WGU D357 #1 Questions with Correct Answers
Access discrimination - ✔✔People denied employment opportunities based on
race, sex age, or other factors not related to productivity
consumer racial profiling - ✔✔Different treatment of consumers based on race
that equals denial or degradation of products or services
Discouraged workers - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Real or perceived differences among people that affects their
experiences, outcomes and opportunities in the organization/society
Diversity, climate - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Distribution of resources to achieve a fair outcome
Ethnicity - ✔✔Shared national origin, or cultural heritage
,Gender role socialization - ✔✔The idea that people learn culture-specific
expectations about gender roles passively, through exposure to social information
in the environment.
Identity groups - ✔✔the collectivities people use to categorize themselves and
others
Inclusion - ✔✔The degree to which the different voices of a diverse workforce are
respected and heard
Intersectionality because - ✔✔The connected nature of various social identities
and potential for overlapping interconnecting systems of discrimination based on
those identities
Myth of meritocracy - ✔✔the idea that everyone can achieve whatever goals he
or she desires by virtue of hard work and perseverance.
Participation ratio - ✔✔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 - ✔✔such things as performance, education, skills, and
tenure that are generally construed as legitimate reasons for differentiation
among employees
Racialized sexual-harassment - ✔✔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 - ✔✔a group of people with similar backgrounds, incomes, and ways
of living
Structural, or systemic racism - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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
Underemployed - ✔✔working at a job for which one is overqualified, or working
part-time when full-time work is desired
Allies - ✔✔Dominant group, members, and others, not being uniquely oppressed
in a particular circumstance, who work to end oppression through their support
and advocacy of those who are oppressed
Ambivolent sexism - ✔✔encompasses both hostile and benevolent sexism.
(Women must be protected)
Attribution error - ✔✔errors made in attributing causes for people's behavior to
their membership in a particular group, such as a racial group
Access discrimination - ✔✔People denied employment opportunities based on
race, sex age, or other factors not related to productivity
consumer racial profiling - ✔✔Different treatment of consumers based on race
that equals denial or degradation of products or services
Discouraged workers - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Real or perceived differences among people that affects their
experiences, outcomes and opportunities in the organization/society
Diversity, climate - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Distribution of resources to achieve a fair outcome
Ethnicity - ✔✔Shared national origin, or cultural heritage
,Gender role socialization - ✔✔The idea that people learn culture-specific
expectations about gender roles passively, through exposure to social information
in the environment.
Identity groups - ✔✔the collectivities people use to categorize themselves and
others
Inclusion - ✔✔The degree to which the different voices of a diverse workforce are
respected and heard
Intersectionality because - ✔✔The connected nature of various social identities
and potential for overlapping interconnecting systems of discrimination based on
those identities
Myth of meritocracy - ✔✔the idea that everyone can achieve whatever goals he
or she desires by virtue of hard work and perseverance.
Participation ratio - ✔✔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 - ✔✔such things as performance, education, skills, and
tenure that are generally construed as legitimate reasons for differentiation
among employees
Racialized sexual-harassment - ✔✔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 - ✔✔a group of people with similar backgrounds, incomes, and ways
of living
Structural, or systemic racism - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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
Underemployed - ✔✔working at a job for which one is overqualified, or working
part-time when full-time work is desired
Allies - ✔✔Dominant group, members, and others, not being uniquely oppressed
in a particular circumstance, who work to end oppression through their support
and advocacy of those who are oppressed
Ambivolent sexism - ✔✔encompasses both hostile and benevolent sexism.
(Women must be protected)
Attribution error - ✔✔errors made in attributing causes for people's behavior to
their membership in a particular group, such as a racial group
