Exam 6: Employee Selection

Video interviews have the advantages of speed and cost-effectiveness.

A manager is examining the number of applicants for a job compared to the number of people needed to be hired.What is this figure called?

Which of the following is a key basis for the use of biodata tests?

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?

Which of the following is the most objective approach in making employee selection decisions?

What is a key reason to ensure that selection procedures are valid?

Measuring KSAOs of an applicant against the competencies required for the job is called person-organization fit.

Which of the following best describes the use of reference checks?

Six months ago,Organization A used a new selection system to hire 100 front-line staff members.With six months of performance data in hand,Organization A is interested in determining if its new selection system predicts performance on the job.What is the best way to describe this process?

What is currently the most effective way to assess a person's honesty during the selection process?

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

Concurrent validity involves testing applicants and obtaining criterion data after they have been on the job for some indefinite period.

Which of the following types of tests measure dispositional characteristics such as extroversion,inquisitiveness,and dependability?

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

Criterion-related validity is the extent to which a selection tool predicts or correlates with important elements of work behaviour.

According to many experts,what are cognitive ability tests are connected to?

Human rights legislation severely limits the types of medical inquiries and examinations that employers may use.

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

Organization Omega is hiring 20 new front-line employees.The company is using an interview that involves three people taking turns asking questions and then pooling their scores of the responses.What is this type of interview called?

The HR manager and the training manager separately interviewed five applicants for a position.They both ended scoring the five of them very similarly.What is this result an example of?