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AEMA Questions and Answers (Expert
Solutions)
Q: Staffing
ANS 🗹🗹: The complete function of providing all necessary services to a particular
group
Q: One of the most crucial steps in the hiring process
ANS 🗹🗹: Job Analysis (Plan of attack)
Q: What does a job description entail
ANS 🗹🗹: job, title, location, summary, requirements, etc
Q: What do job specifications entail
ANS 🗹🗹: education, experience, training, physical efforts, etc.
Q: What is the Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
ANS 🗹🗹: A federal agency designed to enforce laws against federal workplace
discrimination.
(Provides oversight and coordination for all federal equal employment opportunity
regulations, practices and policies
Q: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination against:
ANS 🗹🗹: race, color, religion, sex, national origin
Q: Equal Pay Act of 1963 protects against:
ANS 🗹🗹: sex based wage discrimination
Q: Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) protects
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ANS 🗹🗹: people 40 and over
Q: Title I and title V of the Americans Disabilities act of 1990 (ADA) prohibits
employment discrimination against:
ANS 🗹🗹: qualified individuals with disabilities in the private sector and in state or
local governments
Q: Sections 501 and 505 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 prohibits discrimination
against
ANS 🗹🗹: qualified individuals with disabilities who work in the federal
government
Q: Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA) prohibits
employment discrimination based on:
ANS 🗹🗹: genetic information about an applicant, employee or former employee
Q: The Civil Rights act of 1991 provide monetary damages in cases of:
ANS 🗹🗹: intentional employment discrimination
Q: Name the three employment types
ANS 🗹🗹: Volunteer, Student Assistants, Full Time
Q: Define selection process
ANS 🗹🗹: The way information from the organizational goals and job analysis are
matched to a pool of candidates with the institution wishes to review
Q: What type of cases seek to achieve socially acceptable results by resolving the
conflicting interests of two parties
ANS 🗹🗹: Tort (An injured party must have a reason to take action against another
party in an effort to recover damages for the injury)
Q: What are the 7 legal criteria for finding someone responsible
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ANS 🗹🗹: Intentional harm to the person, intentional harm to tangible property,
negligence, strict liability, nuisance, harm to tangible personal interests, harm to
property interests
Q: Most sport law cases are the result of:
ANS 🗹🗹: negligence
Q: How is it determined whether someone can be found negligent
ANS 🗹🗹: his actions are compared to those expected of an ordinary, reasonably
prudent person under a certain set of circumstances
Q: What are the 5 factors to determine whether someone can be found liable for their
actions (or lack thereof)
ANS 🗹🗹: ignorance of the law, disregarding the law, failure to act, failure to warn,
expense
Q: Ignorance of the law
ANS 🗹🗹: It is our job to know the regulations and laws that pertain to our area of
responsibility
Q: Disregarding the law
ANS 🗹🗹: Once you know the laws, take care to not disregard them
Q: Failure to Warn
ANS 🗹🗹: Never hesitate to act when there is potential danger
Q: Expense
ANS 🗹🗹: Budget cuts in safety
Q: Why can contributory negligence prevent the injured party from recovering damages
ANS 🗹🗹: they were in some way, even slight, responsible for causing their own
injury
Q: How is comparative negligence different from contributory negligence
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ANS 🗹🗹: The damages are prorated according to their degree of negligence. (So
contributory is no longer considered in these states)
Q: When the plaintiff must recover a large dollar amount to cover damages, they name
an entity with the ability to pay large sums, what is this concept?
ANS 🗹🗹: Deep Pocket
Q: An employer can be held liable for an act committed by an employee if the act can be
considered to be within the scope of their employment
ANS 🗹🗹: Doctrine of respondent Superior (The liability is transferred wholly to the
employer because he created the situation whereby the employee did what they did.
Yet, the employee can still be sued in a later case)
Q: What is vitally important to help protect both you and the company from legal
accountability
ANS 🗹🗹: Maintenance Records (include daily/weekly/monthly eq inspections)
Q: What are the 2 benefits of maintenance records
ANS 🗹🗹: Detail all maintenance activity in inventory, indicate the location of items
that are out for repair
Q: What is vicarious liability?
ANS 🗹🗹: When the employer assumes the employee's liability
Q: What is the manufacturer liable for in terms of manufacturer/product liability?
ANS 🗹🗹: Reasonable care in both the manufacturing and design of their wares to
ensure consumer safety when the produces are used as intended (a baseball bat
used in a game vs being used as a weapon)
Q: The responsibility of comparing various manufacturers' products falls on who?
ANS 🗹🗹: Retailer or wholesaler
Q: What is the organization that was created to help ensure that athletic equipment
passed a MINIMAL standard for safety
AEMA Questions and Answers (Expert
Solutions)
Q: Staffing
ANS 🗹🗹: The complete function of providing all necessary services to a particular
group
Q: One of the most crucial steps in the hiring process
ANS 🗹🗹: Job Analysis (Plan of attack)
Q: What does a job description entail
ANS 🗹🗹: job, title, location, summary, requirements, etc
Q: What do job specifications entail
ANS 🗹🗹: education, experience, training, physical efforts, etc.
Q: What is the Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
ANS 🗹🗹: A federal agency designed to enforce laws against federal workplace
discrimination.
(Provides oversight and coordination for all federal equal employment opportunity
regulations, practices and policies
Q: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination against:
ANS 🗹🗹: race, color, religion, sex, national origin
Q: Equal Pay Act of 1963 protects against:
ANS 🗹🗹: sex based wage discrimination
Q: Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) protects
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ANS 🗹🗹: people 40 and over
Q: Title I and title V of the Americans Disabilities act of 1990 (ADA) prohibits
employment discrimination against:
ANS 🗹🗹: qualified individuals with disabilities in the private sector and in state or
local governments
Q: Sections 501 and 505 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 prohibits discrimination
against
ANS 🗹🗹: qualified individuals with disabilities who work in the federal
government
Q: Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA) prohibits
employment discrimination based on:
ANS 🗹🗹: genetic information about an applicant, employee or former employee
Q: The Civil Rights act of 1991 provide monetary damages in cases of:
ANS 🗹🗹: intentional employment discrimination
Q: Name the three employment types
ANS 🗹🗹: Volunteer, Student Assistants, Full Time
Q: Define selection process
ANS 🗹🗹: The way information from the organizational goals and job analysis are
matched to a pool of candidates with the institution wishes to review
Q: What type of cases seek to achieve socially acceptable results by resolving the
conflicting interests of two parties
ANS 🗹🗹: Tort (An injured party must have a reason to take action against another
party in an effort to recover damages for the injury)
Q: What are the 7 legal criteria for finding someone responsible
, Page | 3
ANS 🗹🗹: Intentional harm to the person, intentional harm to tangible property,
negligence, strict liability, nuisance, harm to tangible personal interests, harm to
property interests
Q: Most sport law cases are the result of:
ANS 🗹🗹: negligence
Q: How is it determined whether someone can be found negligent
ANS 🗹🗹: his actions are compared to those expected of an ordinary, reasonably
prudent person under a certain set of circumstances
Q: What are the 5 factors to determine whether someone can be found liable for their
actions (or lack thereof)
ANS 🗹🗹: ignorance of the law, disregarding the law, failure to act, failure to warn,
expense
Q: Ignorance of the law
ANS 🗹🗹: It is our job to know the regulations and laws that pertain to our area of
responsibility
Q: Disregarding the law
ANS 🗹🗹: Once you know the laws, take care to not disregard them
Q: Failure to Warn
ANS 🗹🗹: Never hesitate to act when there is potential danger
Q: Expense
ANS 🗹🗹: Budget cuts in safety
Q: Why can contributory negligence prevent the injured party from recovering damages
ANS 🗹🗹: they were in some way, even slight, responsible for causing their own
injury
Q: How is comparative negligence different from contributory negligence
, Page | 4
ANS 🗹🗹: The damages are prorated according to their degree of negligence. (So
contributory is no longer considered in these states)
Q: When the plaintiff must recover a large dollar amount to cover damages, they name
an entity with the ability to pay large sums, what is this concept?
ANS 🗹🗹: Deep Pocket
Q: An employer can be held liable for an act committed by an employee if the act can be
considered to be within the scope of their employment
ANS 🗹🗹: Doctrine of respondent Superior (The liability is transferred wholly to the
employer because he created the situation whereby the employee did what they did.
Yet, the employee can still be sued in a later case)
Q: What is vitally important to help protect both you and the company from legal
accountability
ANS 🗹🗹: Maintenance Records (include daily/weekly/monthly eq inspections)
Q: What are the 2 benefits of maintenance records
ANS 🗹🗹: Detail all maintenance activity in inventory, indicate the location of items
that are out for repair
Q: What is vicarious liability?
ANS 🗹🗹: When the employer assumes the employee's liability
Q: What is the manufacturer liable for in terms of manufacturer/product liability?
ANS 🗹🗹: Reasonable care in both the manufacturing and design of their wares to
ensure consumer safety when the produces are used as intended (a baseball bat
used in a game vs being used as a weapon)
Q: The responsibility of comparing various manufacturers' products falls on who?
ANS 🗹🗹: Retailer or wholesaler
Q: What is the organization that was created to help ensure that athletic equipment
passed a MINIMAL standard for safety
