Exam 7: Selection Decisions and Personnel Law

Theresa works in a manufacturing plant where many of the male employees put up photographs of bikini-clad women in their work areas, and she is often groped by male employees. Her supervisor ignores her complaints, telling her to "take it as a compliment." This type of sexual harassment is known as:

How are predictors administered when the multiple hurdle approach to selection is applied?

Dr. Hawkins obtains a measure of applicant personality. Once applicants have been hired and have been in their positions for at least six months, Dr. Hawkins assesses their job performance. Dr. Hawkins is examining:

One way an organization can attract a pool of racially diverse applicants is to:

Which term describes the extent to which test scores obtained at one time account for variance in criteria obtained at a future time?

A recent Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action held that:

_____ are changes or exceptions made by an employer that would allow a qualified disabled person to successfully do the job.

Donnie's Shoe Shop looks at applicants' Facebook pages to see if applicants have posted any inappropriate or strange content. This would be an example of:

Mary is 55 years old, Jeff is 21 years old, and Jorge is 45 years old. All three work at a computer software firm and all were fired, replaced by three new 20-year-old employees. Which employees are covered under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act?

To empirically cross-validate a selection battery, one must:

If an accommodation for a disabled individual would result in significant difficulty or expense given an employer's size and financial resources, that accommodation is considered a(n):

Andersen Food Company has hired 30 out of 60 White applicants, and 10 out of 60 Black applicants. It calculates that the selection of Black applicants is about 33% the rate of White applicants. Which statement is true?

Alberto validated his selection battery on one sample, and finds that it predicts performance. He then applies this selection strategy onto a different sample to see if it still works. This process is known as:

If Tanya believes that a personality test will predict performance for both administrative assistants and filing clerks, she believes in:

Hasan is conducting a validity study on a selection battery and has taken a first step by collecting selection data from applicants, but is not using it to choose whom he hires. The type of study Hasan is conducting is referred to as:

RJ&C Consulting Company is hiring managers. Some of the tests it uses are quite cheap (such as cognitive tests). Some of them are very expensive (such as an assessment center). If the company wants to minimize the costs of its selection system, which selection approach should it use?

In examination of the decision accuracy of a selection battery, the number of applicants who were hired but who are not successful performers can be labeled as:

What is the difference between a disparate impact case and a disparate treatment case?

Validity coefficients will always be _____ in the original sample compared to a second sample used for cross-validation.

The CEO of an organization is concerned that the selection battery for top-level managers is not helpful in identifying the best candidates. She also worries that it costs much more than it should. The CEO's concerns are for: