PSY 3314 Chapter 5: Personnel Decisions questions and
answers with solutions 2025/2026
Civil Rights Act of 1964 - ANSWER US legislation that declared all
discriminatory employment practices unlawful
- established EEOC
- created protected groups
Protected group - ANSWER a designation for members of society who are
granted legal status by virtue of a demographic characteristic
race; sex; religion; color; nationality - ANSWER What are the 5 protected
groups?
EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) - ANSWER gov. entity
established by CRA to investigate charges of prohibited employment
practices and to use conciliation and persuasion to eliminate prohibited
practices
BFOQ (Bona Fide Occupational Qualification) - ANSWER bias employment
practices for a reason
- must be "reasonably necessary to the operation of that particular
business"
, Fesel vs Masonic Homes of Delaware (1978) - ANSWER Court case that
established precedent that gender may be used as a BFOQ in nursing
based on privacy rights of patients
Joseph Garcia vs Hooters - ANSWER Court case involving man denied job
at Hooters based on gender as a BFOQ
- Hooters lost
- no reason that waiters, bartenders, and hosts couldn't be men
Adverse Impact - ANSWER a type of unfair discrimination in which the
result of using a particular personnel selection method has a negative
effect on protected group members compared with majority group
members
**80% RULE**
Disparate Treatment - ANSWER a type of unfair discrimination in which
protected group members are afforded differential employment
procedures compared to members of other groups
80 percent rule - ANSWER rule stating that adverse impact occurs if the
selection ratio for any group of applicants is less than 80% of the
selection ratio for another group
Affirmative Action - ANSWER a social policy that advocates members of
protected groups will be actively recruited and considered for selection
in employment
answers with solutions 2025/2026
Civil Rights Act of 1964 - ANSWER US legislation that declared all
discriminatory employment practices unlawful
- established EEOC
- created protected groups
Protected group - ANSWER a designation for members of society who are
granted legal status by virtue of a demographic characteristic
race; sex; religion; color; nationality - ANSWER What are the 5 protected
groups?
EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) - ANSWER gov. entity
established by CRA to investigate charges of prohibited employment
practices and to use conciliation and persuasion to eliminate prohibited
practices
BFOQ (Bona Fide Occupational Qualification) - ANSWER bias employment
practices for a reason
- must be "reasonably necessary to the operation of that particular
business"
, Fesel vs Masonic Homes of Delaware (1978) - ANSWER Court case that
established precedent that gender may be used as a BFOQ in nursing
based on privacy rights of patients
Joseph Garcia vs Hooters - ANSWER Court case involving man denied job
at Hooters based on gender as a BFOQ
- Hooters lost
- no reason that waiters, bartenders, and hosts couldn't be men
Adverse Impact - ANSWER a type of unfair discrimination in which the
result of using a particular personnel selection method has a negative
effect on protected group members compared with majority group
members
**80% RULE**
Disparate Treatment - ANSWER a type of unfair discrimination in which
protected group members are afforded differential employment
procedures compared to members of other groups
80 percent rule - ANSWER rule stating that adverse impact occurs if the
selection ratio for any group of applicants is less than 80% of the
selection ratio for another group
Affirmative Action - ANSWER a social policy that advocates members of
protected groups will be actively recruited and considered for selection
in employment
