MGI301 Text 6

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What is the aim of employee selection?
To achieve person job fit
____ _____ _____ means matching the knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies that are required for performing the job with the applicant's knowledge, skills, abilities and competencies.
Person job fit
What are five reasons that employee selection is important?
  1. It should lead to improved employee and organizational performance.
  2. Your own performance always depends partly on your subordinates
  3. Screening helps reduce dysfunctional behaviors at work
  4. It is costly to recruit and hire employees
  5. Effective screening is important because of two big legal implications of inept selection.
What are two big legal implications of inept selection?
Violating discriminating laws is one potential legal problem Negligent hiring is the second problem
________ __________ hiring employees with criminal records without proper safeguards.
Negligent hiring
What are the different ways to protect ones business against negligent hiring claims?
  1. Carefully scrutinize all information supplied by the applicant on his or her employment application, such as unexplained gaps in employment
  2. Get the applicant's written authorization for reference checks and carefully check references.
  3. Save all record and information you obtain about the applicant
  4. Reject applicants who make false statements of material facts or who have conviction records for offenses directly related and important to the job in question
  5. Take immediate disciplinary action if problems arise.
Any test or screening tool has two important characteristics. What are they?
Validity and reliability.
____________ refers to the test's consistency
Reliability
What are the different ways one can measure validity?
  • Test retest reliability estimates-administer a test to a group of people one day, readminister the same test several days later to the same, and then correlate the first set of scores with the second
  • Equivalent or alternate form estimate- You could administer a test and then administer what experts believe to be an equivalent test later.
  • Internal comparison estimate- Compare the test taker's answers to multiple questions on the same test aimed at measuring the same thing.
What causes a test to be unreliable?
  1. Physical conditions
  2. differences in the test taker
  3. differences in the people administering the test
  4. the questions might do a poor job of sampling the material.
It is common to jude a test's reliability in terms of a _____ ____________.
Correlation coefficient
What does a correlation coefficient do?
Shows the degree to which the two measures are related
What is validity?
Tells you whether the test is measuring what you think it's supposed to be measuring.
Test validity answers what question?
Does this test measure what it's supposed to measure?
Validity refers to the...
Confidence one has in the meaning attached to the scores.