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Consumer racial profiling
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 is the definition of
System flexibility
__________________ provides organizations with a competitive
advantage.
Research suggests that as employees get to know one another and
exchange job-relevant information it can cause
Negative effects of surface level differences to be reduced.
Gender diversity at high levels has been associated with_____________
Higher stock prices, firm quality, and financial performance.
The number of issues filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission (EEOC) typically ranges from about
75,000-100,000
What is an identity group?
The collectivities people use to categorize themselves and others.
Describe the importance of group membership categories.
, Social categorization (group membership categories), involves ordering
one's social environment by groupings of persons. Social categorization
helps create and define one's place in society.
Provide an example of the term "social class".
One's position in the economic system of production, distribution, and
consumption of goods and services in industrial societies, often
measured by education, income, or wealth.
Define Employment discrimination.
The valuation (use) in the labor market of personal characteristics of
applicants and workers that are unrelated to productivity.
Define 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.
Provide an example of systematic advantage.
Systematic advantages for those who do not personally experience
discrimination include such things as higher wages and persistently
lower unemployment due to hiring preferences.
Provide an example of systematic disadvantage.
Systematic disadvantages include such things as chronically lower
wages (e.g., the wage gap for women) or chronically higher
unemployment
What is Intersectionality?