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Human Resource Management Practice Test: Workforce Diversity, Equal Employment Opportunity, and Affirmative Action
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Human Resource Management Practice Test: Workforce Diversity, Equal Employment Opportunity, and Affirmative Action
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1. Which act codified the concepts of business necessity and job related?
2. Which act prohibits an employer from paying an employee of one gender less money than an employee of the opposite gender where the jobs require equal skills, effort, and responsibility and are performed under similar working conditions?
3. Comparable worth is best defined as ________.
4. Elway Tire Company is a large manufacturing firm based in Texas. The highly diverse workforce at Elway requires the HR managers to ensure that all employment practices comply with local, state, and federal laws. Elway is expanding its operations and has recently hired 400 new technicians, of whom 300 were white and 100 were Hispanic. There were 1,500 qualified applicants for the jobs, of whom 1,000 were white and 500 were Hispanic. The HR manager needs to determine if adverse impact exists. Which of the following is a true statement given the facts provided?
5. The burden of proving the necessity for a BFOQ rests entirely on the ________.
6. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act applies to employers with ________ or more employees.
7. Which executive order (EO) made it the policy of the government to provide equal opportunity in federal government for all qualified persons?
8. In the landmark decision involving ________, the Supreme Court unanimously decided that an employee who was linked to a coworker who made a discrimination charge should also be protected from workplace retaliation.
9. The primary purpose of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act is to ________.
10. The Age Discrimination Act is administered by the ________.
11. Which of the following agencies is responsible for enforcing Title VII?
12. Which of the following was stipulated by Executive Order 11246?
13. Tom is a pilot for Southwest Airlines. According to court rulings, at what age must Tom retire from his job as a commercial pilot?
14. You are a human resource manager with a large manufacturing firm. Yesterday, you heard one of your recruiters ask a female applicant the following question: 'Where does your husband work?' Would this be an employment standard to avoid? If this is an employment standard to avoid, what law or court decision is it based on?
15. Which Executive Order amended EO 11246 and changed the word creed to religion and added sex discrimination to the other prohibited items?
16. The Veterans Opportunity to Work Act (VOW) of 2011 makes it ________.
17. Denise, an accounts manager for a restaurant chain, has filed a discrimination charge with the EEOC. What is the most likely next step in the EEOC process?
18. According to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, employers may not discriminate based on ________.
19. When dealing with the national origin provision of the Civil Rights Act, IRCA reduces coverage from fifteen employees to ________.
20. Which Supreme Court decision upheld that any test used in the selection process must be validated if it is found its use has had an adverse impact on women and minorities?
21. Elway Tire Company is a large manufacturing firm based in Texas. The highly diverse workforce at Elway requires the HR managers to ensure that all employment practices comply with local, state, and federal laws. Elway is expanding its operations and needs to hire 100 new technicians. Which of the following questions would most likely be appropriate to ask a female job candidate during an interview?
22. Under the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, anyone unlawfully present in the United States for 180 days, but less than one year will be subject to a ________-year ban for admission to the United States.
23. Which of the following is NOT true about the Age Discrimination in Employment Act?
24. What was the first sexual harassment case to reach the U.S. Supreme Court?
25. Adverse impact is determined through application of ________.