Question

At Abendreg, a multinational law firm, only English-speaking trainers are given the opportunity to impart training to employees in different countries. This is because the company has most of its branches in English-speaking countries, while only three of its branches are in countries where English is not an official language. In the context of employment discrimination, this scenario best illustrates _____.

adverse impact
minority domination
disparate treatment
affirmative action

Answer 1

Adverse impact

Step-by-step explanation:

Adverse impact is the unpleasant effect of a bias segmentation of a particular group during selection procedures such as employment, hiring, training, layoff or appraisal processes. Adverse impact in a work place processes may give rise to discrimination directed to a particular group base on a given attributes such as qualifications, ability, age, gender etc.

In this question, the company has most of its branches in English-speaking countries hence they only gave preferences to English-speaking trainers to impart training to employees in different countries