Deck 13: Supervising Minorities-Respecting Individual and Cultural Differences

Question 1

William H. Parker referred to the security of the "womb" of the police society as the

A) Shell of Majorityism
B) Shell of Minorityism
C) Shell of the WASP
D) None of the above

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Discrimination institutionalized by law is

A) De facto
B) De jure
C) Quid pro quo
D) None of the above

Answer 2

B

Question 3

WASP is an acronym for

A) White and solely protestant
B) Women against stereotypes and prejudice
C) White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
D) None of the above

Answer 3

C

Question 4

According to Johns and Saks (2014), "prejudgment" is

A) Normal human behavior
B) Against the law
C) Abnormal human behavior
D) Acceptable in some societies

Question 5

_____________ describes the natural tendency of human beings to view their own culture as superior and to judge others based on those standards.

A) Prejudice
B) Stereotype
C) Ethnocentrism
D) Xenophobia

Question 6

_____________ describes irrational fear of foreigners.

A) Prejudice
B) Stereotype
C) Ethnocentrism
D) Xenophobia

Question 7

Sexual harassment is prohibited by the

A) Civil Rights Act of 1964
B) Quid Pro Quo Act
C) Protected Class Act
D) Equal Treatment Under the Law Act

Question 8

According to the text, officers with a college education tend to experience _____________ than less educated officers.

A) More stress
B) Greater enthusiasm
C) Higher morale
D) Less absenteeism

Question 9

_____________ substitutes self-supervision for traditional organizational control mechanisms.

A) Authority
B) Autonomy
C) Empowerment
D) Isolation

Question 10

According to the text, physical agility tests have always discriminated against

A) Hispanics
B) Asians
C) Women
D) Men

Question 11

When minorities feel discriminated against, they turn to law enforcement even if members of their group are not represented because they feel that law enforcement is unbiased.

Question 12

Discrimination based on sex used to be a problem in our society but no longer is.

Question 13

EEOC is an acronym for Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Question 14

According to the text, the written examinations that most police departments used to screen prospective personnel had a built-in cultural bias that discriminated against racial minorities.

Question 15

Today, all police departments still use the comprehensive written test to select personnel.

Question 16

According to the text, there is no such thing as reverse discrimination.

Question 17

According to the text, growing three times faster than the U.S. total, blacks may account for one-quarter of the nation's growth over the next 20 years.

Question 18

No-win situations are the heart of the empowerment process.

Question 19

Empathetic supervisors can quickly subvert an otherwise effective antiharassment policy.

Question 20

The supervisor's primary responsibility is to make sure that there is no type of discrimination going on in the working environment.