MGMT 365 Chapter 6 Connect Test Questions

Which of the following correlation coefficients indicates a perfect positive relationship?

+1.0

Which of the following correlation coefficients indicates a perfect negative relationship?

-1.0

The "direct threat" clause is a part of the _____.

Americans with Disabilities Act

The _____ allows an individual filing a complaint to have a jury decide whether he or she may recover punitive damages (in addition to lost wages and benefits) for emotional injuries caused by discrimination.

Civil Rights Act of 1991

The _____ defines employers' explicit obligation to establish the business necessity of any neutral-appearing selection method that has had an adverse impact on groups specified by the law.

Civil Rights Act of 1991

The _____ protects individuals from discrimination based on race, color, sex, religion, and national origin with respect to hiring as well as compensation and working conditions.

Civil Rights Act of 1991

Which legislation prohibits discrimination and mandates that employers take affirmative actions to hire qualified minority applicants?

Executive Order 11246

Which of the following scenarios is an apt example of a future-oriented situational interview?

Fernandez was asked about the steps he would take to change the work environment in his office

Which of the following is an example of an experience-based situational interview?

Hiroshi was asked to describe an event where his creativity led to effective problem solving

Which of the following acts explicitly prohibits the granting of preferential treatment to minority groups?

The Civil Rights Act of 1991

Which of the following personality dimensions is typically associated with a person being nondepressed, secure, and content?

adjustment

_____ is a wide variety of specific selection programs that employ multiple selection methods to rate either applicants or job incumbents on their managerial potential.

assessment center

The concept of _____ suggests that similar groups of people whose scores differ by only a small amount all be treated as having the same score.

banding

_____ assess main facets such as verbal comprehension, quantitative ability, and reasoning ability.

cognitive ability tests

Which of the following is NOT tested in a physical ability test?

cognitive skill

Star Inc., an engineering firm, has come up with a new technical test to assess the knowledge of interviewees. To assess the validity of the test, it requests that its present employees take the test and match it with their performance in the organization. Which of the following types of validation has Star Inc. used to test the validity of its new technical test?

concurrent validation

Which of the following validation strategies is most likely to be adversely affected by the restriction of range problem that results due to current employees being homogeneous?

concurrent validation

A test that has _____ validity exposes the job applicant to situations that are likely to occur on the job, then tests whether the applicant currently has sufficient knowledge, skill, or ability to handle such situations.

content

Federal Auto Corp. (FAC) is looking for experienced ergonomic design engineers and wants to keep training costs to a minimum. The upper management instructs its HR team to develop a test that would test the design and ergonomic knowledge of the potential engineering candidates. This test is a _____ valid test.

content

In the case of _____ validation, it is critical to minimize the amount of inference involved on the part of the judges because their subjective judgment could bias the findings.

content

Rollerbeam Inc., a provider of engineering services, is looking to hire several maintenance engineers. Rollerbeam's HR department checks with the company's engineering department to confirm that the scenarios mentioned in the test are plausible real-world scenarios that maintenance engineers might face. Which of the following types of validation is Rollerbeam's HR team performing?

content validation

Which of the following forms of validation becomes relatively more attractive as the sample available for validation becomes smaller?

content validation

The _____ is a measure of the degree to which two sets of numbers are related.

correlation coefficient

A person who is agreeable in nature will be _____.

courteous and trusting

If there is a substantial correlation between test scores and job-performance scores, _____ validity has been established.

criterion-related

John is open to experiences if he is

curious and imaginative

A person who is conscientious will be

dependable, organized, persevering, thorough, and achievement-oriented

The Americans with Disabilities Act _____.

does not require an organization to make accommodations that cause undue hardship

Which of the following concepts is used to describe people who are especially effective in fluid and socially intensive contexts?

emotional intelligence

Latoya is very good at reading the emotions of others and can easily gauge whether people are happy or sad. Latoya has a high degree of _____.

empathy

Content validity is achieved primarily through a process of _____.

expert judgment

Which of the following personality dimensions is associated with sociable, gregarious, assertive, and talkative individuals?

extroversion

A large-scale, independent review of validity studies suggests that paper-and-pencil honesty tests cannot predict both theft and other disruptive behaviors.

false

A measure can be valid without being reliable.

false

A physical ability test measures balance, but not coordination.

false

As per the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the burden of proof always lies with the person who faces discrimination.

false

Employees with high conscientiousness tend to be lethargic and ill-disciplined.

false

Executive Order 11246 extends protections outlined in the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967.

false

Experience-based items ask what a person is likely to do when confronting a certain hypothetical situation in the future.

false

Reliability is the degree to which the validity of a selection method established in one context extends to other contexts.

false

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1991 protects individuals with physical disabilities, but not those with mental disabilities.

false

The Polygraph Act in 1988 permitted the use of polygraphs in employment screening.

false

The correlation coefficient is zero for a perfect positive relationship.

false

The inability to use content validation in small sample settings makes it generally less applicable than criterion-related validation.

false

The size of the sample on which a correlation is based has no role in achieving statistical significance.

false

The utility of any given test generally increases as the selection ratio gets higher.

false

Work-sample tests are not job-specific and their generalizability is high.

false

Which of the following statements is true of situational interviews?v

future-oriented interviews are less valid than experience-based interviews

When a company provides evidence from previous criterion-related validity studies conducted in other situations to show that a specific test is a valid predictor for a specific job performance, it is trying to prove the test's

generalizability

_____ is the degree to which the validity of a selection method established in one context extends to other contexts.

generalizability

As part of the application process for an entry-level job after college, Isaac was given a personality test. He takes the same test as an applicant for another position 10 years later. Which of the following will likely be indicated by the results of Isaac's second test?

he has become more conscientious

Personality inventories tend to have

high reliability, low to moderate criterion validity, and low generalizability

The utility of any test generally _____ as the selection ratio gets lower.

increases

Content validation

is performed by demonstrating that the questions or problems posed by a test are a representative sample of the kinds of situations or problems that occur on the job

Self-motivation

is the ability to persevere

Which of the following is the most accurate definition of concurrent validity?

it assesses the validity of a test by administering it to people already on the job and then correlating test scores with existing measures of each person's performance

Predictive validation is superior to concurrent validation because

job applicants are more motivated than an organization's employees

_____ categorize individuals by what they are like.

personality tests

_____ validation is a validity study that seeks to establish an empirical relationship between test scores taken prior to being hired and eventual performance on the job.

predictive

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act does NOT

protect younger workers

_____ ability is the speed and accuracy with which one can solve arithmetic problems of all kinds.

quantitative

_____ ability is a person's capacity to invent solutions to many diverse problems.

reasoning

Which of the following personnel selection methods has low generalizability for all job types?

reference check

Which of the following personnel selection methods has low reliability as compared to others?

reference check

_____ is the degree to which a measure is free from random error.

reliability

Which of the following statements is true regarding reliability and validity?

reliability of a measure is essential for it to have any validity

Which of the following statements is true of the reliability of a measurement?

reliability refers to the measuring instrument rather than to the characteristic itself

Which of the following requires that government contractors set a goal for the percentage of employees with disabilities who constitute their workforce?

rules set by the U.S. Department of Labor

The percentage of people chosen relative to the total number of people tested gives the _____ ratio.

selection

A _____ is defined dialogue initiated by one or more persons to gather information and evaluate the qualifications of an applicant for employment.

selection interview

Which of the following aspects of emotional intelligence is the knowledge of one's strengths and weaknesses?

self-awareness

_____ is the ability to keep disruptive emotions in check.

self-regulation

As per the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, if any neutral-appearing practice happens to have an adverse impact on those over age 40, the employer must _____.

show business necessity to avoid a guilty verdict

Nelson is a very gregarious person who, through his interactions, can effectively manage the people working under him in the organization. Nelson has a high degree of _____.

social skills

Executive Order 11246 allows the government to

suspend all business with a contractor while an investigation is being conducted

When assessing the reliability of a measure, one might be interested in knowing how scores on the measure at one time relate to scores on the same measure at another time. This is called

test-retest reliability

A concurrent validation assesses the validity of a test by administering it to people already on the job and then correlating test scores with existing measures of each person's performance.

true

Content validity is achieved primarily through a process of expert judgment.

true

Much of the work in personnel selection involves measuring characteristics of people to determine who will be accepted for job openings.

true

One of the concerns regarding the use of drug tests in a workplace is the undue invasion of privacy.

true

Reliability refers to the measuring instrument rather than to the characteristic itself.

true

The Civil Rights Act of 1991 protects individuals from discrimination based on race, sex, religion, and national origin with respect to hiring as well as compensation and working conditions.

true

The degree to which a measure is free from random error is its reliability.

true

The more reliable, valid, and generalizable a selection method is, the more utility it will have.

true

Validity is necessary but not sufficient for generalizability.

true

Validity is the extent to which performance on a measure is related to performance on the job.

true

The degree to which the information provided by selection methods enhances the bottom-line effectiveness of the organization is known as the selection method's

utility

The extent to which performance on a measure is related to performance on the job is called

validity

Which of the following is a person's capacity to understand and use written and spoken language?

verbal comprehension

A(n) _____ test attempts to simulate the job in a prehiring context to observe how the applicant performs in the simulated job.

work-sample