Exam 6: Employee Testing and Selection

Blue Bay Hotels is in the process of modifying the assessment methods the company uses to hire new employees.In the past,the hotel chain has been accused by minority organizations of violating EEO laws in its hiring practices.Which of the following applicant assessment methods would most likely have the LEAST adverse impact on minorities?

To use predictive validation,one administers the test to applicants before they are hired.The applicants are then hired using existing selection techniques but not the new tests in development.Later,job performance measures are compared to the test scores under development.

If a person scores a 70 on an intelligence test on one day and scores 110 when retested on another day,you might conclude that this test is ________.

There are five steps in the validation process beginning with analyzing the job and concluding with administering the test.

Which of the following is a graph that shows the relationship between test scores and job performance for a group of people?

How would an employer benefit from using both personality tests and situational tests when screening job applicants?

What is a management assessment center? What are some of the most common tasks conducted in management assessment centers?

According to experts,most people are hired for their qualifications and fired for their ________.

Employers most likely conduct background investigations and reference checks to verify a candidate's ________.

According to a survey conducted by the American Management Association,most employers who administer tests to applicants are measuring ________.

All of the following are examples of self-reported personality tests EXCEPT ________.

Typical simulated exercises used in management assessment centers include all of the following EXCEPT ________.

While some personality characteristics are associated with success in different types of jobs,which personality trait is most frequently associated with job performance in all jobs?

Which personality characteristic refers to the disposition to be imaginative,nonconforming,and unconventional?

House-Tree-Person and the Forer Structured Sentence Completion Test are examples of ________ tests.

Which selection tool is considered the LEAST useful by most HR managers?

________ represents a tendency to be sociable,assertive,and active.

A manager who gives a former employee a bad reference may be accused of ________ if the information is both false and harmful.

E-Verify is used by employers to ________.

Industrial psychologists often emphasize the "big five" personality dimensions in personnel testing.List and explain the meaning of the big five dimensions.How do personality traits correlate with job performance?