unit 5

Which term represents an individual's visible characteristics, including, but not limited to, age, body size, visible disabilities, race, or sex?

Surface-level diversity

According to Professor Jay A. Conger, Professor at Canada's McGill University, the major forces for the next generation of leaders will be:

global competitiveness and diversity

________ discrimination is a catchall term that describes when people are denied employment opportunities because of their identity group or personal characteristics such as sex, race, age, or other factors.

Access

______ represents the degree to which employees are accepted and treated fairly by their organization.

Inclusion

In Wave 2 of the evolution of HR, it looks outside their organizations to customers, investors, and communities to define success—in the form of customer share, investor confidence, and community reputation.

False

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) of 1967 protects individuals who are 30 years of age or older from employment discrimination based on age.

False

Which term describes a stereotype that portrays Asian men and women as obedient and successful and is often used to justify socioeconomic disparities between other racial minority groups?

Model minority myth

When Suzanne wanted to learn about the law that protects individuals who are 40 years of age or older from employment discrimination based on age, she should read up on which of the following?

ADEA of 1967

All of the following would be considered a substitute for leadership EXCEPT:

low position power

Although HR is responsible for creating and facilitating the performance management processes, it is the ______ that need to strongly support the process and communicate the linkage of performance management to overall organizational goals and performance.

organizational managers

People born between 1946 and 1964 are classified as which of these?

Baby Boomers

According to Professor Conger of McGill University, a strategic opportunist is:

an organizational visionary

Compared to _____% in 1977, the labor force participation rate for men is now approximately ______% and is expected to decrease through 2024 to _____%.

59; 53; 52

Which of these refers to differences between team members in characteristics such as expertise, experiences, and perspectives?

Cognitive diversity

Which agency was created by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the primary goal of making it illegal to discriminate against someone in the workplace due to their race, national origin, sex, disability, religion, or pregnancy status?

EEOC

______ suggests that people use categorization to simplify and cope with large amounts of information. These categories allow us to quickly and easily compartmentalize data, and people are often categorized by their visible characteristics, such as race, sex, and age.

Social cognitive theory

According to the evolution of HR work, in _____, HR continues to be a partner to the business, but has also become a competitive practice for responding to external business conditions.

Wave 4

______ occurs when an employee or an applicant is treated unfairly at work or in the job hiring process due to an identity group, condition, or personal characteristic.

Workplace discrimination

Performance management began as a simple tool to drive _____ but has evolved more recently into a tool used for _____.

accountability; employee development

Human resources compliance is an area that traces back to the very origin of the human resources function—to

administrative and regulatory functions.

At BAC Toys, employees go through hiring and onboarding, to performance management and talent development, all the way through to transitions such as job change and promotion, to retirement and exit. This is called ______.

employee life cycle