Managing Diversity 3rd Edition By Barak – Test Bank

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Managing Diversity 3rd Edition By Barak – Test Bank

Chapter 5: Socioeconomic Transitions: The New Realities of the Global Workforce

Multiple Choice

1. Migration of working-age people has traditionally contributed to __________ such imbalances in labor demand and supply, and is still a solution for many in developing countries.

1. Exacerbating
2. Resolving
3. Questioning
4. Perpetuating

Ans:  B

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1. Migration of workers or migration of employers, and the resulting encounter of people from different places with different cultures and capabilities, is an important contributor to _______________.

1. Socioeconomic Diversity
2. Gender Diversity
3. Age Diversity
4. Workplace Diversity

Ans:  D

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1. International migrants tend to head for countries with which they share

1. Traditional relationships
2. Historic relationships
3. Geographic proximity
4. All of the above

Ans:  D

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1. Globalization is allowing countries to _________ many of their employers, particularly those in labor-intensive, low-paying industries that make a transportable product.

1. Retain
2. Import
3. Export
4. Retire early

Ans:  C

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1. The proportion of foreign or foreign-born workers grew in European countries that are primary destinations for people from neighboring countries in _____________.

1. Asia
2. Eastern Europe
3. United Nations
4. All of the above

Ans:  B

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1. Which oil rich, labor-poor regions have been the most notable recipients of worker migrants, especially from a wide range of Asian countries?

1. South Africa
2. Middle East
3. Southeast Asia
4. European Union

Ans: B

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1. Population trends are making culturally based workforce diversity a fact of life for virtually all _______________.

1. Undeveloped Countries
2. Developed Countries
3. Countries in Europe
4. All of the above

Ans:  B

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1. The occupational patterning of migrants is _________ in broad categories if both sides of the migration equation are considered.

1. Predictable
2. Unpredictable
3. Easily tracked
4. Never easily tracked

Ans:  A

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1. Jobs that are _____ paying and ____ status in an industrialized country can be exported as _____ paying and _____ status to developing companies.

1. Low; Low; High; High
2. Low; High; Low; High
3. High; Low; High; Low
4. High; High; Low; Low

Ans:  A

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1. The United Nations estimated that between 2005 and 2010 for the first time the growth rate of the migrant stock (meaning all migrants, not just workers) for less-developed regions ____________ the rate for more-developed regions.

1. Equaled
2. Surpassed
3. Fell behind
4. Quadrupled

Ans:  B

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1. _______________ within the European Union (EU) is relatively low, as evidenced by the general reluctance of most people to migrate for work, given alternative, albeit less attractive opportunities at home.

1. Inter-country mobility
2. Cross-border mobility
3. Full-time employment
4. Two-job employment

Ans:  B

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