MGMT 417 – Module 5 Affirmative Action – Lecture Summary
and Key Concepts Overview
What is Affirmative Action? - correct answer ✔✔ an action or policy favoring those who tend to
suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education; positive
discrimination. Originally designed to benefit woman and blacks, but it has evolved to benefit
other minority groups as well.
Affirmative Action can arise through: - correct answer ✔✔ 1) Executive Order 11246
2) Imposed by a Judge as a result of a Title VII lawsuit
3) "Voluntarily" implemented by employers as required by DOL regulation 29 CR 1608
Arguments FOR and AGAINST Affirmative Action. - correct answer ✔✔ Arguments For: minority
oppression occurred for hundreds of years
- There is evidence that disparity still exists
Arguments Against: All discrimination is WRONG
- The anti-discrimination statutes, enforced by the federal governments EEOC.
Executive Order 11246 - correct answer ✔✔ Executive Order 11246 states that a contractor will
not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color,
religion, sex, or nation origin. The contractor may take affirmative action to ensure that
applicants are employed and that they are treated fairly without regard to their race, color,
religion, sex, or national origin.
Executive Order 11246 prohibits... - correct answer ✔✔ private sector employers who provide
goods & services to the federal government of 10k or more annually, from discriminating with
regard to employment decisions on the basis or race , color, sex, sexual orientation, gender
identity, or national origin.
, Executive Order 11246 also requires... - correct answer ✔✔ federal contractors with 50 or more
employees and contracts of 50k or more to develop written "affirmative action plans" to
increase the number of women and minorities in the workplace.
Who is the Executive Order 11246 enforced by? - correct answer ✔✔ The Executive Order is
enforced by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance programs.
The Executive Order 11246 requires contractors... - correct answer ✔✔ to furnish all
information and reports required by the Executive Order, and permit access to the contractors
books, records, and accounts in order to investigate and determine compliance with the
executive order.
- Executive Order 11246 increase the burden on the contractor based on the amount of money
in the contract.
Amendments - correct answer ✔✔ Pres. Regan did it.
Affirmative Action Plan - correct answer ✔✔ an employers plan to remove gender and racial
imbalance in the employers workplace that includes "placement goals" for women and
minorities, and timetables for achieving those goals.
- The Affirmative Action plan must be in compliance with OFCCP's extensive regulations (41 CFR
Part 60-2)
Parts of an Affirmative Action Plan - correct answer ✔✔ An affirmative action plan has two
parts:
and Key Concepts Overview
What is Affirmative Action? - correct answer ✔✔ an action or policy favoring those who tend to
suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education; positive
discrimination. Originally designed to benefit woman and blacks, but it has evolved to benefit
other minority groups as well.
Affirmative Action can arise through: - correct answer ✔✔ 1) Executive Order 11246
2) Imposed by a Judge as a result of a Title VII lawsuit
3) "Voluntarily" implemented by employers as required by DOL regulation 29 CR 1608
Arguments FOR and AGAINST Affirmative Action. - correct answer ✔✔ Arguments For: minority
oppression occurred for hundreds of years
- There is evidence that disparity still exists
Arguments Against: All discrimination is WRONG
- The anti-discrimination statutes, enforced by the federal governments EEOC.
Executive Order 11246 - correct answer ✔✔ Executive Order 11246 states that a contractor will
not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color,
religion, sex, or nation origin. The contractor may take affirmative action to ensure that
applicants are employed and that they are treated fairly without regard to their race, color,
religion, sex, or national origin.
Executive Order 11246 prohibits... - correct answer ✔✔ private sector employers who provide
goods & services to the federal government of 10k or more annually, from discriminating with
regard to employment decisions on the basis or race , color, sex, sexual orientation, gender
identity, or national origin.
, Executive Order 11246 also requires... - correct answer ✔✔ federal contractors with 50 or more
employees and contracts of 50k or more to develop written "affirmative action plans" to
increase the number of women and minorities in the workplace.
Who is the Executive Order 11246 enforced by? - correct answer ✔✔ The Executive Order is
enforced by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance programs.
The Executive Order 11246 requires contractors... - correct answer ✔✔ to furnish all
information and reports required by the Executive Order, and permit access to the contractors
books, records, and accounts in order to investigate and determine compliance with the
executive order.
- Executive Order 11246 increase the burden on the contractor based on the amount of money
in the contract.
Amendments - correct answer ✔✔ Pres. Regan did it.
Affirmative Action Plan - correct answer ✔✔ an employers plan to remove gender and racial
imbalance in the employers workplace that includes "placement goals" for women and
minorities, and timetables for achieving those goals.
- The Affirmative Action plan must be in compliance with OFCCP's extensive regulations (41 CFR
Part 60-2)
Parts of an Affirmative Action Plan - correct answer ✔✔ An affirmative action plan has two
parts:
