What relationship does power have to workplace communication?
a.People with power are more sensitive to the speech of their subordinates than those who have less power
b.Supervisors have more power and are better at communicating with subordinates than subordinates are in communicating with superiors
c.Women are better communicators, regardless of their workplace status and power
d.Power is one of the situational factors that affects speech style
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When managers choose protégés to mentor, they tend to choose those
a.who are the same gender and ethnic background as they are
b.whose educational background is most impressive
c.who have made impressive presentations in the job situation
d.who perform best in job interviews
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When analyzing who holds blue-collar jobs,
a. African American and Hispanic American women are more likely to have such jobs than European American women.
b. African American women are more likely to have such jobs than Hispanic American women.
c. young women are more likely to have such jobs than older women.
d. women are more likely to hold skilled crafts jobs than are men.
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What is the status of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 with regard to women’s college athletics?
a. A series of U. S. Supreme Court decisions has eroded the effectiveness of the law, and colleges are no longer obligated to fund women’s athletics.
b. Critics have given up in trying to overturn the law, and women’s athletics now receive more dollars than men’s athletics.
c. Funding for women’s sports participation has increased but not to the level of funding for men’s athletics.
d. The controversies over this law were settled in the 1980s, and universities have had to comply by offering equitable funding for women’s athletics since that time.
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According to the National Health and Social Life Survey, media portrayals of a wide variety of sexual activities with many partners
a. is accurate for single persons but not for married ones.
b. is accurate for married persons but not for single ones.
c. is accurate for both married and single people.
d. is not accurate for most adults in the U.S.
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A study of attitudes toward mathematics of children around the world showed that
a. children tend to evaluate mathematics as difficult and not very interesting.
b. children in Europe evaluated mathematics as interesting, but students in the U. S. did not.
c. children in Asia evaluated mathematics as not difficult but not interesting.
d. younger children gave more negative evaluations than older children and adolescents.
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Adoption of the male or female gender role is similar to
a. learning a part to play from a script.
b. internalizing the trauma associated with gender identity development.
c. reformulating the meaning of masculinity and femininity on an individual level.
d. restructuring the critical elements of gender-related behaviors that each child observes.
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Which of the following best describes patterns of stereotyping?
a. Men stereotype more than women, and women are the targets of the most severe stereotyping.
b. Men stereotype more than women, and men are the targets of the most severe stereotyping.
c. Women stereotype more than men, and women are the targets of the most severe stereotyping.
d. Women stereotype more than men, and men are the targets of the most severe stereotyping.
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