Exam 4: Recruitment, Selection, and Decision Making

Sunjeev is in charge of recruiting and selecting employees for a large government organization.One of his primary concerns is the match between applicant's values, and the values and culture of the organization.Which of the following is this match known as?

Which of the following is characteristic of structured interviews?

What does the body of research on the use of personality tests in candidate selection suggest?

What is the essential difference between Biographical Informational Blanks (BIBs) and Weighted Application Blanks (WABs)?

According to your textbook, what does the personality literature tell us about faking and response distortion on personality tests?

According to your text, what can we conclude about the use of résumés in selection?

Assessment centres provide multiple sources of data to the assessors.

Meghan works for a Canadian organization that provides aid to African villages, and she must hire 20 new employees.Meghan decides to contact her friends and family members who are looking for work.She thinks that since she is good at her job, and they are similar to her, they would also be good at the job.However, her friend Luc warns her that the resulting applicant pool may be too homogenous (e.g., Anglophone, Caucasian, middle-class).What might inadvertently result from Meghan hiring people like herself?

There is substantial evidence to support the use of all Emotional Intelligence measures in the selection of employees across occupations.

What did Victor Catano and Angela Bissonnette (2009) conclude in their study on assessment procedures used by Canadian organizations?

Most people find a job through which of the following methods?

Faking and response distortion on personality tests do occur in lab situations.