MGT 315 EXAM 2 PRACTICE QUESTIONS

The Occupational Safety and Health Act requires employers to keep records of deaths, injuries, and illnesses if the employers have _____ or more full-time or part-time employees.

11

Which of the following amendments is called the equal protection clause?

14th amendment

Individuals who feel they have been discriminated against must file a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) or a similar state agency within _____ days of the incident.

180

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 prohibits discrimination against employees over the age of

40

Which of the following is not an example of a schema?

Assuming two or more things are different because they share similar qualities

Which of the following agencies is responsible for enforcing Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act?

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

___________ is the phenomenon occurring when members of a team exert less effort when working on team tasks than they would if they worked alone on those same tasks.

social loafing

Motivation has a _____ effect on job performance.

strong positive

_____ diversity refers to diversity regarding observable attributes such as race, ethnicity, sex, and age.

surface-level

_____ can be beneficial to teams if it stimulates conversations that result in the development and expression of new ideas.

task conflict

Deep-level diversity has positive effects on team creativity when

team members are instructed to take the perspective of their teammates

_____________ tasks depend on the abilities of the "weakest link."

conjunctive

Which of the following is considered a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act?

cosmetic disfigurement

Which of the following is the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs' most potent weapon and its last penalty?

debarment

One way to potentially prevent problems associated with too much cohesion is to formally institute the role of a(n) _____, a person who is responsible for evaluating and challenging prevailing points of view in a constructive manner and also bringing in fresh perspectives and ideas to the team.

devil's advocate

Sanjay is the manager at a restaurant and offers to promote Linda, a waitress at the same restaurant, in return for sexual favors. This is an example of

quid pro quo harassment

Greta is responsible for the organization and distribution of relief packages to nations affected by famine throughout the world. According to the job characteristics theory, Greta's job has a high degree of

significance

The EEOC analyzes EEO-1 reports to look for patterns of discrimination, especially in companies with a minimum of _____ employees.

100

Diversity can be both beneficial and harmful to team performance. Which of the following is one of the benefits typically attributed to diversity in teams?

Decreased conformity and groupthink

You're the manager of one branch of a chain of fitness centers. A few months ago, the regional manager told you to only hire attractive individuals under the age of 30 to work at your facility, in an effort to make the company's image more youthful and sexy. This type of discrimination is known as which of the following?

Disparate treatment

Which scenario depicts an employee who experiences a high level of meaningfulness?

Floyd walks around his pet rescue, patting his employees on the back and reminding them they are improving the lives of animals and people

Which of the following statements is true of disparate treatment and disparate impact?

For there to be discrimination under disparate treatment, there has to be intentional discrimination

Which of the following rules states that an employment test has disparate impact if the hiring rate for a minority group is less than 80 percent of the hiring rate for the majority group?

Four-fifths rule

Your boss wants you to prepare a few trucks for shipment in the next couple of hours, by loading boxes on them with a forklift. However, the forklift available to you is old, slow, and prone to breaking down. You're afraid that even if you try hard, your effort will not lead to adequate performance due to the faulty equipment. According to expectancy theory, your motivation will be low due to which of the following?

Low expectancy

Which of the following examples of work involves the core job characteristic of identity

Min-jun took 2 years to write a novel, from starting the first draft to getting it published

Which of the following states that it is illegal for an employer to refuse to hire an individual or otherwise discriminate against this individual with respect to compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin?

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Jason, an African-American, and Robert, a Caucasian, both experienced welders, apply for two openings at Virgo Inc. Robert is hired and Virgo continues to look for candidates to fill the other position. Jason alleges racial discrimination by Virgo, but Virgo denies this. Which of the following statements would both negate Jason's case and support Virgo's case?

Virgo deals in building equipment that requires a certified welder and Jason is not a certified welder

Saturn Inc., a large manufacturing firm, is a male-dominated organization. Julia, who works for Saturn, interacts predominantly with male employees, who frequently make sexist remarks. This is an example of

a hostile working environment

According to the Civil Rights Act of 1991, once the plaintiff has made a prima facie disparate impact case, the

burden of proof shifts to the defendant

At Bark Shape industries, each employee has a workspace in which to debark logs used to make rustic homes and patio furniture. The policy is that everyone on a team must remain at his or her workstation until everyone has secured the logs they were working on. At the end of the shift, everyone on team C is ready to go home, but they are waiting on Felipe, who still has not secured his logs. Exceeding the time allocated in a shift hurts the production rating of a team. Team C is witnessing a(n) _____ task.

conjunctive

A hotel in Florida has instituted a policy to hire individuals living in close proximity to the hotel premises to reduce instances of employees coming in late. As the area surrounding the hotel is predominantly populated with individuals of Hispanic origin, the Caucasian and African-American communities became underrepresented in the hotel's workforce. This is an example of

disparate impact

Executive Order 11246, signed by President Lyndon Johnson, required all federal contractors and subcontractors to

engage in affirmative action programs to hire and promote minorities

Brandy has been given a great deal of opportunity to advance her career. She recently got a huge increase in authority and salary, and she was hired to do what she has always claimed was her dream job. However, Brandy is not enthusiastic about coming to work, and when she is there, she spends most of her time complaining about how Maurice got a bigger office and nicer furniture than she did. Brandy's behavior would seem to support _____ theory.

equity

The main provision of the Occupational Safety and Health Act states that each employer should furnish each employee a place of employment free from recognized hazards that cause or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm. This is referred to as the

general duty clause

Jamie owns a small sporting goods store. He has decided to aggressively pursue a policy to make sure employees feel a sense of equity in his store. What result is Jamie most likely going to see as a result of his push for equity?

greater commitment from his employees

John F. Kennedy's decision to go forward with the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, NASA's decision to launch the space shuttle Challenger in unusually cold weather, and Enron's board of directors' decisions to ignore illegal accounting practices are famous examples of

groupthink

Motivation that is felt when task performance serves as its own reward is _____ motivation.

instrinsic

Blake is determined to finish a building project for Mr. Hicks before the deadline. Blake is certain that if he successfully performs this building project, Mr. Hicks will hire him as a permanent builder for his expanding condominium business. Blake's belief demonstrates

instrumentality

Rocco has been asked to set some effective goals for the workers in his sales department. Rocco wants to get the best performance out of his team that he can, because he is being evaluated on how well they do. How should Rocco go about determining the goals for his team?

make the goals very specific, stating exactly how many sales he wants and when he wants them

Nominal group technique decreases social loafing and production blocking—problems with brainstorming—by

making people write down ideas on their own

In a _____ case, the defendant acknowledges that some discrimination may have occurred but argues that the same hiring decision would have been reached even ignoring the discrimination.

mixed-motive

The dimensions of psychological empowerment include all of these except

needs (does include: meaningfulness, self-determination, competence, impact)

Charles is an accountant at a large firm. His boss has instituted a plan designed to create high levels of task interdependence. Which of the following is an example of a trade-off resulting from this plan?

the team will be less able to adapt to new situations

Sarah has been asked to compare the current workforce of her company with that of the available labor supply. She creates a spreadsheet with the columns "Race," "Ethnicity," and "Gender." She is doing a _____ analysis.

utilization