I/O

Question 1

Incremental validity should have what?

Answer 1

Moderate base rate & low selection ratio

Question 2

Taylor-Russell Tables

Answer 2

Estimates the % of new hires that will be successful

Question 3

Theory Y Managers

Answer 3

Believe employees are capable of self-control and self-direction

Question 4

Which type of manager has a more positive effect on employees: Theory X or Theory Y managers?

Answer 4

Theory Y

Question 5

Theory X Managers

Answer 5

Believe employees don’t like work and will avoid it as much as possible - they need to be directed and controlled

Question 6

Big-5 trait that is the strongest predictor of effective leadership

Answer 6

Extroversion

Question 7

Comparable worth

Answer 7

Good work receives comparable pay

Especially relevant for gender pay gap

Question 8

Kirkpatrick’s 4 levels of criteria that are used to assess the effectiveness of a training program

Answer 8

Reaction
Learning
Behavior
Results

(ROI added)

Question 9

Transactional leaders

Answer 9

Stability > Change

Use rewards and punishments

Question 10

Scientific Management

(Taylor)

Answer 10

1. Jobs are broken into component parts
2. Employees each perform a part
3. $ motivates

Question 11

Formative evaluation

Answer 11

Evaluation of training program that takes place during program development to make modifications

Question 12

Summative evaluation

Answer 12

Conducted after program’s implementation to evaluate outcomes

Question 13

Compressed work week: impact on satisfaction and performance

Answer 13

Increases satisfaction

No impact on performance

Question 14

T/F: Higher levels of organizational commitment are negatively correlated with absenteeism and turnover

Answer 14

True

Question 15

Tiedman & O’Hara’s Career-Decision Making Model (2 phases)

Answer 15

Career identity is ongoing process related to Erikson’s psychosocial ego stages

2 phases:

1. Anticipation
2. Implementation

(AI - artificial intelligence - UFO at O’Hare airport)

Question 16

Holland’s RIASEC and theory

Answer 16

Emphasizes good fit between personality and environment for job
(CONGRUENCE)

Work/Personality types:
Realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, conventional

*differentiation

Question 17

Herzberg’s Two-Factor Theory

Answer 17

People are motivated by hygiene needs and satisfaction (motivators)

Hygiene factors don’t lead to satisfaction but their absence leads to dissatisfaction

Motivators lead to satisfaction but their absence doesn’t lead to dissatisfaction

Question 18

Theory of Work Adjustment (TWA):

Satisfactoriness

Answer 18

Skills match demands of job

Question 19

Theory of Work Adjustment (TWA):

Satisfaction

Answer 19

When the characteristics of a job match the employee’s needs and values

Question 20

Strongest predictor of job success

Answer 20

Using your skills

Question 21

Relationship between job performance and job satisfaction?

- correlation?

Answer 21

Positive correlation but low coefficients

Question 22

Roe

Answer 22

Parent/child relationship impacts career choice

3 styles of parenting: overprotective, avoidant, accepting

Child grows up with “toward others” or “not toward others”

Question 23

The rational-economic decision-making model is to maximizing as the administrative model is to?

Answer 23

Satisficing