Deck 16: Representative Bureaucracy and Employment Equity

Question 1

Which of the following laid out the legal basis for affirmative action programs that eventually led to the establishment of the Canadian Human Rights Commission?

A)the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
B)the Canadian Human Rights Act
C)the Employment Equity Act
D)the Public Service Employment Act

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Who has the authority to set the criteria for all non-advertised appointment processes in their departments?

A)ministers
B)deputy heads
C)senior policy analysts
D)human resources managers

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Employment equity means something completely different than affirmative action.

Answer 3

False
They are quite similar in meaning.

Question 4

What is another name for the Abella Commission?

A)the Royal Commission on Government Organization
B)the Royal Commission on the Status of Women
C)the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism
D)the Royal Commission on Equality in Employment

Question 5

The Public Service Commission is ultimately accountable to Parliament for the overall integrity of appointments to the public service.

Question 6

Which statement accurately describes the representation of Francophones in the public service?

A)If we look at the entire number of people working in all institutions that are subject to the Official Languages Act, Francophones rank lower than their representation in the general population.
B)Their presence in each occupational category, aside from the Operational group, is below their representation in the population of Canada.
C)During the Post-confederation period before 1918, Francophones were numerically well represented in the public service.
D)The Royal Commission on Government Organization (Glassco Commission) reported that Francophones were well represented in the public service in 1963.

Question 7

Departments and agencies are required to run employment equity programs to promote representativeness and fairness in the public service.

Question 8

Increased representation has effects that are not covered by the theory of representative bureaucracy.

Question 9

As of 2015, which of the following groups make up the lowest percentage of workforce availability?

A)women
B)members of a visible minority group
C)persons with a disability
D)aboriginal peoples

Question 10

Which of the following fall under the employment equity program?

A)seniors
B)Francophones
C)members of the LGBT community
D)aboriginal peoples

Question 11

In addition to the Public Service Commission, which other federal agency has also played a leading role in developing, monitoring, and implementing employment equity?

A)Privy Council office
B)Treasury Board Secretariat
C)Department of Finance
D)Prime Minister's Office

Question 12

Visible minorities are the only designated group that has been historically over-represented in the federal public service.

Question 13

What is another term for "Equal pay for work of equal value"?

A)Employment Equity
B)Affirmative Action
C)Public Sector Equitable Compensation Act
D)Pay Equity

Question 14

Which province does NOT have any pay equity law or framework?

A)Ontario
B)Alberta
C)Prince Edward Island
D)Manitoba

Question 15

Which category encompasses most of the low-paid and low-skilled positions?

A)administrative support
B)operational
C)executives
D)administrative and foreign service

Question 16

Which of the following groups require more representation at the executive level?

A)visible minorities
B)disabled persons
C)aboriginal peoples
D)women

Question 17

More than 40 percent of Aboriginal public servants work in just three organizations.Which of the following is NOT one of the three organizations?

A)Aboriginal Affairs Canada
B)Correctional Service Canada
C)Heritage Canada
D)Employment and Social Development Canada

Question 18

The values arising from socialization are not reflected whatsoever in the behaviour of public servants or their recommendations and decisions.

Question 19

Which group is over-represented in the Administrative Support Category?

A)disabled persons
B)visible minorities
C)Anglophones
D)women

Question 20

Which section stipulates that preferential treatment for groups that have historically been disadvantaged does not constitute reverse discrimination?

A)Section 1!
B)Section 7!
C)Section 15!
D)Section 25!

Question 21

Pay Equity stands for " equal pay for equal work."

Question 22

Bargaining units will be accountable for achieving equitable compensation for their members by demonstrating that they were actively engaged in pursuing that objective in the collecting bargaining process.

Question 23

Pay equity programs try to devise a job evaluation method that removes sex biases from job classifications.

Question 24

Among the four designated groups, visible minorities are still consistently slightly under-represented in the Executive group.