HRM - Test 2

Which of the following is true of the learning outcomes of different training methods?

Blended learning can be an effective training method for geographically dispersed trainees.

________ are people who apply for a vacancy without prompting from the organization.

Direct applicants

Leticia recently revised some questions in her company's personality inventory test to add the contextualizing term "at work." How did this revision affect the validity coefficient of these items?

It increased from .10 to .25.

Which of the following statements is true about recruiters' role in the recruitment process?

Realistic job previews by recruiters lower expectations and can help reduce future turnover in the workforce.

Which of the following is true of the reliability of several personnel selection methods?

Reliability of physical ability tests is high.

Which of the following acts sets strict rules for businesses, especially for accounting practices that require more open and consistent disclosure of financial data and CEOs' assurance that the data is completely accurate?

Sarbanes-Oxley Act

________ provide a risk-free environment in which to teach production and process skills as well as management and interpersonal skills.

Simulations

Farik wants to practice his new soft skills of customer service. He is an introvert and practicing with a coworker makes him nervous. His manager suggests trying simulations. Why?

They are methods used to represent real-life situations.

Which of the following observations is true about scattergrams?

They help employees determine whether the relationship between two variables or events is positive, negative, or zero.

Which of the following is true of one-way linkage?

This level often leads to strategic plans that the company cannot successfully implement.

In the war for talent, some employers who try to entice one new employee from a competitor will often try to leverage that one person to try to entice even more people away. This practice of trying to recruit a whole team of people is referred to as

a liftout

Pat is an expert trainer and has planned an outside assignment for his trainees. He has asked them to create a marketing strategy for a new degree program at a college. As a team, they have to decide on a budget, draw or write a catchy graphic or phrase, create a flyer, and present their plan to the board of directors. Pat has his trainees engaged in

action learning

Qualities such as being emotionally stable, nondepressed, secure, and content are examples of the ________ dimension of personality.

adjustment

Which of the following personnel selection methods has a high criterion-related validity and a low content validity?

biographical information

Safety rules and electrical principles are measured using ________ outcomes.

cognitive

Reliability is the

consistency of a performance measure.

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

correlation coefficient

Marcy is going to accept a post in her Russian office. In order to help her and her family adjust to Russian culture and expectations, they are going through

cross-cultural preparation

The planned elimination of large numbers of personnel designed to enhance organizational effectiveness is called

downsizing

If an organization wants to improve the work environment factor that influences the motivation to learn, it is likely to focus on

encouraging employees to give feedback to each other

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

false

Frank is a baby boomer and his boss is expecting that he will retire at age 65. This is an appropriate expectation.

false

Quality-based performance methods are quite easy to develop and are generalizable across a variety of jobs, strategies, and organizations.

false

In a large, multinational company, several of the tasks are split out across several states and countries. Each location has a specific component of the overall product. An employee survey recently revealed that employees had a weak conceptualization of the company's overall mission. This company has a

functional structure.

Which of the following stages in human resource planning is critical, with the many options available to a planner differing widely in their expense, speed, effectiveness, amount of human suffering, and revocability?

goal setting and strategic planning

Carlos, a psychology student, has had an overall negative impression of his psychology professor. As a consequence, during the end-of-term appraisal, he rates his professor low on all performance criteria. Which of the following rater errors has Carlos committed?

horns

Behavior modeling training is best for improving ________ skills.

interpersonal

In which performance technique are managers given three statements of performance per dimension and asked to indicate whether an employee's performance is above (+), at (0), or below (−) the statements?

mixed-standard scale

Timor has been asked to determine the supply and demand for professional executives with social justice experience. He will most likely use which planning strategy?

personnel forecasting

The ________ evaluation design is necessary if a manager wants to equate the effect of two training programs.

pretest/posttest with comparison group

Section 1982 of the Civil Rights Act passed in 1866 granted all persons the

same property rights as white citizens.

Which of the following options for avoiding an expected labor shortage is a slow solution and has low revocability?

technological innovation

In the context of factors that influence the motivation to learn, when an organization seeks to convince employees that they can successfully learn the content of a training program, the organization is primarily focusing on improving

the self-efficacy of the employees

Image advertising is often effective because job applicants develop ideas about the general reputation of the firm and then this spills over to influence their expectations about the nature of specific jobs at the organization.

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

Thinking strategically, motivating others, and fostering teamwork are all competencies.

true

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

true

When evaluating employees, the most frequently used source is the manager of the unit.

true

The process of determining whether there are any subgroups whose proportion in a given job category within a company is substantially different from their proportion in the relevant labor market is called

workforce utilization review