Staffing
Organizations
Dr. Barbara Lyon, SPHR
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Decision
Making
Final Match
Staffing
System
Management
Retention
Management
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A:
Practical significance
Q:
If you are evaluating the usefulness of
a given predictor in predicting job
success, and you are interested in the
value the predictor adds to the
prediction of job success, you want to
know the predictor's what?
($1.00)
A:
Low selection ratio, low base rate,
high validity
Q:
Under which circumstances
is "hiring success gain"
likely to be optimal? ?
($5.00)
A:
Information about internal candidates
tends to be more verifiable than
information about external candidates
Q: In comparing internal
selection with external
selection, an advantage of
internal selection is that?
($10.00)
A: Convert raw scores into standard
scores
Q:
When using multiple predictors and a
compensatory model to make hiring
decisions, and the variables serving
as predictors are measured in
different units of measure, the most
advisable first step is to?
($20.00)
A: Make the hiring decision.
Q:
In terms of who should participate in
selection decision making (i.e., HR
professionals vs. line managers), HR
professionals would be least likely to do
what?
($50.00)
A: The promise was withdrawn,
resulting in a detrimental effect.
Q:
($1.00)
In order to improve the chances of
winning a law suit based on "promissory
estoppel," the most important point the
plaintiff must demonstrate is that ?
A:
Fixed-term.
Q:
A _____ contract provides certainty
to both the new hire and the
organization regarding the length of
the employment relationship?
($5.00)
A: Hot skill premium.
Q: A temporary pay premium added to the
regular base pay of an employee to account for a
temporary market escalation in pay for certain
skills in extreme shortage is called a(n) ?
($10.00)
A: Only managerial, technical, and
scientific staff.
Q:
Non-compete agreements
should be drafted in such a way
that they cover what?
($20.00)
A: Emphasize characteristics like
licensure requirements, criminal
records, and references.
Q:
To reduce the likelihood of negligent
hiring lawsuits organizations should do
what?
($50.00)
A: Clearly communicated decision
criteria.
Q:
($1.00)
Research suggests that
organizational decision making is
seen as most fair when it is based
on?
A: Society for Human Resource
Management.
Q:
($5.00)
Comparative staffing process data
can be obtained from where?
A:Cost, timeliness, outcomes, and
reactions.
Q: The four common types of
staffing metrics evaluate what?
($10.00)
A: More than half
Q: What proportion of disputes
that begin the EEOC mediation
process are eventually resolved
through mediation?
($20.00)
A: Private employers with over 100
employees (50 for federal contractors)
Q:
Who must report to the EEOC
annually?
($50.00)
A: Poor person/organization match
Q: The desirability of leaving an
organization is often an outgrowth
of as what?
($1.00)
A: Manager's time.
Q:
($5.00)
Economic separation costs
associated with voluntary turnover
include what?
A: Link rewards to retention behaviors.
Q:
Guidelines for increasing job
satisfaction and retention include what?
($10.00)
A: Offer "bundles" of HR practices that
complement one another.
Q:
Research most clearly suggests that
when organizations wish to increase
retention they need to do what?
($20.00)
A: Communicated in advance to the
employee.
Q:
From a legal standpoint, if
performance appraisal information is to be
used in the retention management and
termination process for an organization, the
organization needs to ensure that the
information is what?
($50.00)