Deck 12: Personnel Management Labor Relations

Question 1

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is that part of the legislation that prohibits

A) age discrimination in employment.
B) discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, and national origin.
C) pregnancy discrimination.
D) discrimination against those with physical disabilities.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

The goals of Syracuse University's Minnowbrook Conference were to meet the challenges and opportunities in labor-management relations.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The primary goal of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was corporate social responsibility.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln declared that African Americans held in slavery would be set free.

Question 5

The policy of "don't ask, don't tell" was:

A) Created by President Clinton.
B) Was repealed by President Obama.
C) A and b
D) Neither.

Question 6

Civil War Amendments to the Constitution that attempted to settle the issue of slavery and civil rights were the _________________________Amendments.

A) Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth
B) Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth
C) Twentieth, Twenty-First, Twenty-Second
D) Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth

Question 7

Father Mike Murphy wants to hire a young man to clean and wax the church floors, of St. Mary's Catholic Church, including the altar and sacristy, but requires that hiree be a Catholic. Father Murphy is invoking the policy and practice of (BFOQ). This is

A) a good faith exception to EEO provisions.
B) giving special preferences to minority hiring.
C) about having the bureaucracy represent the social mix of society at large.
D) allowing women and minorities access to high-paying jobs.

Question 8

The election of a Black President (Barack Obama) and other ethnic minorities and women to high public office positions, has now made the issue of inequality in the nation moot.

Question 9

When a black man in the old South was not permitted to drink from a water fountain labeled "whites" this "separate but equal doctrine was upheld by this Supreme Court decision:

A) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas
B) Dred Scott v. Sanford
C) Plessy v. Ferguson
D) Gratz v. Bollinger

Question 10

While the ideal of EEO is an employment system devoid of both intentional and unintentional discrimination, achieving this ideal may be a political impossibility because of definition-one person's EEO may be another's institutional racism or sexism.

Question 11

The sexual harassment prohibitions of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 were extended to include notions of "abusive" and "hostile" workplaces by Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, 1986.

Question 12

The comprehensive law banning discrimination against individuals with physical or mental disabilities in employment, transportation, telecommunications, and public accommodations is the

A) Civil Rights Act of 1964
B) Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973
C) Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978
D) None of the above

Question 13

Nonracial discrimination includes

A) Sexual discrimination, and sexual orientation discrimination.
B) pregnancy and disabilities discrimination.
C) age discrimination.
D) All of the above.

Question 14

The first time the term "affirmative action" was mentioned officially was in President Jimmy Carter's Executive Order 10925.

Question 15

Laws on miscegenation (that prevented interracial marriage) were declared unconstitutional in Loving v. Virginia in 1967.

Question 16

Your classmate, a history buff, tells you that a Congressman who was bigoted against equal rights for women was the very person who added the word "sex" to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, hoping to make the law sound ridiculous and cause its defeat.

A) Your classmate is mistaken.
B) Your classmate is bigoted.
C) Your classmate is correct.
D) None of the above

Question 17

Which of the following is NOT prohibited under the provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and its amendments?

A) discrimination on the basis of educational status
B) discrimination on the basis of national origin
C) discrimination on the basis of color
D) discrimination on the basis of sex

Question 18

Sexual harassment as a form of sex discrimination, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does NOT yet,

A) Include quid pro quo harassment
B) Pedophilia
C) Include hostile environment harassment.
D) Exclude harassment of men by women.

Question 19

Social equity in the public sector is:

A) About the fairness in delivery of public services to all.
B) Egalitariansim in action.
C) About the right of each citizen to be given equal treatment.
D) A,b,c

Question 20

Your sister has successfully completed rehabilitation for drug abuse. She thinks she is protected in employment under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990. You say she is not:

A) You are correct.
B) She is correct.
C) She is only protected for physical impairments.
D) None of the above.

Question 21

Written or unwritten policy or practice that excludes employment to workers because of pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions is a prima facie ("at first sight") violation of TitleVII.

Question 22

"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is a policy about gays in the military was created in the administration of President Bill Clinton.

Question 23

The term "sex," as a protected category concerning discrimination, was included in the language of the Civil Rights Act by Congressman Howard "Judge" Smith.