MGMT 432 Exam 2

Which of the following statements is a UGESP guideline that pertains to candidate assessment?

Abilities must be defined in terms of observable aspects of job behavior.

employee referrals

An organization that is currently composed of primarily white males may discriminate against minorities and women if it uses which recruiting source?

If a test score is at the 90th percentile, then which of the following is true?

Only 10% of the test takers scored higher than this.

Which of the following would reduce adverse impact?

Use assessment methods with less adverse impact early in the selection process.

Which of the following external recruiting sources is fast, cheap, and useful for finding active job seekers?

Walk-ins

While interviewing Denise for the position of counselor at the local rehabilitation facility for troubled teens, she was informed that her line of work would involve interacting with youths who have a history of violent behavior as well as drug and alcohol abuse. Denise accepts the position without hesitation. What function of the realistic job preview is being discussed here?

a commitment to the choice

A formal document detailing the process to be followed when a firm recruits for an open position is a

a recruiting plan.

Internal assessment typically improves a firm's strategic capabilities by

assisting "blocked" employees to improve their performance.

How can an organization with positive employer broadening image increase the quality of its applicant pools

by reducing recruitment flaws through training

After choosing the position on which to focus, the first general step in a succession management project is to

check that the job description outlines the current and future competencies, a person needs to perform at a high level in the key position.

Need to acknowledge and respect the diversity of local cultures when sourcing and managing a global workforce is called

differentiation

Which type of fairness is perceived to be low by most job applicants who are not selected for a particular job

distributive fairness

Which of the following do corporate executives use to form an image of a specific organization?

economic performance indicator

Online applications give the candidate real time status information and

flexibility to complete at their own convenience.

Graphology includes any practice that involves determining personality traits or abilities from a person's

handwriting.

Publicizing open jobs to employees is known as

internal job posting.

External customers are often best for evaluating an employee's

interpersonal behaviors.

A company cannot know what training to offer employees unless

it assesses their strengths and weaknesses

The use of social media for recruiting and sourcing will continue to increase due to

its targeted search capability

An applicant who finds a recruiter to be rude and unhelpful is likely to perceive

low interactional fairness

The focus of the career crossroads model is on

managerial positions

Which of the following is a type of cognitive ability test?

mathematical reasoning

Having recruiters evaluate candidates for their fit with several different positions is an example of

multiple assessments.

for which of the following types of candidates will initial recruiter experiences be more important in their ultimately becoming applicants at all?

passive job seekers

The fit between a person's ability and the demands of the job and the fit between the person's desires, motivations, attributes, and rewards is:

person-job fit

SteelMakers Inc. (SMI) is in urgent need of senior sales executives. Sales have declined in the last three quarters while the market share of their leading competitor, Steelworld, has steadily increased. SMI has realized that they are losing out not because of inferior products, but because they have not been able to pitch their products as well as Steelworld. After careful observation of the sales efforts of the latter, the SMI management has decided to offer extremely lucrative, hard to refuse, deals to one or two selected members of Steelworld's sales team. Which of the following modes of sourcing is SMI using in this case?

poaching

An organization claiming to provide an environment in which employees can grow their careers has to

provide performance feedback and development opportunities.

Hiring top talent away from another company is an example of using which recruiting source?

raiding competitors

An HR manager trying to recruit for a number of key positions in a firm asks the best talent to recommend the best employees they've worked with in the past or employees they feel would be good performers. This is an example of

referrals.

How dependably or consistently a measure assesses a particular characteristic is the measures

reliability

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

The higher the fidelity of a job simulation test, the higher is the

similarity between the real job and the test.

Amy was unhappy with the way she was treated when she applied for the position of a shop-floor assistant at a local retail outlet. When her friend Carrie hears about this, she stops shopping at that store. This is an example of

spillover effect

Asking all job candidates questions from the same interview schedule in the same way is an example of

standardization.

Which of the following would help the process of compiling information about the job or organization that candidates will find more and less attractive?

surveying present employees

The management at Ajax Corporation believes that internal recruiting sources are the best, especially when it comes to filling vacant positions higher up in the hierarchy. Team leaders and managers at Ajax regularly update the internal records of all employees and their performances, promotability, career interests, etc. This allows the company to quickly and cheaply source qualified internal candidates who can be contacted whenever a position needs to filled. Most of Ajax's managers were promoted to their respective positions with the help of this internal database. Which of the following methods of internal sourcing does Ajax use?

talent inventories

Which of the following recruitment strategies can reduce the possibility of overlooking qualified internal talent?

talent inventories

Which of the following is true about multiple regressions?

the firm has identified whom it wants to hire

what is a disadvantage of getting line managers to recruit for a firm

they have to take time out from their actual jobs

Which of the following would be required to provide critical skills to employees that might be needed in the future?

training

Behavioral interviews are more reliable and substantially better than ________ at predicting job performance.

unstructured interviews

When a company hired Marcus who turned out to be a poor performer, which assessment outcome occurred?

False positive.

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.

Juan is a highly qualified biomedical researcher. Having recently completed his education, he applies to work at a pharmaceutical company which is renowned for its fast-paced innovation and aggressive growth policy. Which of the following, if true, would provide for a poor person-organization fit in this case?

Juan has the tendency to be process-oriented and is risk averse.

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

Which of the following means of sourcing talent is sometimes considered unethical?

Raiding

Angstrom is a company that produces electronic goods. In the past, Angstrom used newspaper advertisements as the only method to recruit engineers. Recently it used college hiring, career sites, and employee referrals in addition to its usual method. Which of the following would be the most likely result of this?

The heterogeneity of the workforce will increase.

Which of the following seems to be most important with regard to recruiter demographics?

The recruiter needs to be able to relate to a recruit's value system and drive.

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.

When should medical tests be administered

after a job offer has been extended

Recruiter behaviors have the largest impact on

applicant intentions to pursue a job opportunity

The extent to which recruiters influence job seekers depends on the degree to which recruiters

are seen as reliable signals of what it would be like to work for the company.

Having administrative assist job candidates perform a set of exercises including taking phone messages, typing reports, scheduling meetings, and filing is an example of an:

assessment center

Which of the following improves the ease of use of skills inventories?

databases

Failure to measure important aspects of the attribute to be measured results in

deficiency error.

Web sites that continually search the Web for information about people with desirable talents and sell access to their database of potential recruits are called

web crawlers.

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.

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 hiring manager is unhappy that the staffing system requires her to take two hours of her limited time to interview each candidate, which staffing goal is not being met?

generating positive stakeholder reactions

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.

An insurance company assesses all employees' current job skills and creates road maps for them outlining the competencies they need to advance within the company. The company then makes sure they get the training they need, including coaching and mentoring, classroom training. This is an example of

succession management

The ongoing process of recruiting, evaluating, developing, and preparing employees to assume other positions in the firm in the future is

succession management.

When a restaurant hires a server who has similar competencies to existing servers:

supplementary fit