Ch8 Recognizing And Respecting The Rights Verified Test Bank

Chapter 8: Recognizing and Respecting the Rights of All

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Multiple Choice/Fill in the Blank

1. To achieve a greater degree of diversity in the workplace, managers’ goals should encompass which of the following?

A. ethics

B. sustainability

C. inclusion

D. accommodation

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Understand

AACSB: Diversity

1. Which of the following are factors included when applying a legal definition of diversity? (Select all that apply.)

A. social status

B. religious beliefs

C. gender

D. physical abilities

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Understand

AACSB: Analytical

1. If a person has a disability (i.e., a physical or mental impairment) that reduces participation in “a major life activity,” such as work, an employer is obliged to provide ________.

A. compassion

B. reasonable accommodations

C. sympathy

D. selective training

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Understand

AACSB: Diversity

1. Title VII of the CRA, which governs nondiscrimination, mandates four tenets that all employers should follow. Which of the following is not one of the tenets?

A. undue hardship

B. nondiscrimination

C. nonharassment

D. reasonable accommodation

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Evaluate

AACSB: Diversity

1. Which company denied a teenage girl a job because she did not conform to the company’s “Look Policy” when she wore a hijab (headscarf) to the job interview?

A. Google

B. Abercrombie & Fitch

C. Facebook

D. Hollister

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Remember

AACSB: Real-world

1. Which of the following best describes income inequality?

A. The disparity in income among people with children

B. The imbalance in the distribution of income among people within an economy

C. On average, women are paid approximately 80 percent of what men are paid.

D. There is a gender wage gap in the United States between men and women.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Understand

AACSB: Ethics

1. According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), gender inequality is strongly associated with which of the following?

A. income inequality

B. religious beliefs

C. race

D. ethics

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Evaluate

AACSB: Real-world

1. Which of the following pay discrimination laws is the strongest such law in the United States, allowing victims of discrimination to seek redress for up to six years of underpayment and tripling monetary damages for a prevailing plaintiff?

A. Pew Research Center Equal Pay Act

B. New Jersey Equal Pay Act

C. Diane B. Allen Equal Pay Act

D. WEF Equals Pay Act

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Evaluate

AACSB: Analytical

1. Enacted in 1966, which of the following laws is the most important U.S. law forbidding cruelty to animals in laboratory settings?

A. Animal Welfare Act

B. Animal Rights Act

C. Humane Slaughter Act

D. American Welfare Institute Act

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Remember

AACSB: Ethics

1. The entitlement of nonhuman animals to ethical treatment is referred to as ________.

A. modern social movement

B. pet protection laws

C. HSUS

D. animal rights

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Understand

AACSB: Ethics

1. Which of the following is not an ethical consideration relating to agribusiness?

A. responsible use of natural resources

B. consumer need and preference

C. responsible animal husbandry

D. safe food production

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Understand

AACSB: Ethics

1. Which breed accounts for 96 percent of all dogs used in testing?

A. bulldog

B. chihuahua

C. labrador retriever

D. beagle

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Remember

AACSB: Ethics

1. Which of the following best describes a diversity dividend?

A. the financial benefit of improved performance resulting from a diverse workforce

B. a difficulty or expense to the firm significant enough that reasonable accommodation may not be required

C. the unequal distribution of income among the participants of an economy

D. a change or adjustment to a job or other aspect of the work environment

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Analyze

AACSB: Analytical

1. A diverse workforce yields many positive outcomes for a company. Which of the following are well-documented outcomes? (Select all that apply.)

A. extensive pool of talent

B. decline in performance

C. increased earnings

D. positive customer experiences

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Evaluate

AACSB: Ethics

1. Which of the following describe alternatives to animal testing for cancer drugs?

A. They exist and are not any more expensive than animal testing.

B. They currently do not exist.

C. They exist but are prohibitively expensive.

D. They exist and are cheaper than animal testing.

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Evaluate

AACSB: Analytical

1. Which country has the most significant regulatory oversight of animal testing?

A. United Kingdom

B. Japan

C. United States

D. Switzerland

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Remember

AACSB: Real-world

1. The Nonhuman Rights Project in Florida hired attorneys to present a theory in court to argue that two ________ have the legal standing to be freed from cages to live in an outdoor sanctuary.

A. beagles

B. chimpanzees

C. dogs

D. cats

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Remember

AACSB: Real-world

1. Experts predict that to meet the food needs of the world’s population, we will need to ________ food production over the next fifty years.

A. double

B. triple

C. quadruple

D. decrease

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Evaluate

AACSB: Real-world

1. Agribusiness is a large global industry that provides us which of the following?

A. the world’s raw materials’ supply chain

B. sustainability of the food industry

C. the food we eat

D. safe food production

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Understand

AACSB: Application

1. The animal movement started in the late nineteenth century when which organization was formed?

A. Humane Society of the United States

B. American Welfare Institute

C. Animal Welfare Act

D. American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Remember

AACSB: Ethics

1. According to multiple studies, including those by the American Association of University Women and the Pew Research Center, on average, women are paid approximately which percent of what men are paid?

A. 80

B. 100

C. 90

D. 70

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Remember

AACSB: Ethics

1. Businesses can best help workers move to, or stay in, the middle class by doing which of the following?

A. providing better benefits

B. raising their own minimum wage

C. hiring more full-time workers

D. increasing bonuses

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Evaluate

AACSB: Real-world

1. Only one-quarter of 1 percent of all U.S. households have moved up from the middle- to the upper-income bracket since 2000, while twelve times that many have slid to the lower-income bracket. This is indicative of what?

A. dwindling lower class

B. growing middle class

C. stagnant lower class

D. shrinking middle class

Difficulty: Difficult

Blooms: Analyze

AACSB: Analytical

1. Which act, passed in 1990, stipulates that a person has a disability if he or she has a physical or mental impairment that reduces participation in “a major life activity,” such as work?

A. Americans with Disabilities Act

B. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act

C. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

D. Rehabilitation Act

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Remember

AACSB: Ethics

1. Which is the primary law prohibiting religious discrimination in the private sector workplace?

A. Title VII

B. administrative law

C. U.S. Constitution

D. state law

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Understand

AACSB: Ethics

True/False

1. True or false? Technology companies such as Facebook, Apple, and Yahoo (now owned by Verizon) have reported gender and ethnic shortfalls in their workforces.

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Remember

AACSB: Real-world

1. True or false? The law requires that an employee disclose having a particular “disability” or needing a particular “reasonable accommodation” under the Americans for Disabilities Act when requesting some type of assistance.

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Understand

AACSB: Application

1. True or false? Cases of workplace discrimination can be based on cultural heritage or religion.

Difficulty: Difficult

Blooms: Understand

AACSB: Ethics

1. True or false? As of January 2018, Texas is one of twenty states that prohibits sexual orientation discrimination in private and public workplaces.

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Remember

AACSB: Ethics

1. True or false? The gap in earnings between the affluent upper class in the United States and the rest of the nation continues to grow every year.

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Analyze

AACSB: Analytical

1. True or false? Data from the International Monetary Fund indicate the U.S. middle class is growing larger and an increasing percentage of households have moved up from the middle to the upper income.

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Understand

AACSB: Reflection

1. True or false? All states in the United States have some form of laws to protect animals.

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Remember

AACSB: Real-world

1. True or false? To achieve a high level of sustainability in the world’s food supply chain, a cost-benefit analysis of ethics in the food industry should include recognition of concerns of all stakeholders.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Understand

AACSB: Real-world

1. True or false? For consumer product testing, which is controversial, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act requires that animal tests be conducted to demonstrate the safety of cosmetics.

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Evaluate

AACSB: Application

Short Answer

1. Explain some benefits of employee diversity in the workplace.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Understand

AACSB: Diversity

1. Distinguish between diversity and inclusion.

Difficulty: Easy

Blooms: Evaluate

AACSB: Diversity

1. How have various workplace diversity initiatives and/or regulations changed workplace demographics? Provide evidence to support your answer.

Difficulty: Difficult

Blooms: Analyze

AACSB: Analytical

1. Using Google as an example of the technology sector, discuss the progress, or lack thereof, in achieving a more diverse workforce.

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Evaluate

AACSB: Real-world

1. What is the “diversity dividend”?

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: apply

AACSB: Diversity, Application

1. Discuss federally mandated protections for workers with disabilities.

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Understand

AACSB: Analytical, Diversity

1. What protections for workers exist in terms of religious freedom?

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Understand

AACSB: Analytical, Diversity

1. Why does protection for LGTBQ workers require a particularly high level of managerial ethics?

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Evaluate

AACSB: Diversity, Ethics

1. Why should business leaders be concerned about income inequality?

Difficulty: Difficult

Blooms: Analyze

AACSB: Analytical, Real-world

1. Discuss the interrelationship between ethics and sustainability as it relates to the food industry.

Difficulty: Moderate

Blooms: Understand

AACSB: Reflection

1. Is the United States a leader or a follower in the area of animal rights as it relates to cosmetic testing?

Difficulty: Difficult

Blooms: Evaluate

AACSB: Ethics, Reflection

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