizations’ managers.

C  Ignoring civil rights laws.

D  Continuing past strategies of assimilating people with differences.

A  secondary

B  quad

C  primary

D  tertiary