Chapter 10

Question 1

Diversity-Validity Dilemma

Answer 1

Refers to contradictions between increasing diversity and the realities of employment anti-discrimination law, given existing racio-ethnic and sex differences on many valid selection procedures

Question 2

Pipeline problem

Answer 2

Problem in the recruitment. Professionals believe their hiring procedures are gender- and race-neutral, but they define the pipeline narrowly

Question 3

Race discrimination

Answer 3

Differential treatment based on race or ethnicity rather than job-related skills and abilities, especially when behavior or employment decisions negatively impact the target of discrimination

Question 4

Institutional racism

Answer 4

A system or structure of assumptions, procedures, norms and regulations that disadvantages a group based on color, race or ethnicity

Question 5

Modern/ symbolic racism

Answer 5

This view supports denigration of blacks as a group because they do not follow traditional American values such as hard work (Racism does not exist)

Question 6

Implicit bias

Answer 6

An unconscious and automatic respons based on previous experience and implying favorable or unfavorable emotional, cognitive or behavioral reactions towards an attitude object