Employee Selection Evaluation of Techniques

Question 1

reliability

Answer 1

does the predictor provide consistent scores?

Question 2

validity

Answer 2

does the predictor measure what it is meant to measure

Question 3

content validity

Answer 3

does the predictor adequately sample knowledge and skills as intended?

Question 4

construct validity

Answer 4

does the predictor measure the construct? (hypothetical trait)

Question 5

incremental validity

Answer 5

increase in decision making accuracy by adding new selection techniques

Question 6

selection ratio

Answer 6

the percentage of applicants the company plans to hire

Question 7

base rate

Answer 7

percent of employees who were hired using the current selection procedure and were considered successful

Question 8

Taylor-Russell tables

Answer 8

to obtain incremental validity for various combos of criterion-related validity coefficients, base rates and selection ratios

Question 9

adverse impact

Answer 9

unfair discrimination using a particular personnel method

Question 10

test unfairness

Answer 10

members of one group consistently obtain lower scores on a selection test but the score difference doesn’t reflect on differences on measures of job performance

Question 11

differential validity

Answer 11

a selection procedure has different validity measures for different groups

Question 12

utility analysis

Answer 12

a method to evaluate economic return on investment of human resource interventions such as staffing and training

Question 13

a new selection test will most likely increase decision-making accuracy when the base rate is:

Answer 13

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