Example Exam Questions for Culture and Diversity at Work 24-25
Week 1
1. How does reflected power influence female leaders?
a. They can benefit if someone else with power backs them up
b. Power of others can harm their leading role
c. Reflected power does not influence them at all
d. They can reflect with their power on how well their leadership is
perceived
2. A tech company hires employees from different ethnic backgrounds, but
they all graduated from the same elite universities and share similar
viewpoints, resulting in little cognitive diversity. This illustrates…
a. Deep-level diversity
b. Surface-level diversity
c. Numerical diversity
d. Informational diversity
3. Which of the following is not a key condition of the intergroup contact
theory?
a. Common goals
b. Intergroup cooperation
c. Support of authorities
d. Unfamiliarity of the intergroup
4. Open Question: According to Kanter, how do organizational structures lead
to lowered ambitions in females and people of minority groups? Also name
two things they turn to when finding themselves in a low mobility position.
Week 2
5. Which of the following is not part of the concept of triple jeopardy?
a. Token status
b. Stereotyping
c. Solo status
d. Sexism
6. A university praises its diversity efforts by admitting more students of color
but assumes they need extra academic support. This is an example of
______ discrimination/prejudice
a. Ambivalent
b. Blatant
c. Aversive
d. Contemporary
7. When does solo status have a positive effect on performance?
a. It has a positive effect on performance when the demands are
higher than the coping resources
b. It has a positive effect on performance when the coping resources
are higher than the demands
c. When the person is confronted with negative stereotypes about
themselves
d. It can never have a positive effect on performance
8. How does stereotype threat occur? Illustrate with an example as well.
Week 3
, 9. Social factors influence and affect what we expect and value. Influences
from people around us such as our teachers or parents are also referred to
as:
a. Causal attributions
b. Socializers
c. Social role beliefs
d. Social experiences
10.Which diversity ideology is better used for females instead of other
minority groups?
a. Diversity aware ideology
b. Multiculturalism
c. Diversity blind ideology
d. Melting pot assimilation
11.When do we start to express gender differences?
a. During adolescence when we realize that we belong to different
social groups according to our gender
b. During adulthood as gender roles become very prominent and make
up a big part of our identity by then
c. During childhood as we grow up with gender differences through
books and movies
d. Humans have overcome gender differences
12.How can expectancies become a self-fulfilling prophecy? Explain by using
an example
Week 4
13.Why do males believe they are entitled to higher pay according to O
´Brien?
a. Due to system-justifying beliefs that suggest them that it is fair and
right for males to earn more money
b. System-justifying beliefs help to encourage males to work harder
and therefore they earn more money
c. Men are better in working in leadership positions and therefore they
also earn more money
d. There is no such thing as the gender pay gap
14.A school gives equal access to resources but ignores that some students
start with disadvantages (e.g., wealth, family support), meaning the
"equal" treatment still benefits the privileged more. This is an illustration
of:
a. Equality paradox
b. Discrimination
c. Tokenism
d. Prejudice and bias
15.When applying for her dream job at a big law firm, Vanessa gets rejected.
She later hears that the organization is highly reluctant to hire young
women as they will “anyway go on maternity leave after 3 months and
choose their children over their career”. Vanessa has been confronted
with:
a. Malicious discrimination
b. Consumer discrimination
c. Statistical discrimination
d. Selective discrimination
Week 1
1. How does reflected power influence female leaders?
a. They can benefit if someone else with power backs them up
b. Power of others can harm their leading role
c. Reflected power does not influence them at all
d. They can reflect with their power on how well their leadership is
perceived
2. A tech company hires employees from different ethnic backgrounds, but
they all graduated from the same elite universities and share similar
viewpoints, resulting in little cognitive diversity. This illustrates…
a. Deep-level diversity
b. Surface-level diversity
c. Numerical diversity
d. Informational diversity
3. Which of the following is not a key condition of the intergroup contact
theory?
a. Common goals
b. Intergroup cooperation
c. Support of authorities
d. Unfamiliarity of the intergroup
4. Open Question: According to Kanter, how do organizational structures lead
to lowered ambitions in females and people of minority groups? Also name
two things they turn to when finding themselves in a low mobility position.
Week 2
5. Which of the following is not part of the concept of triple jeopardy?
a. Token status
b. Stereotyping
c. Solo status
d. Sexism
6. A university praises its diversity efforts by admitting more students of color
but assumes they need extra academic support. This is an example of
______ discrimination/prejudice
a. Ambivalent
b. Blatant
c. Aversive
d. Contemporary
7. When does solo status have a positive effect on performance?
a. It has a positive effect on performance when the demands are
higher than the coping resources
b. It has a positive effect on performance when the coping resources
are higher than the demands
c. When the person is confronted with negative stereotypes about
themselves
d. It can never have a positive effect on performance
8. How does stereotype threat occur? Illustrate with an example as well.
Week 3
, 9. Social factors influence and affect what we expect and value. Influences
from people around us such as our teachers or parents are also referred to
as:
a. Causal attributions
b. Socializers
c. Social role beliefs
d. Social experiences
10.Which diversity ideology is better used for females instead of other
minority groups?
a. Diversity aware ideology
b. Multiculturalism
c. Diversity blind ideology
d. Melting pot assimilation
11.When do we start to express gender differences?
a. During adolescence when we realize that we belong to different
social groups according to our gender
b. During adulthood as gender roles become very prominent and make
up a big part of our identity by then
c. During childhood as we grow up with gender differences through
books and movies
d. Humans have overcome gender differences
12.How can expectancies become a self-fulfilling prophecy? Explain by using
an example
Week 4
13.Why do males believe they are entitled to higher pay according to O
´Brien?
a. Due to system-justifying beliefs that suggest them that it is fair and
right for males to earn more money
b. System-justifying beliefs help to encourage males to work harder
and therefore they earn more money
c. Men are better in working in leadership positions and therefore they
also earn more money
d. There is no such thing as the gender pay gap
14.A school gives equal access to resources but ignores that some students
start with disadvantages (e.g., wealth, family support), meaning the
"equal" treatment still benefits the privileged more. This is an illustration
of:
a. Equality paradox
b. Discrimination
c. Tokenism
d. Prejudice and bias
15.When applying for her dream job at a big law firm, Vanessa gets rejected.
She later hears that the organization is highly reluctant to hire young
women as they will “anyway go on maternity leave after 3 months and
choose their children over their career”. Vanessa has been confronted
with:
a. Malicious discrimination
b. Consumer discrimination
c. Statistical discrimination
d. Selective discrimination
