MGT 315 HW'S

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

100

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

Ramon feels that he has been discriminated against by his employer. He 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

________ is the tendency to rely too heavily on one trait or piece of information when making decisions.

Anchoring

Which of the following agencies is responsible for investigating and resolving discrimination complaints, gathering information, and issuing guidelines?

Equal Employee Opportunity Commission

Motivation has a ________ effect on job performance.

strong positive

Although it is not easily communicated, ________ knowledge could very well be the most important aspect of what we learn in organizations.

tacit

Deep-level diversity has positive effects on team creativity when

team members are instructed to take the perspective of their teammates.

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

Task conflict

Which of the following answer options is not an example of a decision-making bias?

consensus

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

Gautam is the manager at a restaurant and offers to promote Marcy, a hostess at the same restaurant, in return for sexual favors. This is an example of

quid pro quo harassment.

Kate's firm does marketing research studies for film production companies, and this week they showed carefully selected test audiences a soon-to-be released blockbuster called Love, Explosions, and Laughter. Afterward, they presented participants with a series of questions, including one that asked them to rate their favorite movie of all time. Production company executives were thrilled to see that viewers rated Love, Explosions, and Laughter higher than such classics as Citizen Kane and The Wizard of Oz, but most likely the reason for this was a decision-making bias known as

recency

The tendency for people to see their environment only as it affects them and as it is consistent with their expectations is known as

selective perception

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 dean of the college of arts and sciences held a mixer last night, but was dismayed to see that rather than mixing, the students tended to split off into groups by major: arts and humanities students there, students majoring in the natural sciences there, and social-science majors over there. This is an example of ________ in action.

social identity theory

Valentin, a Latino, and Thomas, a Caucasian, both experienced machinists, apply for two openings at CascadeWorks, Inc. Thomas is hired and CascadeWorks continues to look for candidates to fill the other position. Valentin alleges racial discrimination by CascadeWorks, but CascadeWorks denies this. Which of the following statements would both negate Valenin's case and support CascadeWorks's case?

CascadeWorks deals in building equipment that requires a level 2 machinist and Valentin is not a level 2 machinist.

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 amendments is called the equal protection clause?

Fourteenth Amendment

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

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

________ results from members feeling less accountable for team outcomes relative to independent work resulting in individually identifiable outcomes.

Social loafing

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

Surface-level

________ is when we attribute our failures to external factors and our successes to internal factors.

The self-serving bias

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.

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

The notion that decision makers simply do not have the ability or resources to process all available information and alternatives to make an optimal decision is known as

bounded rationality

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

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

A restaurant in mid-town New York City has instituted a policy to hire individuals living in close proximity to the restaurant to reduce instances of employees coming in late. As the area surrounding the hotel is predominantly populated with individuals of Caucasian origin, the Hispanic and African-American communities became underrepresented in the restaurant'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

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

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

Rebecca has a "hot firefighter calendar" hanging in her office and often comments to Donny that she would like to see him in this calendar. This is an example of which form of sexual harassment?

hostile working environment

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.

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

intrinsic

Research shows that the differences between experts and novices are almost always a function of

learning

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

People with a performance-avoid orientation focus on demonstrating their competence so that

others will not think poorly of them

McKenzie has been asked to compare the current workforce of ABC Co. with that of the available labor supply. She creates a spreadsheet with the columns "Race," "Ethnicity," and "Gender." She is doing a ________ analysis.

utilization