Question 1

What is one reason why SME ratings on job analyses tend to have low reliability?

Accepted Answer

A) SMEs tend to be poorly trained. 
B) Job crafting has led to more flexibility in jobs, so jobs that are supposed to be the same look quite different. 
C) SMEs fail to understand their jobs fully. 
D) SMEs prevent their attitudes from influencing their ratings of their own current job.

Question 2

A collection of positions similar enough to one another to share a common title is referred to as a(n):

Accepted Answer

A) element. 
B) task. 
C) hybrid. 
D) job.

Question 3

Liane writes a list of statements that describe what gardeners do and how they do it, such as "Designs landscaping" and "Plants trees." In this case, Liane is MOST LIKELY creating a:

Accepted Answer

A) job specification 
B) job competency 
C) job description 
D) job evaluation

Question 4

Fred is planning to conduct a job analysis of bus drivers and decides to survey incumbents to gather information about the job. This means he will be surveying:

Accepted Answer

A) customers who ride the buses. 
B) current bus drivers. 
C) the supervisors of current bus drivers. 
D) I/O psychologists who possess expertise on bus driving.

Question 5

Explain the relationship between elements, tasks, positions, and jobs.

Accepted Answer

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Question 6

Max learns that one position in his company is affected by changes in technology: Each time a new machine is designed, his employees will need additional training to do their jobs. In this case, we might indicate that these jobs are:

Accepted Answer

A) idiosyncratic. 
B) ideographic. 
C) dynamic. 
D) nomothetic.

Question 7

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using a worker-oriented approach to job analysis?

Accepted Answer

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Question 8

_____ delineate the KSAOs deemed necessary to perform the job and describe the people requirements.

Accepted Answer

A) Job specifications 
B) Job descriptions 
C) Job evaluations 
D) Elements

Question 9

Job analysis is the process of _____ a job.

Accepted Answer

A) developing 
B) defining 
C) adding 
D) eliminating

Question 10

What is one phenomenon that seems to affect SME job analysis ratings when the SME is an incumbent?

Accepted Answer

A) the self-serving bias 
B) the similar-to-me effect 
C) the actor-observer effect 
D) the defensive pessimism bias

Question 11

Data suggest that when a field becomes female-dominated:

Accepted Answer

A) there is more focus on interpersonal relations. 
B) the rate of pay tends to decrease. 
C) the rate of sexual harassment rises. 
D) there is less focus on advanced education.

Question 12

The _____ was developed by the Department of Labor using the Functional Job Analysis method.

Accepted Answer

A) Common-Metric Questionnaire 
B) Cross-Occupation Network 
C) Dictionary of Occupational Titles 
D) Job Element Method

Question 13

Objectives and criteria used to rate employees should be based on:

Accepted Answer

A) results from the Wonderlic Personnel Test. 
B) recommendations provided by a supervisor. 
C) results of a job analysis. 
D) benchmarks provided by executive management.

Question 14

The focus of the Common-Metric Questionnaire is on:

Accepted Answer

A) describing jobs at a level of difficulty that allows the descriptions to be compared across jobs. 
B) describing jobs in a highly specific manner to uncover only critical similarities. 
C) describing as many types of knowledge, skills, and abilities required for the job as possible. 
D) using a different rating scale for every job.

Question 15

The area of industrial psychology for which job analysis is most important is:

Accepted Answer

A) training. 
B) performance appraisal. 
C) selection and placement. 
D) job redesign.

Question 16

Which of these is a criticism of the task-oriented approach to job analysis?

Accepted Answer

A) The approach is too narrowly focused on the tasks for a particular job. 
B) The approach identifies too many similarities among jobs. 
C) The approach relies too heavily on incumbents' knowledge, skills, and abilities. 
D) Incumbents write inaccurate task statements.

Question 17

Which of these is the BEST description of a strategic job analysis?

Accepted Answer

A) a technique for researching jobs that helps CEOs determine which jobs are more strategically important 
B) a job analysis in which only the most key components of the job are recorded 
C) a process of collecting information about how a job is likely to evolve in the future 
D) a job analysis in which the goal is to reduce the number of jobs into the lowest number possible to get the work completed

Question 18

When Shakeem conducts a job analysis, he uses the information gained to categorize jobs into job families so that he can offer the same benefit package to employees within each job family. In this case, the job analysis will be helpful for:

Accepted Answer

A) job classification. 
B) job redesign. 
C) performance appraisal. 
D) placement.

Question 19

Job _____ involves categorizing jobs into families.

Accepted Answer

A) specification 
B) description 
C) classification 
D) placement

Question 20

What might be one reason that an organization might choose to pay someone more than is suggested by a job evaluation?

Accepted Answer

A) if there is a threat of a lawsuit 
B) when people are unwilling to take a job unless it is well compensated 
C) when workers have a family and will need the additional income 
D) when it is easy to find someone to take that position

Exam 3: Job Analysis