What is Mating theory?

 a. employers seek employees

b. employees seek employers

 c. both employers and employees seek each other

 d. neither employers nor employees seek each other

 c. both employers and employees seek each other

Cost efficiency is a major advantage for the point-of-purchase recruitment method.

(T/F)

True

  What is one condition that must be satisfied for applicant and organization to meet?

–  EITHER: Common communication medium, organization and applicant must be perceived as a match, job seeker must be motivated to apply

What is “realistic job preview?”

– Any part of the selection process that gives the applicant a clear idea of what it will be like to work at the job if they are hired.

Is it better to have short or long time lapses in recruitment planning?

Short

What is graphology?

 A. Study of graphs

b. study of maps

c. study of the economy

d. study of handwriting

d. study of handwriting

    What is one way a company can avoid legal issues with drug screening?

EITHER: Inform of policy, include in contracts, present in med/safe context

What kinds of information that can be obtained from letters of recommendations?

 (name 3)

Employment history, educational history, applicants character/personality, job performance ability, willingness to rehire

  Written recommendations are considered to be of little value because they often include unfavorable information.

(T/F)

False

   Application blank is the most commonly used selection procedure.

(T/F)

True

      The “Big Five” can be identified with the acronym O.C.E.A.N. This stands for openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism

 (T/F)

True

     When r = .00, using the test results in a success rate equal to the validity coefficient.

 (T/F)

False

      One reason an employee referral program is effective is that the employee can help socialize their friend once they are hired.

(T/F)

True

     What is prospecting theory?

one party (employee or employer) is actively seeking out the other

     An organization shouldn’t capitalize on any special factors that are likely to attract candidates.

 (T/F)

False

  Name 3 external job recruitment strategies.

ANY OF: Newspaper ads, TV and radio, point-of-purchase, recruiters, employee referral programs, direct mail, internet, job fairs

     What is one way to overcome response distortion in application blank?

 EITHER: Ask for objective verifiable info, warn of presence of lie scale, ask applicant to elaborate on answers

    The Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988 makes it illegal to directly or indirectly require an employee to take a polygraph

(T/F)

True

  A measure is always useful if it is both reliable and valid. (T/F)

False

Goss Cost Per Hire is calculated by total cost of

recruiting / # individuals hired.

(T/F)

True

    What is not true about integrity tests?

 A. expensive

b. easy to administer

c. good predictive validity

d. males and younger people have higher fail rates

 A. expensive

  In the Brogden-Cronbach-Gleser utility formula, SDy = maximum salary.

 (T/F)

False

     Who rates performance?

 a. Peers

 b. subordinates

c. self

d. all of the above

d. all of the above

   An example of an external job recruitment strategy is filling management positions with the best performing employees in lower positions.

 (T/F)

False

  It is perfectly legal to ask an applicant for a waitressing position at Applebee’s what their sexual orientation is.

(T/F)

False

 It is perfectly legal to ask an applicant for a waitressing position at Applebee’s if they are a legal U.S. citizen.

 (T/F)

True

   Taylor-Russell tables tell us what percentage of hires will turn out to have acceptable job performance.

 (T/F)

True