Exam 2 Quiz Questions

Question 1

Aggregators need ___ to make up their minds.

Answer 1

Lots of info, time, and clear understanding of their needs

Question 2

The less deviation from regression line the ___ the correlation.

Answer 2

Higher

Question 3

____ controls for error due to situation and is vulnerable to history effects.

Answer 3

Test-retest reliability

Question 4

There is a type of validity that is ____.

Answer 4

Based on job analysis, examines 1 measure at a time, based on professional judgment, involves face validity (all of the above)

Question 5

Assessment centers have multiple ___, ___, and ___.

Answer 5

Dimensions, exercise, evaluators

Question 6

A company uses a manual dexterity test to hire people; it is discovered that manual dexterity is not related to success on the job. This indicates a problem with ___.

Answer 6

Productive validity

Question 7

False positives are people who ____.

Answer 7

Hired but not successful

Question 8

People who would have been successful, but are not selected are called ____.

Answer 8

False negatives

Question 9

False negatives are ____.

Answer 9

The % of people who would have been successful if hired

Question 10

The primary purpose for performance appraisal are ___, ___, and ___.

Answer 10

HR system evaluation, decision making, development

Question 11

‘Objective criteria’ tend to focus on ____.

Answer 11

Work outcomes

Question 12

In comparison to subjective criteria, objective criteria are more likely to be ____.

Answer 12

Deficient

Question 13

Focusing solely on production (output) measures may lead to problems with ____.

Answer 13

Product quality

Question 14

A supervisory rating of an employee’s performance would be an example of what kind of criterion?

Answer 14

Subjective criterion

Question 15

The forced distribution rating system does not have a problem with which type of common rating error?

Answer 15

Halo, central tendency, severity, leniency (all of the above)

Question 16

Rating quality is a function of ___, ___, and ____.

Answer 16

Motivation of rater, rating form, skill of rater

Question 17

A problem often present in having someone from outside the organization evaluate performance is that they do not see ____ performance.

Answer 17

Typical

Question 18

The tendency of a supervisor to let his/her overall impression of an employee on specific performance dimensions is called ____.

Answer 18

Halo error

Question 19

The tendency of the supervisor to avoid assigning high or low rating to employees is called ____.

Answer 19

Central tendency

Question 20

Which of the following tends to be overused by managers?

Answer 20

Training

Question 21

Which of the following should play the largest role in training needs assessment?

Answer 21

Organization analysis

Question 22

To determine if a person needs training you should ask yourself.

Answer 22

All of the above

Question 23

Reinforcement ____ the probability of response.

Answer 23

Increases

Question 24

The importance of teaching tasks in a particular order is called ____.

Answer 24

Sequencing

Question 25

One potential disadvantage of the off-the-job training is ____.

Answer 25

Costs

Question 26

Which of the following jobs would be the most likely candidate for simulation training?

Answer 26

Airplane pilot

Question 27

Kolb’s learning styles included all of the following except ____.

Answer 27

Equivocators

Question 28

What is the most effective procedure for evaluating a training program?

Answer 28

Experimental design

Question 29

To have an experiment you must have _____.

Answer 29

Random assignment and control group

Question 30

The best definition of meta-analysis is ____.

Answer 30

All of the above

Question 31

Which test from the meta-analysis results should not be considered for use in selection of employees?

Answer 31

Special relations

Question 32

Range restriction results when _____.

Answer 32

All of the above

Question 33

The _____ validity was better than the _____ validity in the SAT writing test validation study.

Answer 33

Predictive/incremental

Question 34

The biggest problem with the SAT validation study was the _____.

Answer 34

Return rate

Question 35

The paradox of selection is that ___.

Answer 35

What is done to attract makes selection harder