At some time in your career, you may be different from others in your workplace. Which of the following is not a viable piece of advice

Which of the following is not a suggestion for managing demographic diversity?

a. Review recruitment practices.

b. Make managers accountable for diversity.

c. Institute affirmative action programs with quotas.

d. Build a culture of respect for diversity.

(c) Medium/Comprehension

92. Which of the following statements regarding the management of demographic diversity is INCORRECT?

a. Diversity training programs are most successful in those firms where there are explicit rewards for increasing company diversity.

b. Companies can support diversity by reviewing their employment advertising to ensure that diversity is being advocated at all job levels.

c. In the most successful companies, diversity is viewed as human resource management department’s responsibility.

d. Many people see affirmative action programming as a controversial way to manage diversity because it provides an unfair advantage to minority members.

(c) Difficult/Synthesis

93. Which of the following groups of programs is not viewed as being part of an overall affirmative action program?

a. broad-based recruitment

b. simple elimination of discrimination

c. preferential treatment

d. tie-breakers such that all things being equal preference is given to minority candidates

(a) Medium/Analysis

94. The affirmative action program about which the most negative perceptions are held is

a. simple elimination of discrimination.

b. tiebreakers.

c. preferential treatment.

d. targeted recruitment.

(c) Difficult/Evaluation

95. At some time in your career, you may be different from others in your workplace.  Which of the following is not a viable piece of advice to offer someone who is “different”?

a. Know your rights; you are protected from discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, sex, religion or national origin.

b. Choose a mentor who is similar to you and at your same level.

c. Build effective relationships; create opportunities to get to know others in the workplace.

d. Examine company resources; see if your firm offers networking opportunities or interest groups.

(b) Medium/Comprehension

96. The values, beliefs, and customs that exist in a society is

a. culture.

b. diversity.

c. power distance.

d. affirmative action.

(a) Easy/Knowledge

97. Which of the following is not one of Hofstede’s four dimensions that explain variation among cultures?

a. individualism/collectivism

b. introversion/extraversion

c. low uncertainty avoidance/high uncertainty avoidance

d. masculinity/femininity

(b) Medium/Knowledge

98. Collectivistic cultures are

a. cultures where people define themselves as individuals and form looser ties with their groups.

b. cultures that value achievement and competitiveness as well as acquisition of money and other material objects.

c. cultures where people have strong bonds to their groups and group membership forms a person’s self-identity.

d. cultures that value maintaining good relationships, caring for the weak and quality of life.

(c) Easy/Knowledge

99. Cultures that are comfortable in unpredictable situations and have high tolerance for ambiguity are

a. low uncertainty avoidance cultures.

b. collectivistic cultures.

c. high uncertainty avoidance cultures.

d. individualistic cultures.

(a) Medium/Comprehension

100. A culture that values maintaining good relationships, caring for the weak and quality of life is

a. a low power distance culture.

b. a masculine culture.

c. a high power distance culture.

d. a feminine culture.

(d) Easy/Comprehension

101. High power distance cultures

a. view an unequal distribution of power as relatively acceptable.

b. prefer predictable situations and have low tolerance for ambiguity.

c. emphasize caring for the weak and quality of life.

d. are comfortable in unpredictable situations and have high tolerance for ambiguity.

(a) Easy/Comprehension

102. A culture categorized by high uncertainty avoidance is

a. Denmark.

b. Jamaica.

c. Greece.

d. China.

(c) Medium/Comprehension