Exam 6: Employee Selection

The federal government relies extensively on employment testing in the selection process.

Scenario 6.1 Canadian Fasteners is an Ottawa-based packing firm that packages nuts, bolts, and screws for various Canadian furniture companies. The firm started operations in 2003 with 13 employees and has grown to over 150 employees today. Employees are paid hourly rates with benefits similar to other packing firms across Ontario. The work does not need previous experience. Canadian Fasteners has been struggling to recruit and hire the right employees to take the company into the new millennium. Part of the problem is that workers, especially floor workers, are hired by word of mouth with no formal application process or even an interview. As a result, the company faces a high turnover rate and spends valuable time training new employees who may not have the prerequisite skills to effectively do the job in the first place. -Refer to Scenario 6.1. Assume Canadian Fasteners designates a person to review the applications and conduct the interviews. Which of the following is NOT helpful to the interviewer?

When trying to achieve person-organization fit, managers will pass up potential employees who don't embrace the values of the company even if they have excellent job skills.

What type of interview allows the applicant the maximum amount of freedom in determining the course of discussion?

Because of the physical differences between the genders, physical ability tests should be carefully validated on the basis on the essential functions of the job.

Video interviews have the advantages of speed and cost-effectiveness.

A situational interview asks the applicant what he or she actually did in a given situation.

The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) is an example of a cognitive ability test.

Criterion-related validity is the extent to which a selection tool predicts or correlates with important elements of work behaviour.

Why would an organization use an integrity test?

The "Big Five" factors are related to what type of employment tests?

What type of employment test measures "general intelligence"?

The premise of a behavioural interview is that "past performance is the best predictor of future performance."

HRM specialists have found that panel interviews lead to higher reliability and faster decision times than one-to-one interviews.

Which of the following best describes the use of reference checks?

Personality tests measure such things as agreeableness, extroversion, and openness to experience.

The HR manager and the training manager separately interviewed five applicants for a position. They both ended scoring the five of them very similarly. What is this result an example of?

Which of the following terms refers to the extent to which good performance on an employment selection test correlates with high marks on a performance review?

Organization Beta is hiring 20 new staff for front-line positions. The interview the company is using involves giving the applicant hypothetical incidents and asking how he or she would respond. What is this type of interview called?

A manager is examining the number of applicants for a job compared to the number of people needed to be hired. What is this figure called?