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Legal Environment of Human Resource Management MCQ

The ______ standard refers to the “average” person who would look at the situation and its intensity to determine whether the accused person was wrong in their actions.

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Correct Answer: Reasonable person

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______ refers to unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when submission to or rejection of this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual’s employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual’s work performance, or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment.

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Correct Answer: Sexual harassment

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______ is any action such as a firing, demotion, schedule reduction, or a change that would harm the individual employee.

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Correct Answer: Adverse employment action

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______ is a notice from the EEOC, issued if it elects not to prosecute an individual discrimination complaint within the agency, that gives the recipient the right to go directly to the courts with the complaint.

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Correct Answer: Right-to-sue

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______ are monetary damages awarded by the court that are designed to punish an injuring party that has intentionally inflicted harm on others.

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Correct Answer: Punitive damages

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______ occurs when the level of difficulty for an organization to provide accommodations, determined by looking at the nature and cost of the accommodation and the overall financial resources of the facility, becomes a significant burden on the organization.

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Correct Answer: Undue hardship

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______ are the fundamental duties of the position.

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Correct Answer: Essential functions

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______ is a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, a record of having such an impairment, or being regarded as having such an impairment.

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Correct Answer: Disability

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______ occurs when a particular practice is necessary for the safe and efficient operation of the business and when there is a specific business purpose for applying a particular standard that may, in fact, be discriminatory.

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Correct Answer: Business necessity

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______ occurs when a person or group engages in a sequence of actions over a significant period of time that is intended to deny the rights provided by Title VII of the 1964 CRA to a member of a protected class.

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Correct Answer: Pattern or practice discrimination

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______ occurs when individuals in similar situations are intentionally treated differently, and the different treatment is based on an individual’s membership in a protected class.

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Correct Answer: Disparate treatment

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.______ is a rule of thumb rule to be used whenever you are contemplating any employment action in order to maintain fairness and equity for all of your employees or applicants.

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Correct Answer: OUCH test

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______ is the act of making distinctions or choosing one thing over another; in human resource management, it is making distinctions among people.

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Correct Answer: Discrimination

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Undue hardship looking at the nature and cost of the accommodation and the overall financial resources of the facility

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Correct Answer: True

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Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual is known as

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Correct Answer: Sexual harassment

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EEOC stands for

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Correct Answer: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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A situation where the organization takes an “adverse employment action” against an employee is known as

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Correct Answer: Retaliation

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In reasonable person seeing the “average” person would look at the situation and its intensity to determine whether the accused person was wrong in their actions..

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Correct Answer: True

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_______ an employer to allow someone who is disabled but otherwise qualified to do the essential functions of a job to be able to perform that job.

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Correct Answer: Reasonable accommodation

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When different groups of people have different scores designated as “passing” grades on a test for employment.This statement is related for

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Correct Answer: Race norming

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Which of the following is an example of quid pro quo harassment ?

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Correct Answer: A professor offers to raise a student's grade in exchange for sexual favors.

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Monetary damages awarded by the court that are designed to punish an injuring party that has intentionally inflicted harm on others is known as

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Correct Answer: Punitive damages

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Pattern or practice discrimination is a actions over a significant period of time that is intended to deny the rights provided by Title VII of the 1964 CRA to a member of a protected class.

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Correct Answer: Title VII of the 1964 CRA

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_____ is a rule of thumb rule used whenever you are contemplating any employment action

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Correct Answer: OUCH test

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_______ functions that may be performed on the job but need not be performed by all holders of the job

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Correct Answer: Marginal job functions

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When a test for employment is a legitimate measure of an individual’s ability to do the essential functions of a job is known as

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Correct Answer: Job relatedness

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In Illegal discrimination making distinctions that harm people and that are based on those people’s membership in a protected class.

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Correct Answer: True

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A test used by various federal courts, the Department of Labor, and the EEOC to determine whether disparate impact exists in an employment test is known as

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Correct Answer: Four-fifths rule

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Which of the correct statements about Essential functions ?

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Correct Answer: The fundamental duties of the position.

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______ is intentionally treated differently and the different treatment is based on an individual’s membership in a protected class.

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Correct Answer: Disparate treatment

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When an officially neutral employment practice disproportionately excludes the members of a protected group is known as

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Correct Answer: Unintentional

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The act of making distinctions or choosing one thing over another; in HR, it is making distinctions among people is known as

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Correct Answer: Discrimination

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______ is a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities

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Correct Answer: Disability

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When an employee is put under such extreme pressure by management that continued employment becomes intolerable is known as

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Correct Answer: Constructive discharge

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Compensatory damages awarded by the court that compensate the ______ for losses

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Correct Answer: Injured person

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Which of the correct statements of Business necessity ?

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Correct Answer: When a particular practice is necessary for the safe and efficient operation of the business and when there is a specific business purpose for applying a particular standard

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A qualification that is absolutely required in order for an individual to be able to successfully do a particular job is known as

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Correct Answer: Bona fide occupational qualification

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Adverse employment action is an action such as firings, demotions, schedule reductions, or changes that would _____ the individual employee.

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Correct Answer: Harm

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