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Professional Standards and Ethics Flashcards

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  1. An employee confides in a DEI practitioner about experiencing harassment by a manager but asks that it stay secret. What is the most ethical response?

    Answer: Explain upfront the limits of confidentiality and any obligation to report harassment to HR

    Ethical practice requires being transparent about confidentiality limits, since organizations often must act once harassment is disclosed to a responsible party.

  2. When reporting results of an employee engagement survey broken down by demographic group, what practice best protects respondent anonymity?

    Answer: Suppress results for groups below a minimum respondent threshold

    Minimum group-size thresholds (often 5–10 respondents) prevent individuals from being identified through small-group results.

  3. A DEI consultant is asked to evaluate a vendor diversity program that includes a company owned by the consultant's spouse. What should the consultant do?

    Answer: Disclose the conflict of interest and recuse from evaluating that vendor

    Disclosing and recusing from conflicts of interest preserves the integrity and credibility of the evaluation.

  4. Which statement about collecting employee self-identification data (e.g., race, disability, veteran status) reflects ethical and legal best practice?

    Answer: Disclosure should be voluntary and the data stored separately from personnel decisions

    Self-ID must be voluntary, and the data should be kept confidential and separate from decisions about individual employees.

  5. A DEI professional is asked to deliver training on a specialized legal topic, such as ADA accommodation case law, outside their expertise. What is the most ethical course of action?

    Answer: Decline or partner with a qualified expert such as employment counsel

    Practicing within one's boundaries of competence means referring or collaborating when a topic requires specialized expertise.

  6. Under U.S. federal law, which practice would most likely be unlawful in employment decisions?

    Answer: Setting a hard quota requiring a fixed number of hires from a specific racial group

    Title VII prohibits making employment decisions based on race, so rigid racial quotas in hiring are unlawful.

  7. What is the primary ethical concern with 'performative allyship' in an organization's DEI efforts?

    Answer: Public statements are not matched by meaningful action, eroding trust

    Performative allyship signals support without substantive change, which undermines credibility and trust among employees.