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I/O Psych
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
09/23/2007

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Knowledge
Definition
Is what a person needs to know to do a specific job.
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Skill
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Is what a person is able to do on the job
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Ability
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Is a person's aptitude to do/learn job task.
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Other personal characteristics
Definition
Include anything relevant to do the job not covered in other three categories.
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Subject matter experts
Definition
Job incumbents, supervisors
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Essential Functions
Definition
actions which must be done to perform job.
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What is Job analysis??
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Is a systematic way to gather and analyze information about the content and the human requirements of jobs, and the contextin which jobs are performed
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Job-oriented approach
Definition
provides information about the nature of task done on the job. focuses on the task, duties and repsonsibilities peroformed in a job
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Person-oriented job analysis
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provides a description of the attributes, characteristics, or KSAO's necessary for a person to successfully perform a particular job
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pyschological Test
Definition
A sample of behavior assessed under standardiazed conditions to measure characteristics of people.
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Personality Test
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A test designed to assess peoples patterns of behaviors for feelings.
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Personality Trait
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The tendency of a person to engage in certain types of behavior or respond to situations in particular ways.
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psychometor ability test
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A psychological test designed to assess physical abilities such as eye to hand coordination.
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Protected Class
Definition
Group of people who are given special legal protection b/c of past discrimination against them.
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Predictive validation study
Definition
a study in which predictor information is used to forecast a criterion that is assessed at a later time.
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Acheivement Test
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A psychological test designed to assess a person's level of knowledge or skill; also called a knowledge or skill test.
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Work sample
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A test that inlcudes task from a job.
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Leaderless group exercise
Definition
An assessment center exercise in which assesses are placed in a group w/o a leader to observe their interpersonal behavior.
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Assessment center
Definition
A series ofassessment exercise, inlcuding simulators ofwork task, that are used to assess a persons potential for a job. They are most frequently used to determine an employees suitability for promotion into a management position.
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Intergrity Test
Definition
A paper-pencil test designed to predict employee counter productive behavior.
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Cognitive ability Test
Definition
Test that assess cognitive or mental abilities, such as mathmatical or verbal reasoning. The most commonly used are intelligence test.
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Tailored Testing
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Selects the specific items given to a test taker according to the persons ability level.
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Role Play exercise
Definition
requires that the assesse pretend to be a particular personin a specific organizational role.
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Rational biological Inventory
Definition
A biographical inventory based on theory and research concerning the prior experiences that would be expected to relate to job performance.
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Empirical Biolgraphical Inventory
Definition
A biographical inventory developed statistically by conducting analysis of a large number of items to see which ones predict job performance.
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In-basket-exercise
Definition
A simulation exercise used in an assessment center; asks the assessee to show what he or she would do with a series of items that might be found in a managers in-basket
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Biological Inventory
Definition
A selection tool in which the job applicant provides extensive background information.
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Concurrent validation study
Definition
A validation strategy in which the predictor and criterion are assessed at the same time
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Predictive validation study
Definition
A study in which predictor information is used to forecast a criterion that is assessed at a later time.
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Validity generalization
Definition
validities of selection devices are generalizable or transportable from job to job and organization to organization
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Cafeteria benefits
Definition
employees are allowed to choose their benefits from a long list of possibilites, such as different types of health insurance policies.
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Realistic job preview
Definition
used to give job applicants accurate information about the job and the organization.
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Base rate
Definition
percentage of applicants who would be hired if all of them were hired for job, X
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Selection ratio
Definition
proportion of applicants which must be hired
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Utility analysis
Definition
used to show how better selection can improve organizational performance.
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Validity
Definition
Magnitude of correlation between predictor and criterion
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
Definition
expanded legal protection against discrimination and provided a mechanisim to enforce it.
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Protected classes
Definition
Groups with special legal status based on past history of discrimination against them.
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Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection
Definition
a document produced by U.S government that describes appropriate and legally defensible selection procedures
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Adverse Impact
Definition
potential unfairness in the treatment of minority group or protected class members. In hiring it occurs if the protected class's selection ratio is less than four-fiths of the nonprotected class's selection ratio.
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Affirmative Action
Definition
A program designed to increase the number of minority or protected class memebers in an organization
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