ch.4

Question 1

criteria

Answer 1

measures of job success typically related to performance

Question 2

predictors

Answer 2

variables about applicants that are related to the criteria

Question 3

false positive errors

Answer 3

erroneously accepting applicants who wouldn’t have been successful

Question 4

false negative errors

Answer 4

erroneously rejecting applicants who would have been successful

Question 5

multiple regression model

Answer 5

an employee selection method that combines separate predictors of job success in a statistical procedure

Question 6

multiple cutoff model

Answer 6

using a minimum cutoff score on each of the various predictors of job performance

Question 7

multiple hurdle model

Answer 7

an acceptance or rejection decision be made at each of several stages in a screening process

Question 8

employee placement

Answer 8

the process of assigning workers to appropriate jobs

Question 9

adverse impact

Answer 9

when members of a protected group are treated unfairly by an employer’s personnel action

Question 10

affirmative action

Answer 10

voluntary devleopment of organizational policies that try to ensure that jobs are madea vailable to qualified person regardless of sex, age, ethnicity

Question 11

bona fide occupational qualifications

Answer 11

real and valid occupational needs required for a particular job

Question 12

weighted applicaton forms

Answer 12

forms that assign different weights to the various pieces of information provided on a job application

Question 13

parallel forms

Answer 13

method of establishing the reliability of a measurement instrument by correlating scores on 2 different but equivalent versions of the same instrument

Question 14

construct validity

Answer 14

an employment test measures what’s supposed to measure

Question 15

criterion related validity

Answer 15

accuracy of a measurement instrument in determining the relationship between scores on the instrument and some criterion of job success

Question 16

perfornance appraisals

Answer 16

formalized means of assessing worker performance in comparison to certain established organizational standards

Question 17

performance criteria

Answer 17

determine successful.unsuccessful job performance

Question 18

objective performance

Answer 18

measurement of some easily quantifiable aspects of job performance

Question 19

selective performance criteria

Answer 19

measures of job performance that typically consist of ratings or judgements of performance

Question 20

criterion relevance

Answer 20

extent to which the means of appraising performance is pertinent to job success

Question 21

criterion contamination

Answer 21

extent to which performance appraisals contain elements that detract from the accurate assessment of job effectiveness

Question 22

criterion deficiency

Answer 22

degree to which criterion falls short of measuring job performance perfectly

Question 23

criterion usefulness

Answer 23

extent to which a performance criterion is unable in appraising a particular job