Recruitment and Selection

Which of the following arguments about job analysis is most effective in order to gain the support of top managers?

The process will help identify employee characteristics that will augment the firm's business strategy and increase the company's return on its staffing investment.

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

They may be less able to see the employee's task and interpersonal behaviors.

________ involves looking at past employment patterns and using those patterns to predict a firm's future labor needs.

Trend analysis

Which of the following people determine whether an applicant will be extended a job offer?

hiring manager

Measurable factors critical to the firm's success and long- and short-term goals are ________.

key performance indicators

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

multiple assessments

A successful executive, who is happy with 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

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

Karen learns that her new job at the bookstore has no other female employees. Thinking that this could lead her employers and coworkers to treat her unfairly, she declines the offer. This is an example of ________.

signaling

Locating qualified individuals and labor markets from which to recruit is ________.

sourcing

Workforce redeployment applies the ________ principles used to optimize inventory management, planning, and production to optimize the utilization of a firm's employees.

supply chain

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

Strategically evaluating the company's current lines of business, new businesses it will be getting into, businesses it will be leaving, and the gaps between the current skills in the organization and the skills it will need to execute its business strategy is ________.

workforce planning

If a company employs two office assistants for every nine architects (a staffing ratio of 2:9) and it plans to expand and hire eighteen new architects, how many new office assistants will it need to hire?

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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.

When an employee quits because he/she is passed over for promotion, what has occurred?

a negative stakeholder reaction

The job analysis technique that identifies behaviors that lead to extremely effective or extremely ineffective job performance is ________.

critical incidents method

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 is a ________.

cut score

Organic growth takes place when an organization ________.

expands from within by opening new factories or stores

If a company makes promises to a recruit that it does not intend to keep, it could be found guilty of ________.

fraudulent recruitment