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Course Business Ethics

Test Chapter 11 Quiz: Job Discrimination (75 points)
Started 6/12/17 12:57 PM
Submitted 6/12/17 1:11 PM
Due Date 6/19/17 9:00 AM
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Attempt 75 out of 75 points
Score
Time 14 minutes
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Instructions
This quiz is open book and it has no time limit. There are 15
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 Question 1
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Which of the following statements is accurate?

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Answer: The law treats sexual harassment as a form of sexual
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Answer: The law treats sexual harassment as a form of sexual
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 Question 2
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Over the last two decades, how many sexual-harassment claims have
emerged?
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Answer: over 12,000
annually.
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Correct
Answer: over 12,000
annually.
 Question 3
5 out of 5 points
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
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Answer: racial discrimination against young African-
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 Question 4
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The 1984 Supreme Court decision in Memphis Firefighters v. Stotts

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affirmative action.
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Answer: upheld seniority over
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 Question 5
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Opponents of comparable worth insist which one of these ideas support

their position?
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Answer: Most women have freely chosen the lower paying
occupations.
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Answer: Most women have freely chosen the lower paying
occupations.
 Question 6
5 out of 5 points
Which of the following is true based on documented evidence of

discrimination?
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Answer: Relatively few women and minorities have made it to the
very top of their professions.
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Answer: Relatively few women and minorities have made it to the
very top of their professions.
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What do affirmative action programs involve?
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Answer: Firms are expected to survey current female and minority
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 Question 8
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According to Shaw and Barry, companies clearly have what kind of

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 Question 9
5 out of 5 points
Sexual comments that one woman appreciates might distress another

women. Who decides when such behavior is inappropriate?
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Answer: The person to whom the comments
are directed.
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Answer: The person to whom the comments
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 Question 10
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Advocates of "comparable worth"

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Answer: want women to be paid as much as men for jobs involving
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Answer: want women to be paid as much as men for jobs involving
equivalent skill, effort, and responsibility.
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 Question 12
5 out of 5 points
What should a female employee do if she encounters sexual harassment?
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Answer: She should try to document it by keeping a record of what
has occurred, who was involved, and when it happened.
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Answer: She should try to document it by keeping a record of what
has occurred, who was involved, and when it happened.
 Question 13
5 out of 5 points
One message that sexual harassment conveys is that managers view

women as
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In 1987, the Supreme Court affirmed, in the case of Johnson v.

Transportation Agency, that
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Answer: considerations of sex are permissible as one factor in
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 Question 15
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Of these four arguments, which of the following is the most plausible

argument FOR affirmative action?
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Answer: It is necessary to break the cycle that keeps minorities and
women locked into low-paying, low-prestige jobs.
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Answer: It is necessary to break the cycle that keeps minorities and
women locked into low-paying, low-prestige jobs
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Course Business Ethics

Which of the following statements is accurate?

The 1984 Supreme Court decision in Memphis Firefighters v. Stotts

Answer: upheld seniority over

Opponents of comparable worth insist which one of these ideas support

Which of the following is true based on documented evidence of

employment by department and job classification.

Answer: Firms are expected to survey current female and minority

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?

Sexual comments that one woman appreciates might distress another

Answer: the bottom

Advocates of "comparable worth"

equivalent skill, effort, and responsibility.

What should a female employee do if she encounters sexual harassment?

One message that sexual harassment conveys is that managers view

In 1987, the Supreme Court affirmed, in the case of Johnson v.

deciding whom to promote.

Of these four arguments, which of the following is the most plausible

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