An affirmative action program includes such things as

• A. Providing diversity training for all staff
• B. Establishing no policies on hiring
• C. Promoting workers to supervisory positions regardless of performance
• D. Forbidding discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin

Answer: (C)

Affirmative action focuses on actively widening opportunities and representation for groups that have been historically excluded by taking proactive steps to create leadership and advancement chances.

Promoting workers to supervisory positions regardless of performance fits that proactive, opportunity-creating approach. It reflects an effort to ensure underrepresented employees gain access to leadership roles as part of correcting past imbalances, even if it deviates from the usual merit-only progression in some contexts.

Other options describe important workplace concepts but do not embody the proactive leadership-upgrade impulse characteristic of affirmative action: diversity training is supportive but not itself about advancing individuals into supervisory roles; having no hiring policies is simply nonresponsive; forbidding discrimination is essential law and policy but is not an affirmative-action program element per se.