MAN4320 TEST 2
Which of the following events suggests that a home improvement store such as The Home Depot or Lowe's will need fewer workers in the next one to three years?
a decrease in consumer disposable income.
When a company hired Marcus who turned out to be a poor performer, which assessment outcome occurred?
false positive
Online applications give the candidate real time status information and
flexibility to complete at their own convenience
Filling lower-level positions from the local labor market and higher-level positions from the regional or national labor market is an example of ________.
geographic targeting
Having a low selection ratio means ________.
hiring only a few applicants
A successful executive, who is happy with his/her current position, does not look for information about other jobs, but might be tempted by a great opportunity is a(n) ________.
passive job seeker
The fit between a person's abilities and the demands of the job and the fit between a person's desires and motivations and the attributes and rewards of a job is ________.
person-job fit
The biggest legal problem with personality tests is based on ________.
privacy issues
When an applicant believes that an assessment method is unfair because it does not give him/her an opportunity to demonstrate job-relevant skills ________.
procedural fairness is low
An engineering firm is looking for a civil engineer to head their new project to build a highway. Unable to find the right candidate for the job, the firm resorts to scouting for potential candidates among the employees of rival firms. It offers the assistant chief engineer of its rival firm an extremely lucrative package and the chance to assume greater responsibilities. This practice is known as ________.
pull-up hire
Which of the following means of sourcing talent is sometimes considered unethical?
raiding
A formal document detailing the process to be followed when a firm recruits for an open position is a ________.
recruiting plan
Which of the following is a way in which many organizations try reduce their need for skills that will be in short supply for a number of years?
redesigning jobs
Which of the following visually shows each of the possible successors for a job and summarizes their strengths, past performance, promotion readiness, and development needs?
replacement charts
When a union organizer tries to get a job with a company for the purpose of unionizing the company's workforce, this is known as ________.
salting
Retainer firms are ________.
search firms who charge employers a fixed fee in advance of placement
Skills inventories are databases of the skills, competencies, and other relevant characteristics of each employee.
True
Spillover effects can be either positive or negative in nature.
True
The most comprehensive source of free data on conditions in the U.S. labor market is the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
True
Well- designed assessment tools in hiring can affect the revenue and bottom line of a company.
True
Which of the following would result in peer ratings being a successful method of internal assessment in a firm?
Work in the firm is done in teams.
Recruiters are seen as setting the standard for talent for the company.
True
Scatter plots show graphically how two different variables are related.
True
A clinical assessment puts job candidates through a series of simulations and exercises that reflect the typical challenges of the job.
False
A persistent problem that prevents most firms from hiring people with disabilities is the lack of affordable technologies that could enable firms to accommodate them at a low cost.
False
A recruit's perception of the recruiter's knowledge has little impact on how attractive a job is.
False
Cognitive ability tests are one of the least valid selection methods.
False
Early retirement programs are a common way of dealing with temporary employee surpluses.
False
Evaluative assessment methods are used to narrow down a pool of job candidates to a smaller group of candidates.
False
For a specific organization, the turnover rate is always constant.
False
Higher staffing efficiency percentages reflect greater staffing efficiency.
False
Peer ratings tend to do a poor job predicting promotion criteria.
False
Succession management cannot be used to enhance organizational diversity.
False
Succession management means identifying specific back-up candidates for specific senior management positions.
False
The advantage of using self-assessment is that people are often good judges of their own talents.
False
Transition analysis is a qualitative technique.
False
Which of the following is true of transition analysis?
It assumes that all employees in a job have an equal probability of movement.
Which of the following statements is true of a recruitment guide?
It details which staff members are responsible for recruiting.
Which of the following is a benefit of social networking as a sourcing method?
It increases diversity of talent available.
Which of the following is true of person-organization fit?
It is positively related to job satisfaction.
________ rely on trained psychologists to subjectively analyze a candidate's attributes, values, and styles in the context of a particular job.
Clinical assessments
If a company wanted to quickly identify which employees speak Spanish, what would be the best way to do this?
Query the company's skills inventory system
________ is(are) used to reenergize employees and give them the opportunity to develop skills and pursue other interests via workshops, formal classes, or travel.
Sabbaticals
Which of the following, if true, would require a company to make adjustments to its historical employee-productivity ratios?
The company is adopting a more efficient manufacturing system.
If an individual's goals, values, and work style clashes with the goals, values, and work style of his or her co-workers, which of the following is true?
The individual has low person-group fit.
Persuasion is an important recruiter skill, and in order to persuade an individual to consider leaving a job she or he is happy with, the message must come from a trusted and credible individual.
True
Psychomotor tests assess a person's capacity to manipulate and control objects.
True
Realistic job previews can help counter inaccurate employer images.
True
What is the disadvantage of getting line managers to recruit for a firm?
They have to take time out from their actual jobs.
______________________ involves looking at past employment patterns and using those patterns to predict a firm's future labor needs.
Trend analysis
Applicant flow is the number and type of applicants coming from each recruiting source.
True
Asking job candidates for a mechanic position, "have you ever repaired small motors at home?" is an example of a biodata question.
True
Becoming an employer of choice may increase the number of unqualified or inappropriate applicants.
True
Bottom-up judgmental forecasting uses the input of lower-level managers to estimate the firm's total staffing requirements.
True
Career planning is a continuous process of self-assessment and goal setting.
True
Career sites are cost-effective and enable an organization to communicate its job requirements and values to all applicants.
True
Effectively using technology can improve applicant reactions and promote positive spillover effects.
True
Employee profiling identifies the firm's successful high performing employees and how similar candidates can be recruited.
True
Forecasting is not an exact science, and it is rare for a forecast to be exactly correct. Given this uncertainty, it is usually best to use the previous period's data and add or reduce some percentage value based upon managerial intuition.
True
If new competitors enter an industry, customers will have greater product choices, which will tend to dilute the demand for any one company's products or services.
True
Involving customers and external stakeholders in the interview process can increase the job fit with candidates.
True
Multisource assessments involve the employee's supervisor as well as other sources that are familiar with an employee's job performance.
True
Adam has joined an advertising firm as a junior executive. Due to his lack of experience, he has a lot to learn and has been assigned as a protégé to Mark, a senior executive in the firm, who will assist in training and assessing his performance. This process of internal assessment is called ________.
a mentoring program
Which of the following would be most useful for a firm needing to quickly reassign employees to an important new project?
a talent inventory
A new college graduate looking for his or her first job is a(n) ________.
active job seeker
When should medical tests be administered?
after a job offer has been extended
A company cannot know what training to offer employees unless it ________.
assesses their strengths and weaknesses
Internal assessment typically improves a firm's strategic capabilities by ________.
assisting "blocked" employees to improve their performance
Which assessment method would be the best choice to identify candidates who are more likely to pose a security risk to the company?
background check
An HR manager asked every candidate during an interview to describe a situation in the past in which they had to display their leadership abilities even though they were not a formal leader, discuss what they did, and describe the result. This is an example of which external assessment method?
behavioral interview
Asking applicants what sports they like to play is an example of which external assessment method?
biodata
Typically, when interest rates rise,
businesses are less likely to expand.
A nine box matrix requires assessing employees on ________.
current job performance and future potential
Which of the following is more likely to warrant changes in an organization's compensation policy to offer above-market wages?
decreasing unemployment rates.
Which of the following do corporate executives use to form an image of a specific organization?
economic performance indicators
Which of the following refers to the training of employees to extend their capabilities and prepare them to assume other jobs and roles in the firm?
employee development
Effective staffing enhances the degree to which a(n) ________.
employee meets a job's requirements
Which of the following external recruiting sources is useful for finding semi-passive and passive job seekers?
internet data mining
The use of social media for recruiting and sourcing will continue to increase due to ________.
its targeted search capability
Which of the following is a type of cognitive ability test?
mathematical reasoning
Which of the following recruitment strategies can help an organization reduce labor costs and improve customer service together with accessing top talent?
offshoring
The higher the fidelity of a job simulation test, the higher is the ________.
similarity between the real job and the test
Which term refers to the proportion of applicants moving from one stage of the hiring process to the next?
staffing yields
Which of the following raters is often the most controversial feature of a multisource assessment?
subordinates
The ongoing process of systematically identifying, assessing and developing organizational leadership to enhance performance is ________.
succession management
When a restaurant hires a server who has similar competencies to the existing servers, this is an example of ________.
supplementary fit
Behavioral interviews are more reliable and substantially better than ________ at predicting job performance.
unstructured interviews