SOCS 350 Week 8 Final Exam, questions and answers (complete)

SOCS350 Final Exam What is diversity? What does it mean to you? To society? What is the relationship between compliance with legislative acts and valuing diversity? Explain. What can White men, who are most likely to be managers and executives in organizations, do to foster diversity in organizations? Why would they want to do so? Discuss the diversity among Cubans, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans in the United States. How does this diversity affect their organizational experiences? What is the relationship between poverty and discrimination? According to the text, what are the characteristics of people living in poverty? WEEK 7 QUIZ (TCO 1) Describe three of the corporations and their best practices for work- life balance issues listed in the Harvey article in Chapter 46. (Points : 30) (TCOs 3 & 4) Diversity actions mandated by government regulations are collectively know diversity training cultural awareness affirmative action* reverse discrimination edicts Question 2. 2. (TCOs 1 & 3) According to the lecture, affirmative action is becoming a(n) , rather dividing, unifying unimportant, important outmoded, contempory unifying, dividing theoretical, practical* Question 3. 3. (TCO 7 & 8) What is the first step in the strategies for dealing with cultural diversity? (P Tailor your approach based on your definition of the situation Examine our own assumptions, values, and prejudices* Engage in social engineering Seek alternative approaches Sharpen the saw Question 4. 4. (TCOs 7 & 8) What step in the strategies for dealing with cultural diversity is “Consider interactions?” (Points : 10) First * Second Fourth Sixth Last 2. (TCO 3) Identify and describe the first three steps in the process of evaluating organizational commitment to diversity when conducting a cultural diversity audit of the organization’s website. (Points : 30) 1. Evaluate how accessible diversity-related material is on this Web site. Is there a direct link from the home page? What type of results does entering the term “diversity” in a search box yield? Or, do you have to explore on your own? Sometimes searching under “careers” or “press releases” may produce some diversity-related results. On some Web sites, students will have to explore deeply into Web pages to find material related to diversity. What does this say about the organization’s commitment to diversity? 2. Evaluate the usefulness of the diversity information to potential employees, customers, and suppliers. Is the diversity material related to the organization’s business case for diversity, core values, mission, etc. the way that the organization does business? How current is the diversity-related material? For a good example explore Hewlett Packard’s Web site at 3. Evaluate the appropriateness of the photographs and graphic material that relates to diversity. Some Web sites will feature photographs of diverse employees and customers, yet not link this material to the verbal content. Some reuse the same pictures on different pages, etc.