Exam 3: Implementing Equal Employment Opportunity

In the case of City of Philadelphia v.Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission,the court restricted the employment of youth supervisors to persons of the same sex as those being supervised.This decision is based on which of the following concepts?

Zinc Systems Inc.wants to develop an effective affirmative action plan to eliminate employee discrimination within the organization.What steps should the company take?

In the context of the Civil Rights Act,the most frequent accommodation issue under Title VII's religious discrimination provisions arises from the conflict between:

In the context of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)determining whether or not discrimination against a protected group exists in an organization,the relevant labor market is taken to be the geographic region from which the organization recruits potential employees.

In an employment discrimination case,the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)will attempt to conciliate an agreement between a charging party and the employer if the EEOC's investigation finds reasonable cause that discrimination has occurred.

When business necessity is established,an employer can exclude all persons who do not meet specifications regardless of whether the specifications have an adverse impact on a protected group.

Occupational parity is a(n):

A qualification to file the Employer Information Report,EEO-1,is that a firm should:

What does the comparable worth theory argue?

Individuals who are diagnosed as HIV-positive but have not developed symptoms of the condition are not considered to be disabled.

Which of the following is true regarding the comparable worth theory?

Which of the following questions is to be avoided in a preemployment inquiry?

When the proportion of minorities and women employed by an organization equals the proportion in the organization's relevant labor market,the situation is known as ____.

Explain the term employment parity.

Occupational parity refers to the situation in which fewer minorities or females are present in a particular job category than would reasonably be expected when compared to their presence in the relevant labor market.

An affirmative action plan seeks to remedy:

A(n)____ is a written document outlining specific goals and timetables for remedying past discriminatory practices within organizations.

An employer may also be responsible for the acts of nonemployees,with respect to sexual harassment of employees in the workplace,where the employer (or its agents or supervisory employees)knows or should have known of the conduct and fails to take immediate and appropriate corrective action.

Concentration refers to the situation in which the proportion of minorities and women employed by an organization equals the proportion in the organization's relevant labor market.

Which of the following is NOT an employer's responsibility regarding sexual harassment?