Question 1

The competition for talent has become intense and you need to make sure that every job applicant who applies for a job will stay interested in the job and will want to work for your organization.What can you do to make sure that job applicants have positive perceptions of the recruitment and selection process and of the organization?

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Question 2

As a new director of human resources, your first major task is to ensure that all employment interviews are structured.You are to meet with all of the staff of human resources to instruct them on how to conduct structured employment interviews.What will you tell them?

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Question 3

The tendency for a rater to give more favourable evaluations to those who he/she finds are similar to him/her in background or attitudes is called the ________.

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Question 4

Interviewers have a tendency to give less importance to ________ information about the applicant.

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Question 5

The employment interview tends to be more structured when the interviewer focuses on ________.

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Question 6

What is the halo effect? Give examples which illustrate how the halo effect might lead to either a favourable or unfavourable rating.

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Question 7

________ training is a method of training to improve rating accuracy for evaluating performance.

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Question 8

Daniel rates all his employees as superstars.Either they are very good or Daniel has committed ________.

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Question 9

Identify and briefly describe five types of "rater errors" which managers sometimes make in performance appraisals.

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Question 10

The morning bias is due to the negative stereotype of employees with late start times being perceived as less ________.

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Question 11

A friend of yours has just had an interview and was so impressed with the way she was treated that she is convinced that the organization must be a great place to work.This is a good example of ________.

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Question 12

What are rater errors and what can organizations do to reduce them and improve the accuracy of performance appraisals?

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Question 13

Because the employee was not creative, Jan tended to rate her unfairly low on all performance categories.Jan has fallen prey to ________.

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Question 14

What factors threaten the validity of the employment interview? What can be done to improve the validity of the employment interview?

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Question 15

If your task is to conduct a structured interview, then you should not focus on ________.

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Quiz 3: Perception, Attribution, and Diversity