Chapter 7: Selecting Human Resources

Question 1

The process of choosing individuals with the correct qualifications needed to fill jobs in an organization.

Answer 1

Selection

Question 2

Fitting a person to the right job.

Answer 2

Placement

Question 3

The congruence between individuals and organizational factors.

Answer 3

Person/organization fit

Question 4

The congruence between individuals and group or work unit dynamics.

Answer 4

Person/group fit

Question 5

Job candidates are attracted to and selected by firms where similar types of individuals are employed, and individuals who are very different quit their jobs to work elsewhere.

Answer 5

Attraction-selection-attrition (ASA) theory

Question 6

EEOC

Answer 6

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Question 7

Characteristic that a person must possess to successfully perform job duties.

Answer 7

Selection criterion

Question 8

Measurable or visible indicators of selection criteria.

Answer 8

Predictors of selection criteria

Question 9

The extent to which a test or measure repeatedly produces the same results over time.

Answer 9

Reliability

Question 10

The extent to which a test measures what it claims to measure.

Answer 10

Validity

Question 11

Measured when an employer tests current employees and correlates the scores with their performance ratings.

Answer 11

Concurrent validity

Question 12

Measured when applicants’ test results are compared with subsequent job performance.

Answer 12

Predictive validity

Question 13

A qualification or requirement in selection that is significantly related to successful performance of job duties.

Answer 13

Job-relatedness

Question 14

Process through which a job applicant receives an accurate picture of a job.

Answer 14

Realistic job previews

Question 15

ICE

Answer 15

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Question 16

Tests that measure an individual’s thinking, memory, reasoning, verbal, and mathematical abilities.

Answer 16

Cognitive ability tests

Question 17

GATB

Answer 17

General Aptitude Test Battery

Question 18

GMAT

Answer 18

Graduate Management Admission Test

Question 19

Tests that measure an individual’s physical abilities such as strength, endurance, and muscular movement.

Answer 19

Physical ability tests

Question 20

Tests that measure dexterity, hand–eye coordination, arm–hand steadiness, and other factors.

Answer 20

Psychomotor tests

Question 21

Tests that require an applicant to perform a simulated task that is a specified part of the target job.

Answer 21

Work sample tests

Question 22

Tests that measure a person’s judgment in work settings.

Answer 22

Situational judgement tests

Question 23

The ability to recognize and manage our own feelings and the feelings of others.

Answer 23

Emotional intelligence

Question 24

Interview that uses a set of prepared job-related questions that are asked of all applicants.

Answer 24

Structured interview

Question 25

focuses on a chronological assessment of the candidate’s past experiences.

Answer 25

Biographical interview

Question 26

Interview in which applicants give specific examples of how they have performed a certain task or handled a problem in the past.

Answer 26

Behavioral interview

Question 27

Structured interview that contains questions about how applicants might handle specific job situations.

Answer 27

Situational interview

Question 28

occurs when the interviewer improvises by asking questions that are not pre-determined.

Answer 28

Unstructured interview

Question 29

a guided conversation in which broad questions are asked and new questions arise as a result of the discussion

Answer 29

Semistructured interview

Question 30

Several job candidates are interviewed together by a hiring authority.

Answer 30

Group interview

Question 31

Interview that uses questions developed from the answers to previous questions.

Answer 31

Nondirective interview

Question 32

Interview in which several interviewers meet with the candidate at the same time.

Answer 32

Panel interview

Question 33

Interview in which applicants are interviewed by the team members with whom they will work.

Answer 33

Team interview

Question 34

Occurs when an employer fails to check an employee’s background and the employee injures someone on the job.

Answer 34

Negligent hiring

Question 35

Occurs when an employer becomes aware that an employee may be unfit for work but continues to employ the person, and the person injures someone.

Answer 35

Negligent retention

Question 36

ADA

Answer 36

Americans with Disabilities Act

Question 37

prohibits the use of pre-employment medical exams, except for drug tests, until a job has been conditionally offered

Answer 37

Americans with Disabilities Act

Question 38

A measure of how long the applicant has stayed on jobs held in the past.

Answer 38

Previous Job tenure