Exam 4: Criterion Measurement

A manager decides to use days missed as a measure of performance. However, at the end of the year, he finds that only a few employees in the entire organization have missed a day at work. Because almost everyone has the same score on this measure of performance, it lacks:

What is one limitation of objective criteria, as mentioned in the textbook?

Evaluative standards that can be used as yardsticks for measuring an employee's success of failure are generally known as:

Having a particularly unreliable measure of performance can increase:

Briefly identify and describe three of Bernardin and Beatty's (1984) criteria for the criteria, as discussed in the textbook.

Someone is measuring the performance of dog grooming professionals by using supervisor ratings. He or she finds that when the supervisors rate the groomers' performance, the ratings are biased because higher ratings are given to groomers who are well liked, regardless of their actual job performance. The supervisors' bias has resulted in:

All aspects of performance that describe success on the job, although in actuality they can never be completely defined and measured, are known as the:

Describe the criterion problem and state why it is troubling for I/O psychologists.

According to Campbell's model of job performance, which of these is the BEST example of job-specific task proficiency?

What is the major weakness of subjective criteria for performance?

Which of these is NOT an example of a counterproductive behavior?

The amount of overlap between the actual criterion and the ultimate criterion is known as criterion _____:

Spending extra time helping a coworker is an example of _____; stealing paper from a company is an example of _____.

Most I/O psychologists recognize that performance is multifaceted; however, organizations need to make decisions based on one score or number. What are two solutions to this problem?

What is one advantage and one disadvantage of using a subjective criterion to measure performance?

A law firm uses law school GPA and work experience to determine if a law school graduate should be hired. When making hiring decisions, a law school graduate's GPA is weighted 80% and work experience is weighted only 20%. This is an example of a(n) _____ composite criterion.

Research has indicated that in terms of organizational citizenship behaviors and counterproductive work behaviors:

An I/O psychologist interested in measuring performance decides to use supervisor ratings. Supervisor ratings are an example of a(n):

Research has demonstrated that an employee who has strong performance in the first six months on the job may not have very strong performance for the next six months on the job. This finding supports the existence of:

Which of these would be an example of an objective criterion?