Recruitment And Selection In Canada 6th Edition By Victor Catano – Test Bank

Chapter 10 Decision Making

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. Which of the following is NOT a constraint or a competing demand employers must contend with when making selection decisions?
a. time pressures
b. satisficing
c. an oversupply of applicants
d. selecting individuals who have adequate information about the job requirements

ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: 469 OBJ: 1
BLM: Remember

2. In organizations that select candidates for the organization rather than for specific jobs, which of the following is NOT required?
a. selecting for organizational fit
b. having strong external hiring policies
c. possessing flexible job descriptions
d. hiring to fill dynamic and changing jobs

ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: 470 OBJ: 1
BLM: Remember

3. 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?
a. pure judgment
b. trait rating
c. profile interpretation
d. pure statistical

ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: 475 OBJ: 3
BLM: Remember

4. What type of theories are personal beliefs that are held about how people or things function, without objective evidence and often without conscious awareness?
a. explicit
b. implicit
c. psychological
d. attribution

ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: 470 OBJ: 2
BLM: Remember

5. What type of error occurs when an applicant who is assessed favourably turns out to be a poor choice?
a. false negative error
b. false positive error
c. leniency error
d. strictness error

ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: 472 OBJ: 2
BLM: Remember

6. Which concept refers to making an acceptable or adequate choice rather than the best or optimal choice?
a. selection bias
b. satisficing
c. sufficiency
d. success rate

ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: 469 OBJ: 1
BLM: Remember

7. Which concept refers to the process in which statistical data are combined in a judgmental manner?
a. pure statistical approach
b. profile interpretation
c. pure judgment approach
d. judgmental composite

ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: 475 OBJ: 3
BLM: Remember

8. 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?
a. the pure judgment approach
b. the trait rating approach
c. the profile interpretation approach
d. the judgmental composite approach

ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: 474 OBJ: 3
BLM: Remember

9. In which approach are judgmental data combined statistically?
a. trait rating
b. profile interpretation
c. judgmental composite
d. pure judgment

ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: 474 OBJ: 3
BLM: Higher Order

10. In which approach are data combined statistically?
a. statistical composite
b. trait rating
c. profile interpretation
d. pure statistical

ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: 475 OBJ: 3
BLM: Higher Order