Diversity - ANSWERS-Real or perceived differences among people in race, ethnicity, sex, age, physical and mental ability, sexual orientation, religion, work and family status, weight and appearance, social class, and other identity-based areas that affect their experiences, outcomes, and opportunit...
CMN 214 Exam 1 Questions and
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Diversity - ANSWERS-Real or perceived differences among people in race, ethnicity,
sex, age, physical and mental ability, sexual orientation, religion, work and family status,
weight and appearance, social class, and other identity-based areas that affect their
experiences, outcomes, and opportunities in organizations and society
Identity Groups - ANSWERS-Collectivities people use to categorize themselves and
others
Employment Discrimination - ANSWERS-Personal characteristics of applicants and
workers that are unrelated to productivity are valued in the labor market
Access Discrimination - ANSWERS-People are denied employment opportunities or
"access" to jobs because of their group memberships
Treatment Discrimination - ANSWERS-People are employed but are treated unfairly on
the job, receiving fewer rewards, resources, or opportunities than they should receive
based on job-related criteria
Productive Characteristics - ANSWERS-Performance, education, skills, and tenure,
have different experiences because of factors such as race, ethnic origin, sex, age,
physical ability, religion, and immigrant status
Inclusion - ANSWERS-The degree to which "different voices of a diverse workforce are
respected and heard."
Ethnicity - ANSWERS-Shared national origin or a shared cultural heritage
Consumer Racial Profiling - ANSWERS-"Differential treatment of consumers in the
marketplace based on race/ethnicity that constitutes denial of or degradation in the
products and/or services that are offered to the consumer."
Diversity Climate - ANSWERS-"The tone set by the organization and sensed by its
members regarding the value and role of diversity, including the degree to which it
advocates fair human resource policies and socially integrates underrepresented
employees."
Participation Rate - ANSWERS-The ratio of persons age 16 and over who are working
or looking for work divided by the population of persons age 16 and over
, Discouraged Workers - ANSWERS-Those who want to work but have given up
searching for employment because they believe there are no jobs available to them, are
not included in the official rates
Underemployed - ANSWERS-Workers employed at less than their full employment
potential, including those working part-time, temporary, or intermittent jobs but desiring
regular, full-time work; those working for lower wages than their skills would imply or in
positions requiring considerably lower skills than they possess; and those involuntarily
working outside their fields
Ambivalent Sexism - ANSWERS-The simultaneous holding of both hostile and
"benevolent" sexist beliefs about women; for example, "women are incompetent at
work" and "women must be protected."
Benevolent Sexism - ANSWERS-A set of interrelated attitudes toward women that are
sexist while they are perceived as positive by the attitude holder
Aversive Racism - ANSWERS-The holding of egalitarian values and beliefs that one is
unprejudiced but still possessing negative feelings and beliefs about racial issues and
minority group members
Descriptive Stereotyping - ANSWERS-Perceptions about how people do or will behave
based on their group memberships
Discrimination - ANSWERS-Differential and pejorative actions that serve to limit the
social, political, or economic opportunities of members of particular groups
Egalitarian - ANSWERS-One who believes in human equality, particularly regarding
social, political, and economic rights and privileges
Hostile Sexism - ANSWERS-Antipathy toward women based on faulty and inflexible
generalizations (negative stereotypes)
Internalized Racism - ANSWERS-The acceptance of and belief by members of
devalued races in negative messages about their own abilities and intrinsic worth and
those of others of the same race
Neosexism - ANSWERS-The conflict between people's reported egalitarian values and
their negative attitudes toward women
Prejudice - ANSWERS-Irrational, negative evaluations of a group
Prescriptive Stereotyping - ANSWERS-Perceptions about how people should behave
based on their group memberships
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