Exam 7: Selecting Human Resources

Angus has been a bus driver for a tour bus company for the last 15 years and has an excellent driving record. Last year, Angus was on medical leave for 8 weeks due to a back injury which has left him in chronic pain. If Angus has an accident while driving one of the tour buses because of the effects of his prescription pain medication and if passengers are injured, the company might be liable for:

Reliability is the ability of a test to produce the same results repeatedly over time.

How does an unstructured interview differ from a semistructured one?

The selection process for an international assignment should provide a realistic picture of the life, work, and culture to which the employee may be sent.

The interior decorators, designers, and architects of WorldKraft Design work together in self-managing work groups. This structure is key to the organization's culture, and it is important that new hires fit in with the work group to which they are assigned. In this case, it would be wise to use:

How does the compensatory approach combine predictors?

A school district hired a school bus driver without conducting a multi-state criminal background check; a background check was conducted only in the state in which the school was located. Subsequently, the school bus driver was convicted of kidnapping one of the children who traveled in his bus. The prosecution in the case revealed that the driver had been convicted ten years ago for a similar case in another state. The school district is guilty of:

Discuss the usefulness of honesty and integrity tests as selection tests.

In verifying the identities and credentials of job applicants, employers must use the revised form I-9 for each employee hired and must:

More than anything else, placement of human resources should be seen as a(n):

In general, the more structured a type of selection interview, the more likely it is to be statistically valid.

Measurable or visible indicators of selection criteria are called:

When does inter-rater reliability become important during selection interviewing?

In selection, a predictor is a characteristic that a person must have to perform a job successfully.

Which of the following is true of all structured interviews?

The purpose of a _____ is to give applicants an accurate idea of the positive and negative aspects of a job so that they can more accurately evaluate the employment situation.

Gisela has just finished her interview with the managing editor of a large city newspaper. She is shaken and upset because the editor talked about her educational background in an insulting tone. He also pressured her to answer confusing questions without allowing her time to collect her thoughts. Given this scenario, Gisela most likely attended a _____ interview.

Kent and Julie are both recruiters for Sunspree Corp. When both of them interview the same applicant, they often find that they have different opinions about the applicant's potential as a future high performer for Sunspree. Kent and Julie demonstrate:

Carrie phoned an applicant's former supervisor for a reference. The supervisor refuses to give any information about the former employee. What mistake may Carrie have made?

A(n) _____ is a selection and development device composed of a series of evaluative exercises and tests in which candidates are evaluated by a panel of trained raters.