Chapter 5
White Swan Motors' practice of hiring only applicants recommended by its employees has been found to have an adverse impact on nonwhite applicants. White Swan plans to implement a voluntary affirmative action plan. Which of the following would be an effective practice under the voluntary affirmative action plan?
Eliminating unvalidated recruitment practices and selection criteria
involves comparing the percentage of minorities and the percentage of women employed in each job category to the availability of minorities and/or women for these job categories.
Job group analysis
Laketown System Corp., a federal contractor, chooses not to comply with the affirmative action plan established to increase the representation of women and minorities within its workplace. Which of the following is an implication of noncompliance?
Laketown System Corp. can be debarred from further participation in government contracts for noncompliance.
In an effort to combat the glass ceiling, a corporate management compliance evaluation is
designed to determine whether employees are encountering artificial barriers to advancement to mid- and senior-level corporate management
In order for an affirmative action program to meet the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Program (OFCCP) requirements, federal contractors must:
develop and implement internal auditing systems that periodically measure the effectiveness of the company's affirmative action plans.
Voluntary affirmative action plans are acceptable if they
do not unnecessarily trammel the rights of employees who belong to the majority or create an absolute bar to their advancement.
reflects the percentage of women and/or minorities to be hired to correct underrepresentation, based on availability in the geographic area.
A placement goal
refers to the intentional inclusion of women and minorities in the workplace based on a finding of their previous exclusion and/or to address existing discrimination
Affirmative action
The Apex Community Hospital has contracts with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide health care for veterans. The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) found that the hospital misrepresented the results of its affirmative action plan. Which of the following actions is the secretary of labor most likely to take against the Apex Community Hospital?
Ask the Department of Justice to initiate criminal proceedings against the hospital
Which of the following is an example of micro-aggression by a majority member against the minority in the workplace?
Avoiding eye contact with minority or female employees
Affirmative action obligations arise in the workplace through:
Executive Order 11246.
Affirmative action is designed to remedy past discrimination based on race or gender through punishment
FALSE
Availability of women and minorities for a particular job is based on their mere presence in a given geographic area.
FALSE
Placement goals must be treated as a ceiling or floor for employing certain groups
FALSE
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs' enforcement contains provisions for private lawsuits by employees and even penalties for noncompliance by a contractor.
FALSE
The quantitative part of an affirmative action plan sets out a course of action for how to address any underrepresentation, underutilization, or other problems found in a federal contractor's workplace.
FALSE
Veteran affirmative action contains provisions that require a veteran to be hired as a federal contractor irrespective of his or her qualifications.
FALSE
Which of the following is an effective way to promote diversity within a workplace?
Institute formal procedures to handle complaints from diverse employees
The United College of Arts (UCA) has become aware of the underrepresentation of Native Americans in its workforce. It has shortlisted a number of steps to increase the percentage of Native Americans in its workforce. Which of the following steps, if adopted, ensures maximum results
Recruiting at community events near or on Native American reservations and from colleges located nearby
Nurses at the City Safe Hospital must successfully pass a professionally developed and validated test to be promoted in their jobs. Recently, the hospital discovered that African-American and Hispanic nurses taking the test scored significantly lower than white nurses, and none qualified for promotion. Therefore, based on
Ricci v. DeStefano, the City Safe Hospital should use the test scores in making promotions to avoid discrimination against white nurses.
Actions such as not giving minority or female employees credit for ideas they propose but accepting those ideas when they come from someone in the majority constitutes micro-aggression.
TRUE
As an effort to value diversity at a workplace, employers should tie performance reviews of managers to their measurable support for diversity and inclusion
TRUE
The first forerunner to Executive Order 11246 applied only to defense contracts
TRUE
Under Executive Order 11246, federal contractors must agree not to discriminate in hiring on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, or national origin.
TRUE
Under affirmative action, an applicant need not simply be a female or a minority to be placed in a job.
TRUE
The _____ Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery in 1865
Thirteenth
Green Oval Electronics employs approximately 2,700 employees. During a recent workforce survey, it was found that 97 percent of the company's managers are white, although only 62 percent of the company's entire workforce is white. The company decided to implement a voluntary affirmative action plan that would reserve 25 percent of the openings in a managerial development program for blacks and other minorities, only until the percentage of minority employees working as supervisors was representative of the percentage of available minorities in the local labor force. Which of the following holds true in this scenario?
This affirmative action plan is legal because it is temporary and does not unnecessarily infringe on the rights of white employees.
Which of the following groups has made the most gains under affirmative action?
White women
Which of the following statements is true of affirmative action?
Workplace productivity and efficiency do not suffer under affirmative action plans
Reverse discrimination is:
a claim brought by a majority member who feels he or she has been adversely affected by the use of an affirmative action plan
Affirmative action is used only when there is:
a demonstrated underrepresentation of women and minorities in the workplace
In Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, the U.S. Supreme Court held that:
affirmative action can be used to further the educational goal of a diverse student body.
One of the commonly held myths about affirmative action is that it is:
an entitlement program that provides unqualified women or minorities with jobs
Riverhill University, on conducting a self-audit, identifies a racial imbalance in its workforce where 85 percent of its department chairs and deans are white men. The university voluntarily institutes a short-term plan that mandates that future selections for department chairs and deans will be on a one-for-one basis until an appropriate ratio is achieved. Paul, a white male professor from the same university, applies for the position of a dean and gets rejected. He subsequently discovers that an equally qualified black female is selected for the position. In this scenario, Paul:
does not have a valid claim because temporary plans to eliminate existing imbalances are permitted based on the United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO v. Weber case.
Valuing diversity is a concept that:
encourages employees to accept and appreciate those who are different from the majority and value their contributions to the workplace.
The comprehensive set of changes brought about by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) to its regulations in 2000 were designed to:
focus its resources on the action undertaken to promote equal employment opportunity, rather than on the technical compliance
Employment research findings show that
in the suburbs, equally qualified blacks are hired about 40 percent less than whites because of negative assumptions.
Employer-instituted quotas are:
not required by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 or by Executive Order 11246.
In the Local 28, Sheet Metal Workers v. EEOC case, the court
ordered the union to participate in an affirmative action plan designed to increase its African-American and Hispanic membership.
Derek, an employee at Ferns Tech Inc., has filed a lawsuit against his employer. He claims that after the introduction of an affirmative action plan at the workplace, his employer has mostly been promoting female employees at work, even if they are less qualified for the job than he is. This may be an example of
reverse discrimination
According to employment research findings, _____.
there is little correlation between what African-American and white workers score on employment tests and how they perform in the workplace
Judicial affirmative action is imposed by the courts when
there is workplace discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and an affirmative action plan is the appropriate means of redress.
The number of women employees at ThinkOne Systems Inc. is significantly lower than what statistics indicate about the availability of qualified women employees in the relevant labor pool. This is referred to as
underutilization
Executive Order 11246 requires all federal contractors:
with 50 or more employees and a nonconstruction contract of $50,000 or more to develop a written affirmative action plan.
