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Course Introduction
Human Capital Management explores the strategic approach to acquiring, developing, and retaining an organization's most valuable asset its people. The course examines current theories and best practices in recruitment, talent management, workforce planning, performance appraisal, training and development, compensation, and employee relations. Students will analyze how aligning human capital strategies with business objectives enhances organizational effectiveness, drives innovation, and sustains competitive advantage in dynamic business environments. Ethical, legal, and technological considerations in managing human resources are also discussed to prepare students for real-world challenges in diverse organizational settings.
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Human Resource Selection 7th Edition by Robert Gatewood
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Chapter 1: An Introduction to Selection
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Q1) The purpose of recruiting is
A)to increase the success rate of the selection process by increasing the number of total applicants (both qualified and unqualified).
B)to meet the organization's legal and social obligation by establishing minority quotas.
C)to increase the pool of candidates regardless of cost.
D)to attract people and increase the probability that they will accept a position if it is offered.
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following statements concerning promotion is correct?
A)Candidates for promotion are external to the firm
B)Candidates for promotion are internal to the firm
C)Candidates for promotion are well qualified
D)Candidates for promotion can be both internal and external to the firm
Answer: B
Q3) An application form is a poor way to collect information on applicant KSAs.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Legal Issues in Selection
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Q1) The Civil Rights Act of 1991 amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) An affirmative action goal is the same as a quota.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q3) Which of the following is the rule-of-thumb used by the courts to determine discrimination?
A)the three-fourths rule
B)the four-fifths rule
C)the standard determination rule
D)the proportional differences test
Answer: B
Q4) All federal government contractors must have affirmative action plans.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Human Resource Measurement in Selection
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Q1) "Level A" tests:
A)require some formal training and knowledge of psychological testing concepts to properly score and interpret.
B)require very little formal training to administer, score, and interpret the results.
C)require no formal training to administer, score, and interpret the results.
D)require the most extensive preparation on the part of the test administrator.
Answer: B
Q2) Classifying individuals based on dichotomous categories (e.g.,male/female)is using a nominal scale of measurement.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) It is the manner in which the criterion is measured,not the criterion itself,that determines level of measurement.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Reliability of Selection Measures
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Q1) If our standard error is 3.16 and the difference between two applicants' scores is 3,then it is possible that the difference in scores is due to chance.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Unreliable performance by a respondent on a reliable measure is possible,but reliable performance on an unreliable measure is impossible.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In order to calculate an intraclass correlation,how many raters are necessary?
A)2
B)2 or more
C)more than 2
D)any number will do
Q4) If variability or individual differences increase among respondents while variation within individuals remains the same,reliability will increase.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Why are there so many different ways to estimate reliability?
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Chapter 5: Validity of Selection Procedures
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Q1) The magnitude of a validity coefficient indicates the _____________ of association between a predictor and criterion.
A)direction
B)strength
C)range
D)amplitude
Q2) Which of the following is a factor that would be most likely to affect the usefulness of a concurrent validation study?
A)pay level of employees who participate in the study
B)marital status of employees who participate in the study
C)job tenure of employees who participate in the study
D)the geographical location of the organization
Q3) Cross-validation is necessary because of which of the following problems associated with predictive accuracy?
A)shrinkage
B)inflation
C)bias
D)contamination
Q4) Why is a test neither valid nor invalid? Explain.
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Chapter 6: Strategies for Selection Decision Making
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Q1) The combination method of selection decision making combines which of the following methods?
A)multiple cutoff; multiple regression
B)multiple cutoff; profile matching
C)multiple regression; profile matching
D)multiple cutoff; multiple hurdles
Q2) A fire department selects 50 recruits each year out of 300 applicants.Which selection decision making model is probably most appropriate in this situation? Why?
Q3) A mechanical combination of data yields better results than a judgmental combination for making selection decisions.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Predictors are not additive
A)Multiple regression
B)Multiple cutoffs
C)Multiple hurdle
D)Combination method
E)profile matching
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Chapter 7: Job Analysis in Human Resource Selection
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Q1) One or two experts are preferable over a large (10-20 person)panel of job experts when forming the KSA rating panel.
A)True
B)False
Q2) How do you conduct a job analysis for a team job in which the team member is asked to play multiple roles,be cross-trained,and perform different tasks based upon the needs of the moment?
Q3) A questionnaire listing a large number of tasks associated with a job for which respondents make judgments is known as:
A)a job analysis interview.
B)a task analysis inventory.
C)a position analysis questionnaire.
D)a job element method.
Q4) Job analysis data have been used in all of the following HR areas EXCEPT:
A)compensation.
B)training.
C)performance appraisal.
D)inter-rater reliability.
Q5) Identify the legal standards used to judge the adequacy of a job analysis.
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Chapter 8: Recruitment of Applicants
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Q1) What is the difference between selection and hiring?
Q2) One means organizations can use to manage image is by tailoring their recruitment strategies and methods to communicate the kind of brand or image they wish to portray to applicants.
A)True
B)False
Q3) When the quality of information upon which applicants base their decisions is accurate dysfunctional behaviors are more likely to result.
A)True
B)False
Q4) __________________ is aimed at groups such as those defined by certain demographic or psychological characteristics.
A)Open recruiting
B)Targeted recruiting
C)Pigeon-hole recruiting
D)Geriatric recruiting
Q5) The last part of recruiting is to determine the cost of recruiting.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Application Forms and Biodata Assessments,
training and Experience Evaluations, and Reference Checks
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Q1) Which of the following can an employer do to show that application form items do not unfairly discriminate among applicants?
A)show written proof that the items were not intended to discriminate
B)show that most employers use the same items
C)show that the items came from a reputable reference source such as this textbook
D)show that the questions represent a bona fide occupational requirement
Q2) Which of the following is not a step involved in the development of a BIB?
A)selecting the model employee
B)analyzing the job
C)scoring the biodata form
D)developing a pool of biodata items
Q3) It is recommended to use multiple application forms for different types of jobs in an organization.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What was your maiden name?
A)Appropriate
B)Inappropriate
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Chapter 10: The Selection Interview
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Q1) Many nonverbal behaviors,such as eye contact,head movement,smiling,etc.which could influence interviewers' decisions have not been found to be related to favorable interview decisions.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Training programs can reduce some of the more common interviewer errors,such as contrast,halo,leniency,and central tendency.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A recent research study found that applicants clearly retained more information about the position from a mixed-focus interview than from the recruitment-only interview.
A)True
B)False
Q4) To measure KSAs related to sociability and interpersonal interaction,KSAs should be stated in general terms,such as "poise," "friendliness," "pleasantness," or "professional bearing."
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Ability Tests for Selection
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Q1) Why did the growing use of ability tests come to an abrupt halt during the late 1960s and 1970s?
A)because ability tests were becoming more costly to administer to large numbers of applicants
B)because other, more valid predictors of job performance became available
C)because of EEO laws and early Supreme Court decisions that specifically addressed a few of the most popular of these tests
D)because research evidence questioned the validity of these tests for predicting job performance
Q2) A score obtained from a general mental ability test is as good a predictor of job performance as is a composite score obtained from a test of specific abilities using multiple scales.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Otis Self-Administering Test of Mental Ability was the first group-administered mental ability test to have widespread use in industry.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Personality Assessment for Selection
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Q1) Performance in jobs that are very structured in terms of work behaviors would seem to be less related to personality than those that are unstructured.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Forced-choice measures of personality require test-takers to choose the most liked item of two to four equally desirable items.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In powerful situations,individual behavior is more attributable to the known situational roles than to individual traits.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In interviews the most frequently measured personality trait is:
A)agreeableness.
B)conscientiousness.
C)integrity.
D)punctuality.
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Chapter 13: Performance Tests and Assessment Centers for Selection
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Q1) Which of the following is a limitation in the use of performance tests?
A)Much care must be taken in the construction of work sample tests to ensure their representativeness of job activity.
B)Inferences of the applicant's future job performance must be made from only verbal information.
C)The carryover from verbal description to job performance needed in performance tests is not always complete.
D)The data are subject to willing distortion or faking by the applicant.
Q2) When would it be reasonable to include personal computer skill in an assessment center?
Q3) Which of the following is a criticism of assessment centers?
A)lack of validity
B)adverse impact
C)very expensive to develop and maintain
D)lack of acceptance by organizations
Q4) In assessment centers,correlations among dimensions that are measured with the same exercise are very low.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Integrity Testing, drug Testing, and Graphology
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Q1) It is acceptable to exempt some employees from drug testing because it is obvious that they are not taking drugs.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Research has shown that the "typical" employee-thief does not engage in many of the common rationalizations for theft.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The relationship between integrity measures and cognitive ability may depend on which factors of integrity are measured by a test.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Most polygraph examiners make an overall judgment of lying based solely on the polygraph information.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How could you assess the validity of an honesty test in a small organization?
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Chapter 15: Measures of Job Performance
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Q1) Why are criterion measurement issues as important as predictor measurement issues in selection?
Q2) All of the following are characteristics that help ensure that the criterion has the information that is necessary for conducting a sound validation study EXCEPT:
A)relevance.
B)measurability.
C)variance.
D)contamination.
Q3) Selection specialists generally prefer to use job performance data in validation that are collected primarily for other personnel/human resource management purposes,since they are likely to be less biased.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The training proficiency measure is influenced more by organizational factors than the workers' KSAs.
A)True
B)False
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