Exam 6: Employee Selection

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is an example of what type of employment test?

It is much easier to measure what individuals can do than what they will do.

What is a key purpose of "name-blind" resumes?

Define the concepts of reliability and validity.

Which of these statements is a good description of content validity?

Abel scored high on an ability test used to hire him. He, however, turned out to be a poor employee. Which term refers to this outcome?

Conscientiousness refers to the degree to which someone is trusting, amiable, cooperative, and flexible.

If a work sample test includes major job functions and predicts job success, it has content validity.

Application forms should always require relevant dates, including date of birth.

Personality tests measure disposition and temperament.

Strategies for selecting managerial and technical people are relatively similar.

During an interview, Seema was asked: "Tell me about the last time you helped to train an employee." What is this an example of?

In most instances, employers can legally use polygraph tests to screen applicants.

What is a key drawback of values-based hiring?

If an organization's selection procedures yield comparable data over a period of time, the procedures are valid.

Giving applicants a clerical aptitude test and then tracking their performance one year later is an example of which of the following?

Measuring construct validity requires linking a psychological test to job performance.

In the clinical approach to decision making in employee selection, decision makers review all the data on the applicants.

In general, a criterion-related method of assessing selection test validity is preferred over other methods because it is based on empirical data.

Predictive and concurrent validity are determined by comparing test scores with supervisor performance ratings.