Metrics, Analytics & Compliance Flashcards

A federal contractor's affirmative action plan shows women are 22% of incumbents in a job group but 35% of qualified availability. What must the plan include?

Answer: A placement goal for women in that job group

Under Executive Order 11246 AAP regulations, underutilization triggers placement goals, which are targets and not quotas.

Which federal agency enforces affirmative action obligations for federal contractors under VEVRAA and Section 503?

Answer: Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP)

OFCCP, part of the Department of Labor, enforces contractor affirmative action and nondiscrimination obligations.

An inclusion survey shows high overall scores, but the scores for LGBTQ+ employees are 18 points lower. What is the best next analytic step?

Answer: Disaggregate further and run focus groups to find the drivers of the gap

Disaggregation plus qualitative follow-up uncovers the causes that aggregate scores hide.

Which is a LEADING indicator of future diversity in leadership?

Answer: Diversity of the high-potential and succession pipeline

Pipeline composition predicts future leadership demographics, while current representation is a lagging measure.

Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (Title I), what is the minimum employer size for coverage?

Answer: 15 employees

ADA Title I applies to employers with 15 or more employees, the same threshold as Title VII.

A company calculates DEI program ROI by comparing reduced turnover costs to program spending. What is the main limitation of this approach?

Answer: It can miss attribution issues and benefits that are hard to measure, such as innovation

Narrow ROI models struggle to isolate the program's causal effect and leave out intangible value.

Employee self-identification of race and ethnicity for the EEO-1 report should be handled how?

Answer: Voluntary, stored separately from performance decisions, and kept confidential

Self-ID is voluntary and confidential, and visual identification by the employer is only a fallback when an employee declines.