Your Firm Has Been Repeatedly Accused of Discrimination, and Your

question 11

Multiple Choice

Your firm has been repeatedly accused of discrimination, and your boss, knowing that you just graduated from college with a degree in Management, and a certificate in Human Resources Management, has asked you to review the company s practices and procedures with regard to hiring and promotion, and eliminate those that could lead to discrimination. Which of the following practices would likely lead to discrimination?

• A) evaluating candidates based upon technical skills (30%) and interviews (70%)
• B) having the interviewers meet as a group to coordinate their interview scores
• C) weighting the answers to some questions over others
• D) all of these would likely lead to discrimination
• E) none of these would likely lead to discrimination

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Definitions:

Little Albert

The subject of a famous psychology experiment by John B. Watson, demonstrating how emotional responses could be conditioned in humans.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that pairs a neutral stimulus with a stimulus that elicits a reflexive response until the neutral stimulus alone elicits that response.

Observational Learning

A form of social learning where behaviors are learned by watching and imitating the actions of others.

Conditioned Taste-Aversion

Learning to avoid a food or drink because it has been associated with an illness or negative experience, even after only one exposure.