OpenStax Business Ethics Test Bank
Chapter 8: Recognizing and Respecting the Rights of All
Chapter 8: Recognizing and Respecting the Rights of All
* = Correct answer
Multiple Choice/Fill in the Blank
1. To achieve a greater degree of diversity in the workplace, managers’ goals should encompass
which of the following?
A. ethics
B. sustainability
C. inclusion*
D. accommodation
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Understand
AACSB: Diversity
2. Which of the following are factors included when applying a legal definition of diversity?
(Select all that apply.)
A. social status
B. religious beliefs*
C. gender*
D. physical abilities*
Difficulty: Moderate
Blooms: Understand
AACSB: Analytical
3. If a person has a disability (i.e., a physical or mental impairment) that reduces participation in
“a major life activity,” such as work, an employer is obliged to provide ________.
A. compassion
B. reasonable accommodations*
C. sympathy
D. selective training
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Understand
AACSB: Diversity
4. Title VII of the CRA, which governs nondiscrimination, mandates four tenets that all
employers should follow. Which of the following is not one of the tenets?
A. undue hardship*
B. nondiscrimination
C. nonharassment
D. reasonable accommodation
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Chapter 8: Recognizing and Respecting the Rights of All
Difficulty: Moderate
Blooms: Evaluate
AACSB: Diversity
5. Which company denied a teenage girl a job because she did not conform to the company’s
“Look Policy” when she wore a hijab (headscarf) to the job interview?
A. Google
B. Abercrombie & Fitch*
C. Facebook
D. Hollister
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember
AACSB: Real-world
6. Which of the following best describes income inequality?
A. The disparity in income among people with children
B. The imbalance in the distribution of income among people within an economy*
C. On average, women are paid approximately 80 percent of what men are paid.
D. There is a gender wage gap in the United States between men and women.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Understand
AACSB: Ethics
7. According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), gender inequality is strongly associated
with which of the following?
A. income inequality*
B. religious beliefs
C. race
D. ethics
Difficulty: Moderate
Blooms: Evaluate
AACSB: Real-world
8. Which of the following pay discrimination laws is the strongest such law in the United
States, allowing victims of discrimination to seek redress for up to six years of underpayment
and tripling monetary damages for a prevailing plaintiff?
A. Pew Research Center Equal Pay Act
B. New Jersey Equal Pay Act
C. Diane B. Allen Equal Pay Act*
D. WEF Equals Pay Act
Difficulty: Moderate
Blooms: Evaluate
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Chapter 8: Recognizing and Respecting the Rights of All
Chapter 8: Recognizing and Respecting the Rights of All
* = Correct answer
Multiple Choice/Fill in the Blank
1. To achieve a greater degree of diversity in the workplace, managers’ goals should encompass
which of the following?
A. ethics
B. sustainability
C. inclusion*
D. accommodation
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Understand
AACSB: Diversity
2. Which of the following are factors included when applying a legal definition of diversity?
(Select all that apply.)
A. social status
B. religious beliefs*
C. gender*
D. physical abilities*
Difficulty: Moderate
Blooms: Understand
AACSB: Analytical
3. If a person has a disability (i.e., a physical or mental impairment) that reduces participation in
“a major life activity,” such as work, an employer is obliged to provide ________.
A. compassion
B. reasonable accommodations*
C. sympathy
D. selective training
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Understand
AACSB: Diversity
4. Title VII of the CRA, which governs nondiscrimination, mandates four tenets that all
employers should follow. Which of the following is not one of the tenets?
A. undue hardship*
B. nondiscrimination
C. nonharassment
D. reasonable accommodation
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, OpenStax Business Ethics Test Bank
Chapter 8: Recognizing and Respecting the Rights of All
Difficulty: Moderate
Blooms: Evaluate
AACSB: Diversity
5. Which company denied a teenage girl a job because she did not conform to the company’s
“Look Policy” when she wore a hijab (headscarf) to the job interview?
A. Google
B. Abercrombie & Fitch*
C. Facebook
D. Hollister
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember
AACSB: Real-world
6. Which of the following best describes income inequality?
A. The disparity in income among people with children
B. The imbalance in the distribution of income among people within an economy*
C. On average, women are paid approximately 80 percent of what men are paid.
D. There is a gender wage gap in the United States between men and women.
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Understand
AACSB: Ethics
7. According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), gender inequality is strongly associated
with which of the following?
A. income inequality*
B. religious beliefs
C. race
D. ethics
Difficulty: Moderate
Blooms: Evaluate
AACSB: Real-world
8. Which of the following pay discrimination laws is the strongest such law in the United
States, allowing victims of discrimination to seek redress for up to six years of underpayment
and tripling monetary damages for a prevailing plaintiff?
A. Pew Research Center Equal Pay Act
B. New Jersey Equal Pay Act
C. Diane B. Allen Equal Pay Act*
D. WEF Equals Pay Act
Difficulty: Moderate
Blooms: Evaluate
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