Student Discussion Guide, Volume 2

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Page 11 - ... at a rate less than the rate at which he pays wages to employees of the opposite sex in such establishment for equal work on jobs the performance of which requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and which are performed under similar working conditions...
Page 10 - employer" means a person engaged in an industry affecting commerce who has fifteen or more employees for each working day in each of twenty or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year, and any agent of such a person, but such term does not include...
Page 11 - Gate Keeping; Helping to keep communication channels open; facilitating the participation of others; suggesting procedures that permit sharing remarks. 3. Encouraging: Being friendly, warm, and responsive to others; indicating by facial expression or remark the acceptance of others
Page 11 - Pulling together related ideas; restating suggestions after the group has discussed them; offering a decision or conclusion for the group to accept or reject. 6. Consensus testing: Sending up trial balloons...
Page 11 - Act of 1964 forbids employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, religion or national origin.
Page 14 - Blocking: interfering with the progress of the group by going off on a tangent, citing personal experiences unrelated to the problem, arguing too much on a point, rejecting ideas without consideration...
Page 12 - Tentatively asking for group opinions in order to find out if the group is nearing consensus on a decision, sending up trial balloons to test group opinions.
Page 10 - Initiating: Proposing tasks or goals: defining a group problem; suggesting a procedure or ideas for solving a problem.
Page 11 - Offering facts; providing relevant information about group concern; stating a belief about a matter before the group; giving suggestions and ideas. 4. Clarifying and elaborating: Interpreting ideas or suggestions; clearing up confusions; defining terms; indicating alternatives and issues before the group; building on others
Page 27 - Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin by some recipients of financial assistance from SBA.

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