Organization Staffing Final

reneging on its offer to hire a new one

deferring a new hired start date can be an alternative to

to be leading indicators to assess a company's staffing system

the best use of short-term staffing metrics is _____

promotion criteria

Peer ratings tend to do a good job predicting what?

fewer applications per position

Which of the following is a leading indicator of staffing outcomes?

They may be less able to see the employees task and interpersonal behaviors

Which of the following is a limitation of using supervisors in performance reviews?

number of applicants per position

Which of the following is both a leading and a lagging indicator of staffing outcomes?

it aims to reduce defects to near zero

Which of the following is true about six sigma?

it may or may not allow for further negotiatioins

Which of the following is true of a competitive job offer?

effective staffing

enhances the degree to which an employee meets a jobs requirements

multiple hurdles

in the selection procedure of a firm, an applicant must obtain a minimum passing score on two different assessment methods before being allowed to continue in the hiring process. What type of assessment plan is being used?

supplementary fit

when a restaurant hire a server who has similar competencies to the existing servers, this is an example of

background check

which assessment method would be the best choice to identify candidates who are more likely to pose a security risk to the company?

it is positively related to job satisfaction

which of the following is true of person-organization fit?

no personal contact is made with the finalist

which of the following is true once a formal written job offer has been presented?

the candidates being targeted come from specific labor markets

E-recruiting should be used when

Interpersonal Behaviors

External customers are often best for evaluating an employees

generating positive stakeholder reactions

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?

at-will employees have a definite time period of service mentioned

Which of the following is true on an employment contract?

supply chain

Workforce redeployment applies the ______ principles used to optimize inventory management, planning, and production to optimize the utilization of a firms employees

Staffing effectiveness, staffing efficiency

_____ effectiveness is usually more difficult to measure than _____

using high cut scores

______ increases the number of false negative hiring outcomes

consideration

a bargained - for exchange between the contract parties is known as

assesses the company's strengths and weaknesses and those of the employees

a company cannot know what training to offer employees unless it

compensatory approach

allowing a candidates high score on an interview to make up for a low score on a personality test is an example of the

performance feedback and development opportunities

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

Graphology

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

voluntary and functional

companies generally try to minimize turnover that is

negative stakeholder reaction

when an employee quits because he is passed over for promotion what has occurred?

buyout incentives

when rightsizing is to occur which of the following are generally well received by employees?

subordinates

which of the following raters is often the most controversial feature of a multi-source assessment?

large standard error of measurement

which of the following reduces the ability of rank ordering to identify the best hire?

staffing evaluation

which of the following refers to the process of analyzing a hiring system to determine its performance and effectiveness?

the firms candidates are unaware of how their information will be used including putting their picture throughout the building

which of the following represents a breach of staffing evaluation ethics?

the company wishes to preserve internal equity of compensation

which of the following, if true, would result in a new hire to a company getting paid less than its exsisting employees?

productivity losses due to the vacancy

The HR manager of a manufacturing firm was calculating the amount spent annually by the company on its staffing practices. Which of the following should be classified as a replacement cost?

cut score

a minimum assessment score that must be met or exceeded to advance to the next assessment phase or to be eligible to receive a job offer

tournament program

a socialization program that requires new hires to "pass" different stages of socialization or be removed from the organization is a

exit interview

asking a departing employee why he or she is leaving the firm is an

mentoring

assigning a new employee to regularly meet with a more senior, more experienced employee to further the career development of both employees is

person-job fit

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

managerial positions

the focus of the career crossroads model is on

similarity between the real job and the test

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

the sum of the economic value of improved performance and the savings from avoiding bad hires

the return on investment from a new assessment method is

discrimination in hiring

the uniform guidelines on Employee selection procedures were created to assist organizations in complying with federal law prohibiting

strategic, operational, financial, and customer-related goals

A balanced scorecard balances a firms_____

12%

A firm hires only 5 employees annually but each for a compensation of $100,000 a year. Assuming it costs the company $12,000 to recruit one person, what is the company's staffing efficiency ratio?

value creation

A majority of the measures in a balanced staffing scorecard should focus on

voluntary, dysfunctional, and avoidable

Companies generally try to minimize turnover that is _____

Equal Employment Opportunity liability

Often greater with internal versus external assessment and staffing efforts

Succesion Management

The ongoing process of systematically identifying assessing and developing organizational leadership to enhance performance is

the assessment methodology

The value of the nine box matrix depends most heavily on the quality of

Evaluative assessment

This process screens out the lowest performing candidates

investiture socialization

processes document what positive characteristics newcomers bring to the organization