Exam 2: Identifying Human Resource Plans and Performance Requirements

If more than one person holds a particular job it is called a position.

If a salesperson's performance is assessed solely by the number of units sold,a potential problem is/are:

The collection of activities,duties,and responsibilities of an individual employee is referred to as a:

Non-human sources of job analysis data in a textile factory could include all the following except for:

Reliability of a criterion refers to its:

If a salesperson is assessed on problem solving skills unrelated to selling,a potential problem is:

A major problem related to the valid assessment of constructs such as adaptiveness and organizational citizenship is:

Observation as a job analysis data collection tool tends to be the most consistently accurate means of information gathering.

A job description is often a narrower and more specific description of a job than a task inventory.

Extrapolation involves linearly extending past rates of human resource changes into the future.

What lists all the tasks that form part of a job and the competencies required to perform it?

The advantages of a checklist are economy and limited training for raters.

A competency for a supervisor in a textile-manufacturing unit may be his or her tendency to initiate actions before being asked.

When conducting job analysis in a fish processing plant,it is possible to use both human and non-human sources for collecting data.

Criterion contamination occurs when aspects of performance,which should have been measured,have not in fact been assessed.

A group of related activities and duties held by one or more employees is referred to as a:

Reliability of a criterion refers to the correspondence between the measure and organization's ultimate goals.

The time frame used for evaluating a production worker should be different from that used for a human resource professional working in the same organization.