A county adopted a flexible affirmative action program with no specific quotas, but with the purpose of getting more women in certain positions in which there were no women. To accomplish its goal, the County hired a qualified woman instead of a man who had scored higher on a valid aptitude test. The man sued arguing the program was discriminatory. You would expect the Supreme Court held that
this action was:
a. a legitimate affirmative action program
b. legal if the county could demonstrate that the woman was better qualified than the man c. legal only if the county adopted a program with specific clearly specified quotas
d. illegal because the affirmative action program had not been approved by the EEOC
e. illegal because of reverse sex discrimination
a
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A bank lends a firm $1,000,000 for one year at 12 percent on a discounted basis and requires compensating balances of 10 percent of the face value of the loan. The effective annual interest rate associated with this loan is ________
A) 12 percent B) 13.3 percent C) 13.6 percent D) 15.4 percent
Describe two types of annuities
What will be an ideal response?
Taveen, the production manager at Wire Express, has noticed that one of his machines seems to stall out briefly toward the end of a run. He is wondering whether this stalling is affecting the width of the wire product. He creates several control charts
and notices about 11 consecutive points above the centerline and three points beyond two standard deviations from the centerline. How should Taveen react?
Anything which affects the functioning of an organization is considered to be an environment
Indicate whether the statement is true or false