MAN4320 TEST 2

Which of the following events suggests that a home improvement store such as The Home Depot or Lowe's will need fewer workers in the next one to three years?

a decrease in consumer disposable income.

When a company hired Marcus who turned out to be a poor performer, which assessment outcome occurred?

false positive

Online applications give the candidate real time status information and

flexibility to complete at their own convenience

Filling lower-level positions from the local labor market and higher-level positions from the regional or national labor market is an example of ________.

geographic targeting

Having a low selection ratio means ________.

hiring only a few applicants

A successful executive, who is happy with his/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

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 is ________.

person-job fit

The biggest legal problem with personality tests is based on ________.

privacy issues

When an applicant believes that an assessment method is unfair because it does not give him/her an opportunity to demonstrate job-relevant skills ________.

procedural fairness is low

An engineering firm is looking for a civil engineer to head their new project to build a highway. Unable to find the right candidate for the job, the firm resorts to scouting for potential candidates among the employees of rival firms. It offers the assistant chief engineer of its rival firm an extremely lucrative package and the chance to assume greater responsibilities. This practice is known as ________.

pull-up hire

Which of the following means of sourcing talent is sometimes considered unethical?

raiding

A formal document detailing the process to be followed when a firm recruits for an open position is a ________.

recruiting plan

Which of the following is a way in which many organizations try reduce their need for skills that will be in short supply for a number of years?

redesigning jobs

Which of the following visually shows each of the possible successors for a job and summarizes their strengths, past performance, promotion readiness, and development needs?

replacement charts

When a union organizer tries to get a job with a company for the purpose of unionizing the company's workforce, this is known as ________.

salting

Retainer firms are ________.

search firms who charge employers a fixed fee in advance of placement

Skills inventories are databases of the skills, competencies, and other relevant characteristics of each employee.

True

Spillover effects can be either positive or negative in nature.

True

The most comprehensive source of free data on conditions in the U.S. labor market is the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

True

Well- designed assessment tools in hiring can affect the revenue and bottom line of a company.

True

Which of the following would result in peer ratings being a successful method of internal assessment in a firm?

Work in the firm is done in teams.

Recruiters are seen as setting the standard for talent for the company.

True

Scatter plots show graphically how two different variables are related.

True

A clinical assessment puts job candidates through a series of simulations and exercises that reflect the typical challenges of the job.

False

A persistent problem that prevents most firms from hiring people with disabilities is the lack of affordable technologies that could enable firms to accommodate them at a low cost.

False

A recruit's perception of the recruiter's knowledge has little impact on how attractive a job is.

False

Cognitive ability tests are one of the least valid selection methods.

False

Early retirement programs are a common way of dealing with temporary employee surpluses.

False

Evaluative assessment methods are used to narrow down a pool of job candidates to a smaller group of candidates.

False

For a specific organization, the turnover rate is always constant.

False

Higher staffing efficiency percentages reflect greater staffing efficiency.

False

Peer ratings tend to do a poor job predicting promotion criteria.

False

Succession management cannot be used to enhance organizational diversity.

False

Succession management means identifying specific back-up candidates for specific senior management positions.

False

The advantage of using self-assessment is that people are often good judges of their own talents.

False

Transition analysis is a qualitative technique.

False

Which of the following is true of transition analysis?

It assumes that all employees in a job have an equal probability of movement.

Which of the following statements is true of a recruitment guide?

It details which staff members are responsible for recruiting.

Which of the following is a benefit of social networking as a sourcing method?

It increases diversity of talent available.

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

It is positively related to job satisfaction.

________ rely on trained psychologists to subjectively analyze a candidate's attributes, values, and styles in the context of a particular job.

Clinical assessments

If a company wanted to quickly identify which employees speak Spanish, what would be the best way to do this?

Query the company's skills inventory system

________ is(are) used to reenergize employees and give them the opportunity to develop skills and pursue other interests via workshops, formal classes, or travel.

Sabbaticals

Which of the following, if true, would require a company to make adjustments to its historical employee-productivity ratios?

The company is adopting a more efficient manufacturing system.

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.

Persuasion is an important recruiter skill, and in order to persuade an individual to consider leaving a job she or he is happy with, the message must come from a trusted and credible individual.

True

Psychomotor tests assess a person's capacity to manipulate and control objects.

True

Realistic job previews can help counter inaccurate employer images.

True

What is the disadvantage of getting line managers to recruit for a firm?

They have to take time out from their actual jobs.

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

Trend analysis

Applicant flow is the number and type of applicants coming from each recruiting source.

True

Asking job candidates for a mechanic position, "have you ever repaired small motors at home?" is an example of a biodata question.

True

Becoming an employer of choice may increase the number of unqualified or inappropriate applicants.

True

Bottom-up judgmental forecasting uses the input of lower-level managers to estimate the firm's total staffing requirements.

True

Career planning is a continuous process of self-assessment and goal setting.

True

Career sites are cost-effective and enable an organization to communicate its job requirements and values to all applicants.

True

Effectively using technology can improve applicant reactions and promote positive spillover effects.

True

Employee profiling identifies the firm's successful high performing employees and how similar candidates can be recruited.

True

Forecasting is not an exact science, and it is rare for a forecast to be exactly correct. Given this uncertainty, it is usually best to use the previous period's data and add or reduce some percentage value based upon managerial intuition.

True

If new competitors enter an industry, customers will have greater product choices, which will tend to dilute the demand for any one company's products or services.

True

Involving customers and external stakeholders in the interview process can increase the job fit with candidates.

True

Multisource assessments involve the employee's supervisor as well as other sources that are familiar with an employee's job performance.

True

Adam has joined an advertising firm as a junior executive. Due to his lack of experience, he has a lot to learn and has been assigned as a protégé to Mark, a senior executive in the firm, who will assist in training and assessing his performance. This process of internal assessment is called ________.

a mentoring program

Which of the following would be most useful for a firm needing to quickly reassign employees to an important new project?

a talent inventory

A new college graduate looking for his or her first job is a(n) ________.

active job seeker

When should medical tests be administered?

after a job offer has been extended

A company cannot know what training to offer employees unless it ________.

assesses their strengths and weaknesses

Internal assessment typically improves a firm's strategic capabilities by ________.

assisting "blocked" employees to improve their performance

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

background check

An HR manager asked every candidate during an interview to describe a situation in the past in which they had to display their leadership abilities even though they were not a formal leader, discuss what they did, and describe the result. This is an example of which external assessment method?

behavioral interview

Asking applicants what sports they like to play is an example of which external assessment method?

biodata

Typically, when interest rates rise,

businesses are less likely to expand.

A nine box matrix requires assessing employees on ________.

current job performance and future potential

Which of the following is more likely to warrant changes in an organization's compensation policy to offer above-market wages?

decreasing unemployment rates.

Which of the following do corporate executives use to form an image of a specific organization?

economic performance indicators

Which of the following refers to the training of employees to extend their capabilities and prepare them to assume other jobs and roles in the firm?

employee development

Effective staffing enhances the degree to which a(n) ________.

employee meets a job's requirements

Which of the following external recruiting sources is useful for finding semi-passive and passive job seekers?

internet data mining

The use of social media for recruiting and sourcing will continue to increase due to ________.

its targeted search capability

Which of the following is a type of cognitive ability test?

mathematical reasoning

Which of the following recruitment strategies can help an organization reduce labor costs and improve customer service together with accessing top talent?

offshoring

The higher the fidelity of a job simulation test, the higher is the ________.

similarity between the real job and the test

Which term refers to the proportion of applicants moving from one stage of the hiring process to the next?

staffing yields

Which of the following raters is often the most controversial feature of a multisource assessment?

subordinates

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

succession management

When a restaurant hires a server who has similar competencies to the existing servers, this is an example of ________.

supplementary fit

Behavioral interviews are more reliable and substantially better than ________ at predicting job performance.

unstructured interviews