ETH/125 Final Exam – Multiple Choice Name: _Katrina Winters___________________________ Please note: There are 56 questions. Each question is worth 2.5 points. 1. Which term is used to describe a group that is set apart from others primarily because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns? a. social group b. ethnic group c. racial group d. formal group 2. Members of a minority or subordinate group a. share physical or cultural characteristics that distinguish
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The Women Discrimination in Bangladesh Never Ending. “The judge said Rehana had not properly coped with the death of her husband. She was too young to take care of the children on her own” (Anam3). The sentence from the Golden age novel book above demonstrates the women injustice in the Bangladesh.First the judge said that Rehana is too you to taking care of the children but if she was allow to married, does it mean she ready to have a children and taking care of them? Second, because of her
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performance over longevity, and displaced some longtime managers. Compare and contrast the extent to which LeasePlan is using principles from affirmative action and managing diversity. Explain your rationale. Affirmative action is a good way to avoid discrimination in the workplace, however this method really hard to brought the maximal performance of the company like LeasePlan that dominated by women employee. The affirmative action mostly suitable to employees that don’t want to get out of the comfort
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employment d. weak sense of group solidarity 2. The Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that employers have the burden to prove laying off older workers is not based on age but __________. a. “some reasonable factor” b. “on age discrimination” c. “bias for younger workers” d. none of these 3. Which of the following is true about worker protections based on age? a. Firing workers because they are old violates federal law. b. Firing an older worker to replace
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Human Resources JDT2- Task 1 Sandra Emeott 4/18/2011 Introduction: Many would argue that one of the most influential pieces of legislation passed to date is the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VII of this act prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It is critical for managers and employees in organizations to have an understanding of equal employment opportunity (EEO) laws to ensure that both employees and managers are protected
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Disabilities Act are placed within our historic timeline to begin to the process of never having to repeat past wrongdoings. The Affirmative Action was introduced in the 1960s’ as a type of positive discrimination with the intention to combat “injustices caused by our nation's historic discrimination against people of color and women, and for leveling what has long been an uneven playing field” (American Civil Liberties Union, n.d.). Before this act was passed, ethnic minorities and women faced extreme
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same process as terminated and indicates to that (resignation or retirement) as a constructive discharge (Norton & Green, 2005, p. 137). Nowadays, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, many plaintiffs use that theory as a form of discrimination to establish lawsuit cases
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Differences That Work: Organizational Excellence through Diversity Edited with an Introduction by Mary C. Gentile Forward by R. Roosevelt Thomas Differences That Work: Organizational Excellence through Diversity is a collection of 16 articles from the Harvard Business Review. Many of the articles were written over 15 years ago, but their content is still relevant today. The book does not directly tell the reader how to manage diversity in the workplace, but presents situations that compel the
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another, usually in a way considered to be unfair. Prejudice is preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. Stereotyping is a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. Discrimination is the unjust or prejudicial
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Journals Ch. 1-4 Chapter 1 Pg. 8 Would you describe yourself as a multiracial, or do you see yourself as belonging to a single race? Why? I consider myself multiracial. I come from a Hispanic culture but after living in Miami for so many years, and being surrounded by such a cultural landscape I have also adopted into the American culture. I am also white. Pg. 12 Have you or any member of your family ever encountered a glass ceiling? Explain. Luckily no one in my family has encountered
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