Exam 8: Selecting Effective Employees

At a basic level,all selection programs attempt to identify the applicants who have the highest chance of:

Most good-faith drug testing programs will be legally acceptable if the organization has taken four steps.What are they?

Complex applicant selection systems are most often found in larger organizations.

What is the difference between the Behavioral Description Interview (BDI)and the Situational Interview (SI)?

Objections have been raised to the use of the polygraph in personnel selection for all of the following reasons except:

Identify three things upon which the choice of an employee selection test will be based.

If you were using a measuring tape you believed to marked in inches but was improperly calibrated to centimeters,this would be an issue with _______.

The ADEA prohibits _____________.

In structurally complex organizations with many job titles but very few occupants,the number of years needed to pay back the money invested in a complex selection system almost always justifies its initial expense

The selection system must be capable of __________________.

An HR specialist should be familiar with all of the following types of validity except:

The _______________ is a comprehensive paper-and-pencil test that generates two scores: the verbal score and the performance score.

Should organizations implement policies that require that all references be neutral?

To be legal,educational standards must be related to successful performance of the job.

_______________ addresses the questions of what a test measured and how well it measured it.

At the present time,the legal status surrounding reference-checking and providing recommendations ____________.

All of the following are categories of information typically used to make hiring selection decisions except:

All of the following are errors that can occur in the employment interview except:

Viability refers to how stable or repeatable a measurement is over a variety of testing conditions.

Hiring on the basis of height or physical appearance is illegal unless the job involves tasks that specifically require the characteristic.