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True or False Questions 1-20
1. Equal employment opportunity ensures that employment decisions are made without regard to legally protected attributes such as race.
True or False
2. Women, in contrast to men, tend to use communication to connect with others and build relationships.
True or False
3. Bill, a salesperson at Windows Plus, is ethnocentric because he believes the sales division is superior to the other departments in the organization.
True or False
4. Affirmative action programs seek to remedy past discrimination by implementing proactive steps based on race or gender to prevent current or future discrimination.
True or False
5. If a country focuses on past and present values, while respecting traditions and fulfilling social obligations, it is said to have a short-term orientation.
True or False
6. In countries like Australia where power distance is low, decisions will be made by superiors who have seniority and high status.
True or False
7. Ethnocentrism tends to be inconsistent with all individuals.
True or False
8. Having a diverse workforce doesn't automatically produce positive outcomes.
True or False
9. Organizations should provide transition counseling to employees and their families both before and after an assignment outside the home country as a strategy for addressing cross-cultural issues.
True or False
10. One successful strategy for managing organizational diversity effectively is ensuring that diversity is a bottom-up effort.
True or False
11. Valuing diversity and managing diversity are similar phenomena as both involve actively supervising, coordinating, and directing the diversity individuals bring to an organization.
True or False
12. An individual's personality and family situation are components of the individual's surface-level diversity.
True or False
13. Martha admits that she has biases and prejudices. To improve her ability to understand others, she must analyze her feelings and develop plans for changing them.
True or False
14. In countries with high uncertainty avoidance, people are expressive, entrepreneurship is encouraged, and citizens change jobs frequently.
True or False
15. Unlike men, women tend to use communication to request action.
True or False
16. Diverse teams are less likely to be best matched with tasks involving innovation and exploration of new opportunities.
True or False
17. Diversity can be defined as any attribute relevant to an individual that creates or reinforces a perception that he or she is different from another individual.
True or False
18. Establishing superior customer service is a positive outcome of effectively managing diversity.
True or False
19. Diversity is best understood and managed within an open organizational culture.
True or False
20. The global mindset comprises intellectual capital, psychological capital, and social capital.
True or False