MAN 6365 STAFFING ORGANIZATIONS
Kingston, Jamaica
Take-Home Exam, Summer 2006
Juan I. Sanchez, Ph.D.
This is a developmental exam that provides you with further opportunities to understand
and integrate the material covered in this class. This take-home exam should be answered
individually and independently from other students; your answers will be graded on
originality as well as on correctness, so providing original answers will only help your
grade. Please type your answer to the questions in the spaces provided below each
question. Next to the spaces where you should type your answers you will find the
maximum number of CHARACTERS allowed in your answer. It is recommended that you
use the "Word Count" function within "Tools" to find out the number of characters in your
answer (remember that we are talking about "characters with spaces"). When you are
ready to submit your answers (please make sure to save the document including your
answers before you submit it), please email the document as an attachment to the instructor
at sanchezj@fiu.edu
You should email your answers to the instructor by Friday, August 4th at 12:00AM
midnight. Late answers will receive zero points. This exam became available on Sunday,
July 30th. Thus, you have approximately five days to work on this exam. With very few
exceptions, there is more than one correct answer to these questions. The questions are
self-explanatory, and therefore you should not contact the instructor for clues regarding
correct answers.
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SECTION ONE: ANSWER ONE OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS (5 points)
1-1. In the person/organization match, organizational values are as important as the
KSAOs required by the job. Why?
1-2. A pure developmental staffing strategy would involve hiring just about anyone.
When is a purely developmental staffing strategy recommendable?
1-3.The recruitment and hiring process is an important part of the employment
relationship. How can selection strain the employment relationship?
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1-3
SECTION TWO: ANSWER ONE OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS (5 points)
2-1. According to the validity generalization hypothesis, when should one validate a
test?
2-2. What is test “banding”?
2-3. What is the difference between predictive and concurrent validity?
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SECTION THREE: ANSWER ONE OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS (5 points)
3-1. What types, sources, and methods of data and data collection would you recommend
for a job involving lots of physical activity and poorly educated incumbents (justify your
answers).
3-2. Discuss every important factor that should be taken into account when drawing a
sample of employees for a job analysis.
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SECTION FOUR: ANSWER ONE OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS (10 points)
4-1. Your employer has conducted a criterion-related validity study showing that a
weighted application blank predicts employee turnover. However, some applicants are
complaining about the inclusion of questions about their past on the application blank; they
argue that "people change” and that “past behavior is not always a good predictor of future
behavior." What would you tell them to defend the use of the application blank?
4-2. An organization plans to use multiple predictors or selection techniques as part of its
selection process of customer service agents. Describe the characteristics that these
predictors should have to make their combined use worthwhile.
4-3. To deal with its inventory shrinkage problem, an employer is considering adopting an
integrity test that asks overt integrity questions such as "estimate the value of the office
supplies that you have taken home from work in the last three years." However, the
employer is concerned about demonstrating the validity of such a test. Formulate a plan to
validate this test for the employer.
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SECTION FIVE: ANSWER ONE OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS (5 points)
5-1. In the assessment center technique, a group exercise that does not assign roles to
participants is probably best suited to evaluate what kinds of managerial competencies and
why?
5-2. Describe the aspects of the candidates’ personal and family situation that you would
evaluate in selecting an expatriate manager? How would you justify the validity of such
evaluations?
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