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23 Cards in this Set
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Which of the following is thought to be the cornerstone of personnel selection?
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Job analysis
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Your text identifies eight factors that contribute to the poor reliability and validity of the interview process. Which factor is related to why there is no relationship between interview length and outcome?
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Primacy effect
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Direct mail recruiting works best for positions involving:
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specialized skills
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Gandy and Dye (1989) believe that proper biodata items must:
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(ALL)
be job related deal with events under a person's control have answers that are verifiable |
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Which of the following is the least useful predictor of future performance?
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Interest inventories
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____ are legal and scores on these tests are often compared to self-admissions of theft and the amount of goods lost by an organization.
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Pencil-paper integrity tests
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If a police applicant is asked questions about her favorite hobbies and religious beliefs, she may feel the test is not valid. In this case, her impression demonstrates the importance of ____ validity.
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face
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____ is the basis for validity generalization.
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Meta-analysis
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Which of the following sources contain reliability and validity information on various tests?
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Mental Measurements Yearbook
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A selection test is most likely to be considered unfair by the courts if using the test results in:
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adverse impact and the test is not valid
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Even though a test is both reliable and valid, it is not necessarily useful. The ____ were/was developed to determine the amount of money that an organization would save if it used a particular test to select employees.
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Brogden-Cronbach-Gleser utility formula
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An employee's ratings on the dimension of initiative are highly correlated with all of the other performance appraisal dimensions (e.g., cooperation, job accomplishment, job knowledge). Which type of rating error may be occurring?
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Halo error
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According to your text, a performance appraisal instrument focuses on many areas. Which of the following is NOT one of the areas listed in your text?
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Cognition
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Which of the following rating scales have been most criticized because of their susceptibility to rating errors such as halo and leniency?
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Graphic rating scale
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Quality of work is usually measured in terms of ____, which are defined as deviations from a standard.
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errors
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When peer ratings are used, research has found that high performers evaluate their peers ____ low performers.
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more strictly than
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Self-appraisals of performance appear to be most accurate when the purpose of the self-appraisal is for:
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research
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Meta-analysis results indicate that objective and subjective measures of performance:
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are slightly correlated (r = .39)
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Which of the following training methods requires trainees to discuss appropriate and inappropriate employee behaviors, watch the appropriate behavior being performed and role play the appropriate behavior?
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Behavior modeling
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Which of the following training methods has an employee perform several different jobs within an organization?
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Job rotation
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Supervisors who set goals, provide feedback, and encourage employees to use their training are trying to motivate employees to:
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transfer what is learned in training to the job
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____ exercises allow the trainee to work with equipment and in an environment like that found in the actual job.
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Simulation
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____ is the systematic acquisition of skills, rules, concepts, or attitudes that result in improved performance.
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Training
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