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81) What is the most likely problem with asking applicants about their hobbies and club memberships?

A) This is too familiar a question to be appropriate in a job interview.

B) Information may be given that indicates the applicant’s race, sex, or religion.

C) The information could be used for commercial purposes by those with data access.

D) Such questions tend to encourage reverse discrimination and adverse impact on minorities.

Case 3.1

You have been hired as HR Director of a company with about 100 employees. As you begin to learn about the company, you discover that female managers are paid about 20% less than their male counterparts. When you ask why, the CEO explains that men have families to support and women are earning extra income. As you review personnel files, it becomes apparent that protected-class employees are promoted less often and have longer terms between promotions and raises than white employees. A test is used as part of the promotion process, and protected-class candidates always do about 25% worse on it than white candidates. Another test is used to screen job applicants. It screens out about 25% of white male applicants and about 50% of protected-class applicants.

 

The firm has a hazardous products division. Traditionally, women are not hired or promoted into that division because the CEO is concerned that the toxic nature of the production process will adversely affect the female employees’ reproductive processes.

 

82) Refer to Case 3.1. As the HR Director, you are meeting with the CEO to discuss manager compensation. You should most likely advise the CEO that:

A) the company is in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

B) the firm faces legal liability for violations of the Equal Pay Act of 1963.

C) the OFCCP is probably monitoring the firm’s lack of compliance and will soon be filing a lawsuit.

D) what the company is doing isn’t right, but it is legal since it started before the passage of relevant legislation.

 

83) Refer to Case 3.1. As HR Director, you would most likely inform the CEO that the firm’s current promotion test is:

A) causing disparate treatment.

B) violating the Equal Pay Act.

C) violating BFOQ guidelines.

D) causing an adverse impact.

 

84) Refer to Case 3.1. For your company’s recruiting test to pass the four-fifths rule, about ________ of employees would need to pass it.

A) 40%

B) 50%

C) 60%

D) 75%

85) Refer to Case 3.1. As HR Director, you should most likely inform the CEO that the company policy prohibiting women from working in the hazardous waste products division is:

A) a wise company policy to limit potential liability from women filing suit over birth defects.

B) well-meaning but illegal due to the 1978 amendment to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

C) illegal according to the Supreme Court decision of Griggs vs. Duke Power.

D) creating an adverse impact on women employees.

 

Case 3.2

You have recently been hired as the HR Director of a mid-sized architectural service company that designs buildings for both private firms and federal agencies. Your predecessor lost her job when she did not anticipate and handle an HR-based lawsuit to the CEO’s satisfaction. The CEO believes that HRM should help the company avoid problems. As HR Director, you have three primary tasks: to anticipate future problems, advise management, and be an advocate for employees. Your boss doesn’t see a conflict in these roles.

 

The upper-management team consists of all males who are over the age of 50. Most of the upper-level managers have been with the company for at least 25 years. Middle managers, who are mostly in their 30s, are 40% female, and 3% minority. Hourly employees are 60% minority and 35% female. The communities from which the firm hires hourly employees is approximately 75% minority and consists primarily of Haitians and Hispanics.

 

You discover many incomplete employee recruitment records that lack I-9 forms. You immediately begin to work on an affirmative action plan because of what you see happening in the company.

 

86) Refer to Case 3.2. Based on your utilization study of the company, which of the following EEO-related problems does the firm most likely have?

A) Minorities are significantly underrepresented in management.

B) Women are significantly underrepresented in middle management.

C) The firm’s hourly workforce does not reflect the labor pool population.

D) You are probably in violation of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act.

87) Refer to Case 3.2. Which of the following would most likely check the firm for compliance with EEO regulations?

A) EEOC

B) DOJ

C) OFCCP

D) OSHA

 

88) Refer to Case 3.2. Which of the following is most likely true about this firm?

A) A quid pro quo sexual harassment case could be made against the firm.

B) The firm is in compliance with the Immigration Reform and Control Act.

C) A prima facie case for discrimination could be made using the four-fifths rule.

D) The firm is guilty of reverse discrimination.

 

Case 3.3

Tyra has been the head of HR at SPI for 20 years. During her time there, she has instituted an internal EEO complaint resolution process and a no-tolerance policy for sexual harassment.

 

Many SPI employees are Asian immigrants, but there are half a dozen countries represented within the company. Such diversity benefits the firm because many of the firm’s product manuals are translated into foreign languages.

 

Due to an increase in product demand, SPI needs to hire many new employees. Tyra has received 70 applications for positions in the production department. She hires 60% of the white applicants and 25% of the African-Americans applicants.

 

89) Refer to Case 3.3. Ellie, a production assistant at SPI, has been sexually harassed by a male manager. What should be Ellie’s first course of action?

A) File a complaint with the EEOC.

B) Report the harassment to HR and begin the internal complaint resolution process.

C) Hire an attorney and file a complaint with OSHA.

D) Speak with other employees who may have been harassed.

90) Refer to Case 3.3. An applicant for a type-setting job at SPI does not meet the minimum qualifications and has a visual impairment that calls for special lighting in order for her see at a functional level. Which of the following adjustments should SPI make in order to serve the applicant?

A) The necessary lighting should be made available once the applicant receives the job.

B) The necessary lighting needs to be made available once the applicant requests it.

C) No adjustment needs to be made because the applicant is not qualified for the position.

D) No adjustment needs to be made because the applicant is not legally disabled.

 

91) Refer to Case 3.3. Which of the following is an appropriate question for Tyra to ask an applicant?

A) What language do you speak at home?

B) Do you speak or write in another language fluently?

C) How did you learn to read or write in a foreign language?

D) What language do you feel most comfortable with?

 

 

 

 

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