WGU D357 ACTUAL TEST PAPER 2026
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ consumer racial profiling. Answer: Different treatment of
consumers based on race that equals denial or degradation of
products or services
◉ Discouraged workers. Answer: people who are available for work
but have not looked for a job during the previous four weeks
because they believe no jobs are available for them
◉ Diversity. Answer: Real or perceived differences among people
that affects their experiences, outcomes and opportunities in the
organization/society
◉ Diversity, climate. Answer: Tone set by the organization and
sensed by its members with regard to value and role of diversity.
Including the degree to which the organization advocates, fair HR
policies and socially integrates underrepresented employees.
◉ Employment discrimination. Answer: Unequal treatment of
employees or job applicants on the basis of race, color, national
origin, religion, gender, age, or disability; prohibited by federal
statutes.
,◉ Equity. Answer: Distribution of resources to achieve a fair
outcome
◉ Ethnicity. Answer: Shared national origin, or cultural heritage
◉ Gender role socialization. Answer: The idea that people learn
culture-specific expectations about gender roles passively, through
exposure to social information in the environment.
◉ Identity groups. Answer: the collectivities people use to
categorize themselves and others
◉ Inclusion. Answer: The degree to which the different voices of a
diverse workforce are respected and heard
◉ Intersectionality because. Answer: The connected nature of
various social identities and potential for overlapping
interconnecting systems of discrimination based on those identities
◉ Myth of meritocracy. Answer: the idea that everyone can achieve
whatever goals he or she desires by virtue of hard work and
perseverance.
, ◉ Participation ratio. Answer: Percentage of the working-age
population who are either employed or actively seeking
employment. Those looking for work divided by population of 16+
◉ Productive characteristics. Answer: such things as performance,
education, skills, and tenure that are generally construed as
legitimate reasons for differentiation among employees
◉ Racialized sexual-harassment. Answer: the combination of racial
and sexual harassment, which includes both sexual and racial
derogatory behaviors, comments, and demands, directed at a person
because of their race and sex
◉ Social class. Answer: a group of people with similar backgrounds,
incomes, and ways of living
◉ Structural, or systemic racism. Answer: the ways in which
societies foster racial discrimination through mutually reinforcing
systems, including public policies, institutional practices, cultural
representations, and other norms that work in reinforcing ways to
perpetuate group inequity
◉ Treatment Discrimination. Answer: when people are employed
but are treated differently once employed, receiving fewer job-
related rewards, resources, or opportunities than they should
receive based on job-related criteria
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ consumer racial profiling. Answer: Different treatment of
consumers based on race that equals denial or degradation of
products or services
◉ Discouraged workers. Answer: people who are available for work
but have not looked for a job during the previous four weeks
because they believe no jobs are available for them
◉ Diversity. Answer: Real or perceived differences among people
that affects their experiences, outcomes and opportunities in the
organization/society
◉ Diversity, climate. Answer: Tone set by the organization and
sensed by its members with regard to value and role of diversity.
Including the degree to which the organization advocates, fair HR
policies and socially integrates underrepresented employees.
◉ Employment discrimination. Answer: Unequal treatment of
employees or job applicants on the basis of race, color, national
origin, religion, gender, age, or disability; prohibited by federal
statutes.
,◉ Equity. Answer: Distribution of resources to achieve a fair
outcome
◉ Ethnicity. Answer: Shared national origin, or cultural heritage
◉ Gender role socialization. Answer: The idea that people learn
culture-specific expectations about gender roles passively, through
exposure to social information in the environment.
◉ Identity groups. Answer: the collectivities people use to
categorize themselves and others
◉ Inclusion. Answer: The degree to which the different voices of a
diverse workforce are respected and heard
◉ Intersectionality because. Answer: The connected nature of
various social identities and potential for overlapping
interconnecting systems of discrimination based on those identities
◉ Myth of meritocracy. Answer: the idea that everyone can achieve
whatever goals he or she desires by virtue of hard work and
perseverance.
, ◉ Participation ratio. Answer: Percentage of the working-age
population who are either employed or actively seeking
employment. Those looking for work divided by population of 16+
◉ Productive characteristics. Answer: such things as performance,
education, skills, and tenure that are generally construed as
legitimate reasons for differentiation among employees
◉ Racialized sexual-harassment. Answer: the combination of racial
and sexual harassment, which includes both sexual and racial
derogatory behaviors, comments, and demands, directed at a person
because of their race and sex
◉ Social class. Answer: a group of people with similar backgrounds,
incomes, and ways of living
◉ Structural, or systemic racism. Answer: the ways in which
societies foster racial discrimination through mutually reinforcing
systems, including public policies, institutional practices, cultural
representations, and other norms that work in reinforcing ways to
perpetuate group inequity
◉ Treatment Discrimination. Answer: when people are employed
but are treated differently once employed, receiving fewer job-
related rewards, resources, or opportunities than they should
receive based on job-related criteria
