Mngt. 450 Ch. 3 Quiz

Department store BigTen refused to hire Max because of his religion. The store is in violation of ________.

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

A BFOQ is a(n) ________.

characteristic that is essential to the performance of a specific job

A company fails to do a background check that would have revealed that a person it has hired has the potential to harm others. The employee then physically harms a customer during a disagreement. The company could be found guilty of ________.

negligent hiring

Employment-at-will is an employment relationship which ________.

allows either the employee or employer to terminate the employment at any time

Which of the following is true for affirmative action plans? a. An affirmative action plan should not be remedial in nature. b. An affirmative action plan does not need to be formalized. c. An affirmative action plan should exclude all non-minorities. d. An affirmative action plan should be temporary.

d. An affirmative action plan should be temporary.

Which of the following is true of a "closed shop"? a. Employees must give up union membership once employed. b. Employees need not remain union members after they are hired. c. Employers encourage unions to form. d. Only union workers are employed.

d. Only union workers are employed.

A manager only hires Hispanic women as secretaries. This is an example of ________.

disparate treatment

Comparing the percentage of applicants hired from different subgroups to determine if they are significantly different from each other is an example of a ________.

flow statistic

If a company makes promises to a recruit that it does not intend to keep, it could be found guilty of ________.

fraudulent recruitment

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 protects people ________.

40 years of age or older