Deck 10: Social Responsibility: Legal Issues, Managing Diversity, and Career Challenges

Question 1

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination based on which of the following?

A) age
B) disability
C) religion
D) veteran status
E) All of the answer choices are correct.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The establishment stage of an employee's career involves ________.

A) pursuing the type of education and training an employee needs
B) finding employment, achieving more responsibility, and financial success
C) a self-assessment of interests, values, and preferences
D) being perceived as someone with many years of experience

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which of the following statements is false in the context of diversity programs?

A) Diversity programs have a large effect on changing behavior.
B) Managers should be used as trainers in diversity training.
C) The content of diversity training should include cases and exercises.
D) None of the above-each of the above statements is true.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

The ________ refers to a barrier to advancement for women and minorities.

A) adverse effect
B) funnel effect
C) glass ceiling
D) discrimination effect

Question 5

Which of the following causes overseas assignments to fail?

A) including an employee's family in orientation programs
B) high tolerance of ambiguity
C) asking employees to self-manage the repatriation process
D) developing technical skills over cross-cultural preparation

Question 6

Legal action against a company may likely NOT be incurred when ________.

A) employees incur injuries during training conducted by the company
B) employees incur injuries or damages in training conducted by a vendor or consultant
C) the company uses small amounts of copyrighted material
D) decisions about training and development opportunities are made on the basis of age

Question 7

In the ________ stage, individuals are concerned with keeping their skills up to date and being perceived as someone who is still contributing to the company.

A) exploration
B) decline
C) establishment
D) maintenance

Question 8

An expatriate is an employee ________.

A) who participates in succession planning
B) who has been headhunted from a firm to join another company
C) who works in a country other than his or her country of origin
D) working for a multinational company in his home country

Question 9

________ involves changing one's major work activity after having been established in a specific field.

A) Job repositioning
B) Job novelty
C) Career recycling
D) Telecommuting

Question 10

________ refers to employees changing jobs, usually between companies, every two to three years.

A) Job hopping
B) Job rotation
C) Job migration
D) Job skipping

Question 11

________ refers to an expatriate's familiarity with job tasks and work environment in the host country.

A) Cross-cultural experience
B) Cultural novelty
C) Job novelty
D) Cultural facility

Question 12

Which of the following is not a standard in the context of the fair use doctrine?

A) the purpose for which the copyrighted material is being used
B) the proportion of the copyrighted material being used
C) how much money the copyright owner can lose as a result of the use
D) None of the above-each is a standard.

Question 13

Which of the following is true of virtual expatriates?

A) They expose the family to the culture shock of an overseas move.
B) They are more expensive than traditional expatriates.
C) They lack a strong personal relationship with local employees.
D) They have no interactions with the home office.

Question 14

The ________ Act is designed to assist states in building school-to-work systems that prepare students for high-skill, high-wage jobs.

A) School-to-Work Opportunities
B) Workforce Innovation and Opportunity
C) Workforce Investment
D) Sector Partnership

Question 15

The cornerstone of the ________ system is One-Stop service delivery, which unifies numerous training, education, and employment programs into a single system in each community.

A) workforce investment
B) school-to-work opportunities
C) dual-career-path
D) social security

Question 16

Which of the following is true of repatriation?

A) Employees are guaranteed a higher standard of living.
B) Employees may leave the company if their assignments upon returning home have less responsibility.
C) Expatriates tend to experience little or no stress.
D) Adjustment tends to be fairly easy.

Question 17

In the ________ stage, individuals are largely concerned with achieving more responsibility and financial success.

A) exploration
B) decline
C) establishment
D) maintenance

Question 18

Which of the following is true of job hopping?

A) Job hopping makes it difficult for a company to downsize if necessary.
B) Job hopping makes it difficult to sustain continuity in employee-customer relationships.
C) Job hopping reduces a company's opportunity to hire employees with a variety of experiences.
D) Hiring employees who job hop decreases the company's flexibility and adaptability.

Question 19

________ refer to employees who have an assignment to manage an operation abroad without being located in that country.

A) Virtual expatriates
B) Inpatriates
C) Offshore employees
D) Intrapreneurial employees

Question 20

Which of the following is not a career stage discussed in the text?

A) exploration
B) establishment
C) acceptance
D) decline

Question 21

Sector partnerships typically focus on jobs that require four-year college degrees in STEM majors.

Question 22

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) does not provide protection for individuals under the age of 40.

Question 23

In most circumstances, organizations are not required to pay employees for attending training.

Question 24

Copyrights protect the ideas that materials contain.

Question 25

________ involves employees transitioning from full-time employment to full-time retirement by working part-time.

A) Compressed retirement
B) Early retirement
C) Phased retirement
D) Golden parachute retirement

Question 26

Federal laws require that companies in the gaming industry train employees to report suspicious activity.

Question 27

Injuries incurred by employees during training cannot result in legal action.

Question 28

The Fair Use Act of 2017 specifies that training material on internet sites is free from copyright law as long as a company or trainer does not generate income from the use of said content.

Question 29

The ________ Act makes it easier for veterans to find employment when they return from service.

A) Workforce Investment
B) Age Discrimination in Employment
C) Equal Employment Opportunity
D) Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment

Question 30

Employers are required to make accommodations for those with disabilities, even when such individuals do not request them.

Question 31

________ refers to giving employees the option of choosing when to work during the workday or workweek.

A) Telecommuting
B) Compressed workweek
C) Job autonomy
D) Flextime

Question 32

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) provides protection for all individuals based on age.

Question 33

________ refers to having two employees divide hours, responsibilities, and benefits of a full-time job.

A) Job rotation
B) Job sharing
C) Job enlargement
D) Job shadowing

Question 34

Which of the following is true of early retirement programs?

A) They should be an integral part of a strategy to lay off employees.
B) Eligibility is usually based on age and years of service.
C) These programs should be informal.
D) These programs are often involuntary.

Question 35

Which of the following relates to employees making a transition into life without work?

A) retirement
B) retrenchment
C) retreatment
D) recycling

Question 36

Through sector partnerships, workforce skill needs can be met faster than if individual employers worked alone.

Question 37

________ is a way to reduce head count and lower labor costs.

A) Offering an early retirement plan
B) Encouraging flextime
C) Job hopping
D) Compressing the workweek

Question 38

If training is voluntary and outside of regular work hours but directly related to an employee's job, the employee would need to be paid for attending training.

Question 39

Sector partnerships are designed to help individuals recycle their careers.

Question 40

Which of the following statements is most true regarding dual career paths?

A) They were designed to enhance work-life balance for working families.
B) They were designed to help chart future employment prospects for individual contributors.
C) They were designed to meet the needs of Millennials.
D) There were designed to help with early retirement.

Question 41

Repatriation is the process of preparing individuals for expatriate assignments.

Question 42

Individuals must wait until the age of 65 to begin receiving social security benefits.

Question 43

Job hopping is prevalent in high-technology industries.

Question 44

Preretirement socialization helps employees avoid being forced to return to work because of poor financial planning.

Question 45

The use of phased retirement plans is complicated by regulations regarding taxation of retirement benefits.

Question 46

The glass ceiling facilitates women and minorities to higher levels of the organization.

Question 47

The individual contributor career path is used to develop individuals with strong technical expertise who wish to advance in an organization through a non-management path.

Question 48

Unconscious biases are social stereotypes about certain groups of people that individuals form outside their own conscious awareness. These biases stem from one's tendency to organize social worlds by categorizing.

Question 49

Career recycling is limited to older employees nearing retirement.

Question 50

Phased retirement is becoming less popular than it once was.

Question 51

Current estimates indicate that women hold only 30% of the highest executive positions.

Question 52

Companies can deduct the cost of training as a business expense.

Question 53

It is important for companies to place more emphasis on developing potential expatriates' technical skills than on preparing them to work in other cultures.

Question 54

The primary aims of unconscious bias training are demonstrating that individuals are typically free from biases unconsciously, and that biases are the result of conscious actions resulting from social pressures.

Question 55

Expatriates and their families are likely to experience high levels of stress when they return from foreign assignments.

Question 56

List six training-related situations that may result in legal action.

Question 57

Research shows that diversity training has the largest effect on understanding and awareness of diversity, but smaller effects on behavior change and attitudes.

Question 58

The individual contributor career path is used to develop individuals with strong managerial potential.

Question 59

Millennials and Gen Xers are more used to change and job insecurity than Baby Boomers.

Question 60

Virtual expatriates are more expensive than traditional expatriates.

Question 61

What is the purpose of unconscious bias training? Provide an example of how unconscious bias training can affect who gets to attend training or is asked to participate in development activities.

Question 62

Describe what is meant by a dual career path and the characteristics associated with these paths.

Question 63

Discuss the advantages and challenges of job hopping from the employer's and the employee's perspectives

Question 64

Describe what companies can do to prepare employees for layoffs and to reduce their potential negative effects.