CMN 214 Exam 1 Study Guide Solutions
Access Discrimination - ✔✔When people are denied employment opportunities, or "access" to jobs, based
on their race, sex, age, or other factors not related to productivity.
Consumer racial profiling - ✔✔differential treatment of consumers in the marketplace based on
race/ethnicity that constitutes denial of or degradation in the products and/or services that are offered to
the consumer
Discouraged workers - ✔✔people not currently looking for work because they believe there are no jobs
available for them, for various reasons, including discrimination
Diversity - ✔✔real or perceived differences among people in race, ethnicity, age, sex, etc, that affect their
experiences, outcomes, and opportunities in organizations and society.
Diversity climate - ✔✔the tone set by the organizations and sensed by its members with regard to the
value and role of diversity, including the degree to which the organization advocates fair human resource
policies and socially integrates underrepresented employees
Employment Discrimination - ✔✔the valuation in the labor market of personal characteristics of
applicants and workers that are unrelated to productivity
Equity - ✔✔the distribution and provision of resources to achieve a fair or just outcome
Ethnicity - ✔✔a shared national origin or a shared cultural heritage
Gender role socialization - ✔✔the process by which social institutions, including families, friends,
organizations, and the media, form and shape expectations of acceptable behaviors for men and women
Identity groups - ✔✔the collectivities people use to categorize themselves and others
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, Inclusion - ✔✔the degree to which different voices of a diverse workforce are respected and heard
Intersectionality - ✔✔the connected nature of various social identities, such as race, gender, and class and
potential for overlapping and interconnected systems of discrimination based on those identities
myth of meritocracy - ✔✔the idea that societal resources are distributed exclusively or primarily on the
basis of individual merit
participation rates - ✔✔the ratio of persons age 16 and over who are working or looking for work divided
by the populations of persons age 16 and over`
productive characteristics - ✔✔such things as performance, education, skills, and tenure that are
generally construed as legitimate reasons for differentiation among employees
Radicalized sexual harassment - ✔✔the combination of racial and sexual harassment, which includes
both sexual and racial derogatory behaviors, comments, and demands directed at a person because of
their race and sex.
social class - ✔✔ones position in the economic system of production, distribution, and consumption of
goods and services in industrial societies, often measured by education, income, or wealth.
structural or systemic racism - ✔✔the ways in which society foster racial discrimination through
mutually reinforcing systems, including public policies, institutional practices, cultural representations,
and other norms that work in reinforcing ways to perpetuate group inequity
Treatment discrimination - ✔✔when people are employed but are treated differently once employed,
receiving fewer job-related rewards, resources, or opportunities than they should receive based on job-
related criteria
Underemployed - ✔✔workers employed at less than their full employment potential, including those
working part-time, temporary, or intermittent jobs but desiring regular, full-time work; those working for
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Access Discrimination - ✔✔When people are denied employment opportunities, or "access" to jobs, based
on their race, sex, age, or other factors not related to productivity.
Consumer racial profiling - ✔✔differential treatment of consumers in the marketplace based on
race/ethnicity that constitutes denial of or degradation in the products and/or services that are offered to
the consumer
Discouraged workers - ✔✔people not currently looking for work because they believe there are no jobs
available for them, for various reasons, including discrimination
Diversity - ✔✔real or perceived differences among people in race, ethnicity, age, sex, etc, that affect their
experiences, outcomes, and opportunities in organizations and society.
Diversity climate - ✔✔the tone set by the organizations and sensed by its members with regard to the
value and role of diversity, including the degree to which the organization advocates fair human resource
policies and socially integrates underrepresented employees
Employment Discrimination - ✔✔the valuation in the labor market of personal characteristics of
applicants and workers that are unrelated to productivity
Equity - ✔✔the distribution and provision of resources to achieve a fair or just outcome
Ethnicity - ✔✔a shared national origin or a shared cultural heritage
Gender role socialization - ✔✔the process by which social institutions, including families, friends,
organizations, and the media, form and shape expectations of acceptable behaviors for men and women
Identity groups - ✔✔the collectivities people use to categorize themselves and others
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, Inclusion - ✔✔the degree to which different voices of a diverse workforce are respected and heard
Intersectionality - ✔✔the connected nature of various social identities, such as race, gender, and class and
potential for overlapping and interconnected systems of discrimination based on those identities
myth of meritocracy - ✔✔the idea that societal resources are distributed exclusively or primarily on the
basis of individual merit
participation rates - ✔✔the ratio of persons age 16 and over who are working or looking for work divided
by the populations of persons age 16 and over`
productive characteristics - ✔✔such things as performance, education, skills, and tenure that are
generally construed as legitimate reasons for differentiation among employees
Radicalized sexual harassment - ✔✔the combination of racial and sexual harassment, which includes
both sexual and racial derogatory behaviors, comments, and demands directed at a person because of
their race and sex.
social class - ✔✔ones position in the economic system of production, distribution, and consumption of
goods and services in industrial societies, often measured by education, income, or wealth.
structural or systemic racism - ✔✔the ways in which society foster racial discrimination through
mutually reinforcing systems, including public policies, institutional practices, cultural representations,
and other norms that work in reinforcing ways to perpetuate group inequity
Treatment discrimination - ✔✔when people are employed but are treated differently once employed,
receiving fewer job-related rewards, resources, or opportunities than they should receive based on job-
related criteria
Underemployed - ✔✔workers employed at less than their full employment potential, including those
working part-time, temporary, or intermittent jobs but desiring regular, full-time work; those working for
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