Human Resource Management (HR Strategy) Test
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Civil Rights Act of 1964 Title VII - Disparate Treatment - ✔✔It shall be an unlawful
employment practice for an employer - To fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any
individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his
compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such
individual's race color, religion, sex, or national origin
Civil rights Act of 1964 Title VII - Adverse Impact - ✔✔It shall be unlawful
employment practice for an employer - to limit, segregate, or classify his employees or
applicants for employment in any way which would deprive or tend to deprive any
individual of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect his status as an
employee, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin
Prima Facie - ✔✔At first appearance
Requirements for Prima Facie - ✔✔Direct Discrimination - the applicant was not
selected, the applicant appeared qualified, others were hired for the position
Adverse Impact - 4/5th rule
4/5th Rule - ✔✔The selection rate for any protected group should be no less that
4/5ths or 80% of the selection rate for the group with the highest rate of selection
Selection Rate (SR) - ✔✔Number Hired / Number of Applicants
If SR1 *.8 > SR2 - ✔✔Adverse Impact
, Civil Rights Act of 1991 - ✔✔Followed Wards Cove Packing vs. Antonio (1989)
Prohibits "race norming" of tests
Plaintiffs can sue for punitive damages In case of intentional discrimination
Adverse impact prohibited for each piece of selection system
burden of proof on employer
Prohibits quotas in selection
Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures - ✔✔Job Relatedness &
business Necessity
Job Relatedness - ✔✔Judged on an individual basis
Sexual harassment - ✔✔Based on Title VII of Civil Rights Act
Defined by 1980 EEOC interpretation of the law
Two types of sexual harassment
Two Types of Harassment - ✔✔"Quid Pro Quo" & "Hostile Work Environment"
Quid Pro Quo - ✔✔submission to conduct is a term of employment or the basis for
employment decisions
Hostile work environment - ✔✔when the workplace is permeated with
discriminatory intimidation, ridicule, and insult, that is sufficiently severe or pervasive to
alter the conditions of the victim's employment and create an abusive working
environment. Title VII is violated Harris v. Forklift systems, Inc. > Intent is not a defense
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