Ethics
This agency was created in 1992 to administer and enforce provisions relating to the standards of conduct for state officers and employees?
What is the Texas Ethics Commission?
A human value, which has remained intact throughout the centuries.
What is courage?
Acting on the basis of prejudice to make a difference in treatment or favor on a basis other than individual merit.
What is racism?
Penal Code charges concerning sexual harassment would be filed under these statutes.
What is Official oppression PC 39.03?
Deliberate or repeated sexual based behavior that is not welcomed, not asked for, not returned, or unwelcome sexual or gender based behavior.
What is sexual harassment?
A principal of right or good conduct or a body of such principals.
What is ethics?
Prolonged unrelieved stress also called cumulative stress. Prolonged unrelieved wear and tear results from too many demands.
What is chronic stress?
An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand & without knowledge of or examination of the facts.
What is prejudice?
Charges of misuse of government property will be filed under this state statute.
What is Abuse of Official Capacity PC 39.02?
Occurs when an employee is required to consent to unwelcome sexual advances to obtain employment opportunities or benefits.
What is Quid Pro Quo?
Safeguard public confidence in the integrity of government by avoiding the appearance of impropriety and conduct unbefitting a public official.
What is respectability?
Way of thinking and acting based on tradition. Learned behavior passed down from one generation to another.
What is culture?
The act of regarding one’s culture as the center of the universe and hence as the basis for all comparisons with other cultures.
What is Ethnocentrism?
“Idealism is incompatible with realism.”
What is a misconception?
Sexual harassment is illegal according to which federal law.
What is Title VII of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964?
The questions, "Is it fair? Is it legal? Will it stand up to public scrutiny?" are considered to be this.
What are ethical considerations?
Occurs when an employer or other employee subjects an employee to sexual innuendos, remarks and/or physical acts so offensive that they “alter the conditions of the employee’s employment and create an abusive work environment.
What is Hostile work environment?
An organized and relatively unchanging combination of personal knowledge and feelings about someone or something that influences him/her to behave in a certain way in regard to that person or thing.
What is attitude?
As public servants, we are expected to abide by standards of conduct established by the Texas Legislature, the Federal Government and these.
What are Department Policies?
Unwelcome sexual advances for sexual favors and verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature.
What is sexual harassment?
Ethics are standards of human conduct sometimes called this.
What are morals?
Affords a convenient grouping for people one is ignorant of.
What is a stereotype?
Refers to groups of people with common ancestry and physical characteristics.
What is race?
They are quickest to criticize when we fail to live up to the highest standards.
Who is the public?
They investigate sexual harassment allegations.
Who is Texas Workforce Commission?