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Assume you hired 25 of 50 white applicants; how many of the 40 black applicants must you hire in order to not have an adverse impact?

16

Within the College of Business and Technology at Black Hills State University, there is one dean, two administrative assistants, and 20 faculty members. How many positions are there within the college?

23

Which of the following is a work-study training method that teaches job skills, usually a trade, through a combination of on-the-job training and classroom training?

Apprenticeship

Which of the following types of validation procedures relies most on expert judgment?

Content-related

Which of the following types of validity is defined as "the extent to which a test effectively predicts an individual's behavior in specific situations"?

Criterion-related

What are the risks associated with reference checking?

Giving information that is seen as too negative or positive

In a disparate impact case, what is the most likely defense to be offered by the defendant?

Job relatedness

Which of the following personality traits is marked by instability, insecurity, and depression

Neuroticism

If the goals of the training program include conveying facts or comparing alternative processes, which one of the following methods is most likely to be used?

Presentation

Which of the following stages of learning is characterized by automatic behavior and applying knowledge to novel circumstances?

Proceduralization

Which one of the following indicates how free a measure is from random error?

Reliability

During an interview for a sales position, you are asked the following question: "Suppose one of your clients refuses to speak to you after you lost one of his orders; what would you do to regain his business?" What type of interview format is being used?

Situational

Which of the following traits describe extraversion?

Sociable, gregarious, assertive, talkative

Which of the following processes identifies the tasks, knowledge, skills, and behaviors that training should emphasize

Task analysis

According to research on recruitment, which of the following is most important for predicting job choices?

The job vacancy characteristics.

How does the use of physical ability tests make the organization vulnerable to the charges of discrimination

The tests tend to exclude women and people with disabilities.

Which of the following is an advantage of relying on internal recruitment sources?

They are generally cheaper and faster than other means.

In terms of assessing the effectiveness of a training program, which of the following designs is considered to be the best?

Two-group pretest/posttest design

Why is hiring new employees for every labor shortage not preferable?

When the shortage becomes surplus, the organization may have to lay off employees.

Trend analysis is:

accurately predicting labor demand for the next year using leading indicators

Task analysis focuses on the aspects of the task that:

are necessary to know in order to do the job properly

When an organization makes applicants take all selection tests in its selection system and then reviews their scores on all of the measures to find the most desirable candidates, the organization can use a:

compensatory model

To test the validity of your selection device for widget makers, you have given the test to the present widget makers (i.e., incumbents) in your company and correlated it with their latest performance appraisal scores. What type of validation have you used

concurrent

The first step in the instructional design process is:

conducting a needs assessment.

Academic classroom tests such as this one, are supposed to have -related validity.

content

Experiential learning appears to be best suited for:

developing skills related to group effectiveness and leadership

Hands-on training methods are most effective for:

developing specific skills or dealing with interpersonal issues on the job.

Which of the following options for reducing an expected labor surplus has the benefit of being a relatively fast solution, but the disadvantage of being high in human suffering?

downsizing

Assume that forecasting indicates your company needs to reduce its white-collar workforce in order to avoid a labor surplus in the next three to five years. Consistent with the corporate culture it wants to maintain, your company places a higher priority on minimizing human suffering than on achieving the labor reduction quickly. The options that are most consistent with these priorities are:

early retirement and retraining

Transfer of training refers to the extent the training equipment and environment is similar to that found on the job. T o F

false

Interviewing effectiveness may be enhanced by:

focusing on accomplishing a few goals.

The U.S. Army's "Be an Army of One" campaign is an example of:

image advertising.

Behavior modeling is best for improving:

interpersonal skills

One of the disadvantages of distance learning as a training method is its:

limited interaction between instructor and students

One of the disadvantages of distance learning as a training method is its:

limited interaction between instructor and students.

The organizational analysis looks at training needs in light of the

management's support for training activities

Training designed to prepare employees to perform their jobs effectively, learn about the organization, and establish work relationships is known as:

orientation

Which of the following refers to providing trainees with continued practice far beyond the point when the task has been performed correctly several times?

over learning

A small company that manufactures special-order wood furniture has kept its employees busy on a 40-hour-a-week schedule for the past two years. The company just received the largest contract in its history from a Saudi company opening offices in the area. There is no expectation of repeat business from the Saudi company. In order to complete the contract in the required six months, additional skilled woodworking people power is needed. Under these circumstances, to avoid an expected labor shortage, the best option would be:

overtime

The largest share of new employees hired come from which external source?

referrals

One of the criteria used to define "equal" by the Equal Pay Act of 1963 is:

responsibility

Student ratings of teaching effectiveness measure:

satisfaction

Which of the following HR functions is benefitted by online simulations that can measure a candidate's ability to deal with real-life business challenges?

selection

Which of the following types of human learning techniques is characterized by modeling the behavior of others?

social learning

Ultimately, the test is in the best position to determine the face validity of a test or measure

taker

In terms of the Job Characteristics Model, the degree to which a job requires completing a "whole" piece of work from beginning to end is:

task identity

Questions such as "Where did people who were in each job category go?" and "Where did people now in each job category come from?" can best be answered by

transitional matrix.

The extent to which a researcher is actually measuring what she/he intends to measure is referred to as:

validity

A typing test for an administrative assistant job is an example of a:

work sample test.