ION Consulting is a small firm that cannot afford to conduct validity studies for the selection tools it uses.The HR director at ION plans to use a selection tool that is used by the firm's largest and most successful competitors.The decision by the HR director is most likely based on ________.
A) utility analysis
B) construct reliability
C) validity generalization
D) alternate form estimates

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Due to costs, small employers must identify tests and other screening tools that have been shown to be valid in other settings (companies), and then bring them in-house in the hopes that they'll be valid there, too. Validity generalization "refers to the degree to which evidence of a measure's validity obtained in one situation can be generalized to another situation without further study."

ION Consulting Is a Small Firm That Cannot Afford to Conduct