BUAD309 Chapter 2

TF- Diversity management refers to being unbiased by overlooking the differences between individuals in an organization.

F

TF- Federal law in the United States prohibits discrimination against employees based on sexual orientation.

F

TF- Flexible work schedules and telecommuting hamper efforts to increase diversity within organizations

F

TF- The U.S. Bureau of the Census does not allow for classification of individuals by race.

F

TF- The less complex a job in terms of information-processing demands, the more general intelligence and verbal abilities will be necessary to perform successfully.

F

TF- There is a strong correlation between intelligence and job satisfaction.

F

TF- Using mental-ability tests for promotion leads to unfavorable outcomes for racial and ethnic groups and hampers efforts toward diversity management

F

TF-Recent U.S. legislation has instituted mandatory retirement at 70 in order to ensure that jobs are available for younger workers.

F

refers to an overall factor of intelligence as suggested by the positive correlations among specific intellectual ability dimensions

General mental ability

refers to the ability to exert force against external objects

Static strength

TF- Hispanics can be of any race.

T

TF- In general, older employees have lower rates of avoidable absence than do younger employees. However, they have equal rates of unavoidable absence, such as sickness absences.

T

TF-Denying overseas assignments to certain deserving employees over others is a form of exclusion, a kind of workplace discrimination.

T

The ________ is the most widely used intelligence test in hiring decisions and takes only twelve minutes to be completed

Wonderlic Cognitive Ability Test

a kind of physical ability which refers to the ability to make rapid, repeated flexing movements

dynamic flexibility

the ability to exert muscular force repeatedly or continuously over time

dynamic strength

The ability to move the trunk and back muscles as far as possible is known as

extent flexibility

whats an HR manager?

human resources

a kind if discrimination in work environments

mockery

inductive reasoning

the ability to identify a local sequence and then using this logical sequins to solve problem

the ability to exert muscular strength using the abdominal muscles

trunk strength

deductive reasoning

using logic and assessing the implications of an argument to make a decision