Management Chapter 4 Practice Questions

_______ are the statistical measurements of populations and their qualities (such as age, race, gender, or income) over time.

Demographics

Diversity refers to age, gender, and religion, but does not include personality.

False

Female entrepreneurs looking for funding for their start-ups have an easier time than their male counterparts in obtaining venture capital due to gender bias on the part of investors.

False

Perception is the process of becoming consciously aware of something or someone.

False

The four stages of stereotype formation, in order, are categorization, expectations, inferences, and maintenance.

False

________ are the generation that currently makes up the largest number of individuals in America.

Gen Zers

Assimilation and denial are options for action to address diversity issues in an organization; however, they are not among the preferred options.

True

Ethnocentrism is based on the feeling that our cultural rules and norms are superior to or more appropriate than the rules and norms of another culture.

True

In the self-serving bias, employees attribute their success to controllable internal factors and their failures to uncontrollable external factors.

True

Perception is influenced by three key components: the characteristics of the perceiver, of the target, and of the situation.

True

The term glass ceiling identifies an invisible but absolute barrier that prevents women from advancing to higher-level positions.

True

When making attributions about a worker's performance, people can assign responsibility to either internal or external factors.

True

What form of diversity management is an organization adopting when it assumes that all diverse people will learn to fit in or become like the dominant group?

assimilation

Harold Kelley hypothesized that people make causal attributions by observing

consensus, distinctiveness, and consistency.

Rosario and Pamela work together. They are also friends outside of work. Rosario and Pamela are constantly texting each other. Their supervisor comments that, while this might be fine outside of work, it's inappropriate to constantly text each other in the office. This is an example of

context of interaction.

If a person views a situation as having high consensus, high distinctiveness, and low consistency, he or she is likely to make an attribution of

external causes.

The organizational dimensions of diversity include all of the following except

income.

Manuel works for ABC Corporation. He feels quite comfortable expressing his opinions about a wide variety of issues facing the company without fear of reprisal. This reflects ABC's

psychological safety.

Stage 1 of social perception is

selective attention/comprehension.

With only five years left until his planned retirement, Edward was quite upset when he was removed from a project team comprised mostly of Millennials. It is quite possible that the Millennials were reacting to a __________ of older workers.

stereotype