Give examples of how United States laws have an impact on hiring and retaining personnel
What will be an ideal response?
* The Equal Pay Act of 1963 prohibits sex discrimination in the payment of wages; equal jobs require equal pay regardless of gender.
* Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) prohibits discrimination based on race, color, sex, or national origin; this law also created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which was empowered to investigate charges of job discrimination.
* Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 extended discrimination protection on the basis of age to workers over the age of 40.
* The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 prohibits discrimination against qualified job applicants with disabilities and requires employers to make "reasonable accommodations" for these workers.
* The Civil Rights Act of 1991 said results of employment tests cannot be adjusted on the basis of race (race-norming) or gender to compensate for racial and gender differences in testing.
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According to Thomas and Chess, 40 percent of children display the most common type of temperament, which is the __________ temperament
a. easy b. difficult c. slow-to-warm-up d. generic
A generally accepted taxonomy of traits:
a. would actually hinder communication among investigators b. would reassure personality psychologists that they had not inadvertently omitted consideration of some important trait in their study of some problem c. would permit investigators to predict accurately all of our behavior d. would hinder progress in understanding human personality