Exam 14: Workplace Law: Harassment, Discrimination, and Fairness

Kitty has been approached by her boss several times with propositions to ensure her job promotion if she agreed to a sexual relationship with him. According to Catharine MacKinnon's typology, this type of sexual pestering is called:

When men are victimized by harassment, the harassing behavior is more likely to come:

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) was established to enforce Title VII (Civil Rights Act of 1964). This commission states that employers have an obligation to maintain a work environment that is free from all of the following practices, EXCEPT:

How people actually think and behave is of utmost importance to psychologists. This is particularly true when considering how fairness is assessed. For example, Francisco worked twice as many hours as Ben did and so Francisco got paid twice what Ben got paid. This type of relationship between contributions to an effort and the obtained rewards refers to:

Anika has endured a regular barrage of sexist jokes and ridicule from some male colleagues in her predominantly male engineering department. She has been trying to ignore this harassment and tell herself that she does not care, that she will just focus on her work performance. This type of coping is referred to as:

There are some practices that result in discrimination but may not look discriminatory at first glance. If a company only hires family members and family friends, it may systematically exclude some racial or ethnic groups inadvertently. This type of situation results in a category of discrimination called:

Cassandra is among very few women who work in construction. She has been targeted by multiple male co-workers who keep telling her crude sexual jokes, pinching her buttocks, and exposing themselves to her as a form of "fun" during lunch breaks. In Catharine MacKinnon's typology, this type of sexual harassment is referred to as:

Studies conducted on desegregation after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954 found that desegregation:

Based on MacKinnon's typology, the type of unwelcome sexual advances in the form of an explicit exchange, where a threat against a job or promotion is made unless the victim complies sexually, is called:

Under current law, plaintiffs in sexual harassment cases must prove that _____ occurred and resulted in _____.

What do studies show about racism in the United States? How does modern-era racism differ from the older forms of racism?

The Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education resulted in massive _____, which led to a(n) _____, according to a comprehensive review of research.

Psychologists' recommendations for reducing the incidence of sexual harassment at work include all of the following, EXCEPT:

What is psychological injury as it applies to sexual harassment? Is a proof of injury required in sexual harassment cases? What standards are currently applied in such cases, according to the Supreme Court decisions?

One of the norms of distributive justice is _____, which is the concept that rewards are to be distributed according to each individual's contributions to the group.

Studies have shown that the most likely targets of harassment are:

Studies show that in-person interviews conducted _____ are often systematically biased against minorities, women, and the elderly. A better approach, and a more predictive one, is to conduct _____.

The sexual discrimination law is an amendment to:

Sexually harassing behaviors may be attributed to a range of motives, some of which are related to the job type. For example, positions considered to be traditionally held by women may contribute to harassment because they elicit protectiveness and _____. Conversely, for women in jobs historically held by men, the harassment is linked to _____ a female coworker.

When determining whether a particular behavior is offensive, a judgment needs to be made as to whether others in the same situation would have considered the environment as hostile. This standard is referred to as the: