WEEK 11 QUIZ – CHAPTER 11 QUIZ
Question 1
What should a female employee do if she encounters sexual harassment?
She must decide if she likes the attention. | ||
She should try to document it by keeping a record of what has occurred, who was involved, and when it happened. | ||
Keep it to herself and never tell a soul. | ||
Go on a talk show and tell her story. |
Question 2
To answer the question of who determines what is objectionable or offensive in sexual harassment, the courts use what kind of hypothetical person?
reasonable person | ||
hysterical person | ||
sensual person | ||
management person |
Question 3
One message that sexual harassment conveys is that managers view women as
assets. | ||
equals. | ||
high potentials. | ||
playthings. |
Question 4
Affirmative action, comparable worth, and sexual harassment are connected to
job performance. | ||
job discrimination. | ||
job analysis. | ||
job description. |
Question 5
When investigators sent equally qualified young white and black men—all of them articulate and conventionally dressed—to apply for entry-level jobs in Chicago and Washington, D.C., the results clearly showed
sexual discrimination against young African-American men. | ||
racial discrimination against young African-American men. | ||
sexual discrimination against young white men. | ||
racial discrimination against young white men. |
Question 6
Which of the following is an example of sexual harassment?
Unwelcome sexual offers a female employer gives to a male employee. | ||
A female employee hugging a co-worker when he announces his engagement. | ||
A manager enforcing a dress code for a work environment. | ||
An employee pinning up comic strips in an office cubicle. |
Question 7
Of these four arguments, which of the following is the most plausible argument AGAINST affirmative action?
Compensatory justice forbids affirmative action. | ||
Blacks and whites are already equal in socioeconomic terms. | ||
Affirmative action violates the rights of white men to equal treatment. | ||
Affirmative action is the same thing as fixed numerical quotas. |
Question 8
What do affirmative action programs involve?
Firms should prepare an oral equal-employment policy and an affirmative action commitment. | ||
Firms should appoint an administrative assistant to direct and implement their program and to publicize their policy and affirmative action commitment. | ||
Firms are expected to survey current female and minority employment by department and job classification. | ||
Whenever underrepresentation of females or minorities is evident, firms are to try a little harder. |
Question 9
Over the last two decades, how many sexual-harassment claims have emerged?
over 12,000 annually. | ||
over 25,000 annually. | ||
over 15,000 annually. | ||
over 50,000 annually. |
Question 10
Which of the following statements is accurate?
Men cannot be victims of sexual harassment. | ||
The Supreme Court has established a hard and fast line between permissible and impermissible affirmative action plans. | ||
The law treats sexual harassment as a form of sexual discrimination. | ||
Differences in levels and types of education explain why, on the average, men earn more than women. |
Question 11
According to Shaw and Barry, companies clearly have what kind of obligation to provide a work environment in which employees are free from sexual harassment?
legal | ||
moral | ||
environmental | ||
personal |
Question 12
The 1984 Supreme Court decision in Memphis Firefighters v. Stotts
treated sexual harassment as a form of discrimination. | ||
upheld seniority over affirmative action. | ||
upheld the legality of hiring quotas. | ||
upheld the legality of mandatory drug testing. |
Question 13
Sexual comments that one woman appreciates might distress another women. Who decides when such behavior is inappropriate?
The person to whom the comments are directed. | ||
The person accused of harassment. | ||
The hypothetical “reasonable person.” | ||
The common law as modified by legislation. |
Question 14
What quality is more important in predicting who gets fired than job-performance ratings or even prior disciplinary history?
race | ||
sexual orientation | ||
age | ||
gender |
Question 15
Advocates of “comparable worth”
say that all women do their job just as well as men. | ||
base their doctrine on the free-market determination of wages. | ||
believe it is necessary for getting rid of sexual harassment. | ||
want women to be paid as much as men for jobs involving equivalent skill, effort, and responsibility. |