Exam 6: Employee Selection

State courts have ruled that companies can be held liable for ___________ if they fail to do adequate background checks.

Openness to experience refers to the degree to which someone is insightful,creative,artistic,and curious.

All of the following questions may be considered appropriate during an interview except:

The purposes served by application forms include all of the following except:

Individuals have a legal right to examine letters of reference about them (unless they waive the right to do so).

Regardless of the selection methods used,it is essential that the selection procedure be:

In highly structured interviews,the interviewer determines the course that the interview will follow as each question is asked.

____ require(s)the applicant to perform tasks that are actually a part of the work required on the job.

A validity coefficient of 0.00 indicates a complete absence of relationship between the predictor and criterion data.

Regarding credit reports:

Reliability refers to the extent to which two methods yield similar results,but not to the agreement between two or more raters.

If two or more methods yield consistent results,the selection procedure can be described as:

A type of interview that allows the firm to immediately compare answers to the ideal candidate or profile without the problems of impression management experienced in face-to-face meetings is:

Since the passage of the Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988:

Because of legislation prohibiting their use except in special occupations,use of lie detectors in private firms is extremely low.

Which of the following is an appropriate interview question?

If the data upon which selection decisions are not stable or consistent:

Firms that operate in more than one state can easily develop one form to use in all locations.

What is usually the first step in the selection process?

It is inappropriate to ask men if they are married or have children.