Ch 10 Decision Making
Which of the following is NOT a constraint or a competing demand employers must
contend with when making selection decisions? - answersan oversupply of applicants
In organizations that select candidates for the organization rather than for specific jobs,
which of the following is NOT required? - answershaving strong external hiring policies
Some organizations collect and combine applicant information from objective sources,
such as tests or biographical inventories, and the decision maker examines these data
to form an overall, subjective impression of the applicant's suitability for the job. Which
of the following terms refers to this approach? - answersprofile interpretation
What type of theories are personal beliefs that are held about how people or things
function, without objective evidence and often without conscious awareness? -
answersimplicit
What type of error occurs when an applicant who is assessed favourably turns out to be
a poor choice? - answersfalse positive error
Which concept refers to making an acceptable or adequate choice rather than the best
or optimal choice? - answerssatisficing
Which concept refers to the process in which statistical data are combined in a
judgmental manner? - answersprofile interpretation
Which approach to collecting and combining applicant information involves the decision
maker forming an overall impression of the applicant based on gut feelings or implicit
theories, rather than on explicit, objective criteria? - answersthe pure judgment
approach
In which approach are judgmental data combined statistically? - answerstrait rating
In which approach are data combined statistically? - answerspure statistical
In which approach to collecting and combining applicant information are a number of
judgmental ratings made based on various sources of information? - answerstrait rating
, For employers who tend to have a holistic, intuitive decision-making style, what might
convince them to use statistical approaches in the selection process? - answersmore
evidence and training
Which of the following does NOT reduce the objectivity of group decisions? -
answersorganizational culture
What might team members of a selection committee uncover by discussing their
rationales for candidate ratings during the selection process? - answersbiases and
errors
Which concept refers to the value, in terms of increased validity, of adding a particular
predictor to an existing selection system? - answersincremental validity
Which of the following is NOT related to the statistical composite approach? -
answerscombining data in a judgmental manner
What is the term for the threshold at which those scoring at or above the score will pass,
and those scoring below will fail? - answerscutoff score
Which concept refers to the proportion of applicants who are hired for one or more
positions? - answersselection ratio
Regarding admission to most general undergraduate university degree programs, what
grade cutoff was established by convention in the last decade? - answers50 percent
What is the simplest way of combining applicant information in the selection process? -
answersAdd the scores together.
According to the textbook, which of the following is NOT a predictor score for a sales
applicant? - answersintroversion scale
The following is a decision-making model in which applicants must pass the minimum
cut-off for each predictor, in turn, before being assessed on the next predictor. As soon
as an applicant fails to meet the cutoff on a given predictor, what model will the
applicant NOT be assessed with, given the remaining predictors? - answersmultiple
hurdle
How are implicit theories defined? - answersThey are theories about how certain
behaviours, mannerisms, or personality characteristics go together without objective
evidence.
For four months you have been employed as the part-time HRM for TS Inc., a small
Canadian aviation company. In the past, recruitment and selection rested on the
shoulders of the president and, like most small companies, TS Inc. used employee
referrals and an informal interview processes in selecting employees. Since you have
Which of the following is NOT a constraint or a competing demand employers must
contend with when making selection decisions? - answersan oversupply of applicants
In organizations that select candidates for the organization rather than for specific jobs,
which of the following is NOT required? - answershaving strong external hiring policies
Some organizations collect and combine applicant information from objective sources,
such as tests or biographical inventories, and the decision maker examines these data
to form an overall, subjective impression of the applicant's suitability for the job. Which
of the following terms refers to this approach? - answersprofile interpretation
What type of theories are personal beliefs that are held about how people or things
function, without objective evidence and often without conscious awareness? -
answersimplicit
What type of error occurs when an applicant who is assessed favourably turns out to be
a poor choice? - answersfalse positive error
Which concept refers to making an acceptable or adequate choice rather than the best
or optimal choice? - answerssatisficing
Which concept refers to the process in which statistical data are combined in a
judgmental manner? - answersprofile interpretation
Which approach to collecting and combining applicant information involves the decision
maker forming an overall impression of the applicant based on gut feelings or implicit
theories, rather than on explicit, objective criteria? - answersthe pure judgment
approach
In which approach are judgmental data combined statistically? - answerstrait rating
In which approach are data combined statistically? - answerspure statistical
In which approach to collecting and combining applicant information are a number of
judgmental ratings made based on various sources of information? - answerstrait rating
, For employers who tend to have a holistic, intuitive decision-making style, what might
convince them to use statistical approaches in the selection process? - answersmore
evidence and training
Which of the following does NOT reduce the objectivity of group decisions? -
answersorganizational culture
What might team members of a selection committee uncover by discussing their
rationales for candidate ratings during the selection process? - answersbiases and
errors
Which concept refers to the value, in terms of increased validity, of adding a particular
predictor to an existing selection system? - answersincremental validity
Which of the following is NOT related to the statistical composite approach? -
answerscombining data in a judgmental manner
What is the term for the threshold at which those scoring at or above the score will pass,
and those scoring below will fail? - answerscutoff score
Which concept refers to the proportion of applicants who are hired for one or more
positions? - answersselection ratio
Regarding admission to most general undergraduate university degree programs, what
grade cutoff was established by convention in the last decade? - answers50 percent
What is the simplest way of combining applicant information in the selection process? -
answersAdd the scores together.
According to the textbook, which of the following is NOT a predictor score for a sales
applicant? - answersintroversion scale
The following is a decision-making model in which applicants must pass the minimum
cut-off for each predictor, in turn, before being assessed on the next predictor. As soon
as an applicant fails to meet the cutoff on a given predictor, what model will the
applicant NOT be assessed with, given the remaining predictors? - answersmultiple
hurdle
How are implicit theories defined? - answersThey are theories about how certain
behaviours, mannerisms, or personality characteristics go together without objective
evidence.
For four months you have been employed as the part-time HRM for TS Inc., a small
Canadian aviation company. In the past, recruitment and selection rested on the
shoulders of the president and, like most small companies, TS Inc. used employee
referrals and an informal interview processes in selecting employees. Since you have
