EOAC 20-1 DEOMI QUIZ 4 WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS
Diversity is Critical to Readiness - Answers -(Government Accountability Office GAO
published a report titled GAO-05-90)
High performing Organizations:
1. Foster a work environment in which people are enabled and motivated to contribute
to mission accomplishments
2. provide both accountability and fairness of all employees
3. Inclusive, draws on employee strengths
- current combat missions and terrorism operate among diverse cultures
- increases the need for specialized talent
- increased use of collaborative work structures
Harrassment - Answers -Behavior that is unwelcome or offensive to a reasonable
person, whether oral, written, or physical, that creates an intimidating, hostile, or
offensive environment
Examples of Harrassment - Answers -- electronic communications, including social
media, other forms of communication, and in person
- includes offensive jokes, epithets, ridicule or mockery, insults or put-downs, displays of
offensive objects or imagery, stereotyping, intimidating acts, veiled threats of violence,
threatening or provoking remarks, racial or other slurs, derogatory remarks about a
persons accent, or displays of racially offensive symbols
- Activities or actions undertaken for a proper military or governmental purpose, such as
combat survival training, are NOT considered harassment
All service members must: - Answers -Foster a culture and work environment free from
harrassment
Discriminatory Harrassment - Answers -Unwelcome conduct based on race, color,
religion, sex (including gender identity), National origin, or sexual orientation
Sexual Harrassment - Answers -Conduct that involves unwelcome sexual advances,
requests for sexual favors, and deliberate or repeated offensive comments or gestures
of a sexual nature
,Bullying - Answers -A form of harrassment that includes acts of aggression by service
members or DoD civilian employees, with a nexus to military service, with the intent of
harming a service member either physically or psychologically, without a proper military
or other governmental purpose
Examples of Bullying: - Answers -- may involve singling out an individual from his or her
coworkers, or unit, for ridicule because he or she is considered different or weak. It
often involves an imbalance of power between the aggressor and the victim
- can be conducted through the use of electronic devices or communications and by
other means including social media as well as in person
-Exclusion
Hazing - Answers -Conduct through which service members or DoD employees, without
a proper military or governmental purpose but with a nexus to military service, physically
or psychologically injures or creates a risk of physical or psychological injury to service
members for the purpose of initiation into, admission into, affiliation with, change in
status or position within, or as a condition for continued membership in any military or
DoD civilian organization.
Can be done with the use of electronic devices or communications and by other means
including social media as well as in person.
- Initiation / Inclusion
Retaliation - Answers -Encompasses illegal, impermissible, or hostile actions taken by a
service member's chain of command, peers, or coworkers as a result of making or being
suspected of making a protected communication in accordance with DoDD 7050.06
(Military Whistleblower Protection).
Examples of Retaliation: - Answers -Retaliation for reporting a criminal offense can
occur in several ways, including reprisal. Investigation of complaints of non-criminal
retaliatory actions other than reprisal will be processed within service regulations.
Ostracism, maltreatment, and criminal acts for a retaliatory purpose in connection with
an alleged sex-related offense or sexual harrassment; or for performance of duties
concerning an alleged sex-related offense or sexual harrassment.
Reprisal - Answers -Taking or threatening to take an unfavorable personnel action, or
withholding or threatening to withhold a favorable personnel action, for making,
preparing to make, or being perceived as making or preparing to make a protected
communication.
Ostracized, affecting the career (ex. evaluation), condition of employment
, Behavioral Elements Associated with Harrassment - Answers -Any conduct whereby a
Service member or DoD employee who:
- knowingly, recklessly, or intentionally
- without proper authority
- with a nexus to military service (and)
- engages in conduct that is unwelcome or offensive to a reasonable person
Behavioral Elements Associated with Discriminatory Harrassment - Answers -Any
conduct whereby a Service member or DoD employee who:
- knowingly, recklessly, or intentionally
- without proper authority
- with a nexus to military service (and)
- engages in conduct that is adversely or differently based on race, color, national origin,
religion, sex (including gender identity), or sexual orientation
Behavioral Elements Associated with Bullying - Answers -Any conduct whereby a
Service member or DoD employee who:
- knowingly, recklessly, or intentionally
- without proper authority with a nexus to military service
- excludes or rejects a Service member or members
- through cruel, abusive, humiliating, oppressive, demeaning, or harmful behavior, which
- results in diminishing the member's dignity, position, or status
Types of Harrassment - Answers -1. Discriminatory Harrassment
2. Sexual Harrassment
3. Bullying
4. Hazing
5. Retaliation
6. Reprisal
Behavioral Elements Associated with Hazing - Answers -Any conduct whereby a
Service member or DoD employee who:
- knowingly, recklessly, or intentionally
- without proper authority with a nexus to military service
- cause a Service member or members, regardless of Service or rank, to suffer
physically or psychologically or be exposed to any activity
- which is cruel, abusive, humiliating, oppressive, demeaning, harmful, or creates a risk
of physical or psychological injury. (Initiation)
Reasonable Person Standard: Objective Portion - Answers -How would a reasonable
person under similar circumstances react or be affected by such behavior