Workplace Etiquette Answers

If something is new or unusual, most people’s first instinct will be to ______.

Simplified and inaccurate beliefs about groups of people are called ______.

Identification with a group based on shared characteristics, including skin color, place of origin, cultural ties, and language is called ______.

Your coworkers and your supervisor both deserve the same ______.

Bill explains that men and women approach many tasks in different ways. He explains that while their approaches are different, men and women should be judged on the quality of their work. Which principle is Bill demonstrating?

Most people reject what they don’t understand because ______.

There is only one copy machine at your office. You have to make 1000 copies of an expense report. After you begin copying, two other employees show up in the copy room. Each has to make only 10 copies each. What is the proper etiquette in this situation?

John from sales has just sent you an e-mail. He needs a decision made on the Johnson account as soon as possible. You can make the decision, but you feel like you’d like to ask your boss for her advice. Unfortunately, she is in a business meeting, and the decision needs to be made very soon. You decide to take the initiative and ______.

It is impossible for those who have good intentions to have a cultural misunderstanding.

Which of these rules of etiquette exists at every workplace?

In dangerous professions like law enforcement and construction, women are ______.

The harm of stereotypes are likely to be aggravated in ________.

An arbiter is consulted when ______.

It is possible to succeed in practicing business etiquette by simply ______.

One way to overcome generational distinctions is to ______.