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Recruitment & Selection Flashcards

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41 - True Score

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The average score that an individual would earn on an infinite number of administrations of the same test or parallel versions of the same test.

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41 - Error Score

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The hypothetical difference between an observed score and a true score.

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85 - Adverse Impact

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Occurs when the selection rate for a protected group is lower than that for the relevant comparison group.

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112 - Job Description

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A written description of what job occupants are required to do, how they are supposed to do it, and the rational for any required job procedures.

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112 - Job Specifications

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The knowledge, skills, abilities, and other attributes or competencies that are needed by a job incumbent to perform well on the job.

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112- Job

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A collection of positions that are similar in their significant duties.

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112 - Position

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A collection of duties assigned to individuals in an organization at a given time.

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112 - Job Family

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A set of different, but related, jobs that rely on the same set of KSAOs.

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120 - Work-oriented Job Analysis

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Job analysis techniques that emphasize work outcomes and descriptions of the various tasks performed to accomplish outcomes.

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120 - Worker-oriented Job Analysis

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Job analysis techniques that emphasize general aspects of jobs, describing perceptual, interpersonal, sensory, cognitive, and physical activities.

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129 - Task Inventories

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Work-oriented surveys that break down jobs into their component tasks.

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133 - Worker Traits Inventories

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Methods used to infer employee specifications from job analysis data; commonly included in the job analysis literature.

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140 - Competencies

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Groups of related behaviors that are needed for successful job performance in an organization.

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140 - Competency Models

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A collection of competencies that are relevant to performance in a particular job, job family, or functional area.

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140 - Competency Framework

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A broad framework for integrating, organizing and aligning various competency models that are based on an organization’s strategy and vision.

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140 - Core Competencies

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Characteristics that every member of an organization, regardless of position, function, job, or level of responsibility within the organization, is expected to possess.

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140 - Functional Competencies

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Characteristics shared by different positions within a organization. Only those members of an organization in these positions are expected to possess these competencies.

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140 - Job-specific Competencies

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Characteristics that apply only to specific positions within the organization. Only those people in the position are expected to posses these competencies.

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140 - Competency Dictionary

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A listing of all the competencies required by an organization to achieve its mandate, along with the proficiency level required to perform successfully in different functional groups or positions.

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140 - Proficiency Level

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The level at which competency must be performed to ensure success in a given functional group or position.

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166 - Job Performance

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Behaviour that is relevant to accomplishing the goals of an organization.

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166 - Criteria

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Measures of job performance that attempt to capture individual differences among employees with respect to job-related behaviours.

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166 - Task Performance

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Duties related to the direct production of goods and services and to the direct contribution to the efficient functioning of the organization that form part of a job. These duties are part of the worker’s formal job description.

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166 - Contextual Performance

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The activities or behaviours that are not part of a worker’s formal job description but that remain important for organizational effectiveness.

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166 - Counterproductive Work Behaviours

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Voluntary behaviours that violate significant organizational norms and in so doing threaten the well-being of an organization, its members, or both.

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166 - Job Performance Domain

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The set of job performance dimensions that is relevant to the goals of the organization, or unit, in which a person works.

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166 - Performance Dimensions

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Sets of related behaviours that are derived from an organization’s goals and linked to successful job performance.

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183 - Criterion Relevance

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The degree to which the criterion measure captures behaviours or competencies that consistute job performance.

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183 - Criterion Deficiency

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Those job performance behaviours or competencies that are not measure by the criterion.

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183 - Criterion Contamination

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The degree to which the criterion measure is influenced by, or measures, that are not part of job performance.

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183 - Practicality

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The degree to which a criterion measure is available, plausible, and acceptable to organizational decision makers.

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183 - Ultimate Criterion

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The concept that a single criterion measure reflects overall job success.

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189 - Objective Performance Measures

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Production, sales, and personnel data used in assessing individual job performance.

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189 - Subjective Performance Measures

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Ratings or ranking made by supervisors, peers, or others that are used in assessing individual job performance.

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189 - Relative Rating System

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A subjective measurement that compares the overall performance of one employee to that of others to establish a rank order of employee performance.

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189 - Absolute Rating System

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Compare the performance of one worker with an absolute standard of performance; can be used to assess performance on one dimension or to provide an overall assessment.

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217 - Person-job Fit

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This is the case when a job candidate has the knowledge, skills, abilities, or other attributes and competencies required by the job in question.

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217 - Person-organization Fit

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This is the case when a job candidate fits the organization’s values and culture and has the contextual attributes desired by the organization.

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227 - Systematic Discrimination

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In employment, the intentional or unintentional exclusion of members of groups that are protected under human rights legislation through recruiting, selection, or other personnel practices or policies.

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265 - Designated Targeted Groups

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The four groups designated in the federal government’s Employment Uquity Act that receive legal “protection: in employment policies and practices because of their under representation in the workplace.

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267 - False Positives

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Individuals who are predicted to perform successfully in a given position, but who do not perform at satisfactory levels when placed on the job.

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267 - False Negatives

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Individuals who are predicted to perform unsuccessfully in a given position, but who would perform at satisfactory levels if hired.

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282 - Validity Coefficient

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The correlation between assessment scores and job performance measures.

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320 - Abilities

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Enduring, general traits or characteristics on which people differ and which they bring to a work situation.

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320 - Skill

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An individual’s degree of proficiency or competency on a given task, which develops through performing the task.

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320 - Aptitude

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A specific, narrow ability or skill that may be used to predict job performance.

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320 - Cognitive Abilities

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Intelligence, general mental ability, or intellectual ability.

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330 - Practical Intelligence

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The ability to apply ideas in “real world” contexts.

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330 - Tactic Knowledge

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Knowledge that is derived from experience when learning is not the primary objective.

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330 - Job Knowledge

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Knowledgeable of issues and/or procedures deemed essential for successful job performance.

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330 - Emotional Intelligence

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The ability to accurately perceive and appraise emotion in oneself and others, and to appropriately regulate and express emotion.

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344 - Work Samples and Simulations

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Testing procedures that require job candidates to produce behaviours related to job performance under controlled conditions that approximate those found in the job.

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344 - Situational Excercises

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Asses aptitude or proficiency in performing important job tasks by using tasks that are abstract and less realistic than those performance on the actual job.

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344 - Situational Judgement Test

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Type of situational exercise designed to measure an applicant’s judgment in workplace or professional situations.

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344 - Leaderless Group Discussion

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A simulation exercise designed to assess leadership, organizational, and communication skills.

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344 - In-basket Test

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A simulation exercise designed to asses organizational and problem-solving skills.

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418 - Structured Interview

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An interview consisting of a standardized set of job relevant questions; a scoring guide is used.

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418 - Panel Interview

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An interview conducted by two or more interviewers together at one time.

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418 - Serial Interviews

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A series of interview where the application is interviews separately by each of two or more interviewers.

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418 - Situational Interview

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A highly structured interview in which important or decisive situations employees are likely to encounter on the job are described and applicants are asked what they would do in these situations.

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418 - Dilemma

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A choice in an interview question between two alternatives that appear equally desirable or undesirable.

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418 - Behaviour Description Interview

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A structured interview in which the applicant is asked to describe what he did in given situations in the past.

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418 - Experience-based Interview

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Experience-based interviews assess applicant qualifications such as work experience and education using job knowledge or work sample questions.

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464 - Satisficing

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Making an acceptable or adequate choice rather than the best or optimal choice.

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464 - Organizational Fit

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Applicants’ overall suitability for the organization and its culture.

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464 - Implicit Theories

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Personal beliefs that are held about how people or things function, without objective evidence and often without conscious awareness.

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470 - Pure Judgment Approach

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An approach in which judgmental data are combined in a judgmental manner.

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470 - Trait Rating Approach

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An approach in which judgmental data are combined statistically.

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470 - Profile Interpretation

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An approach in which statistical data are combined in a judgmental manner.

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470 - Pure Statistical Approach

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An approach in which data are combined in a judgmental manner.

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470 - Pure Statistical Approach

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An approach in which data are combines statistically.

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470 - Judgmental Composite

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An approach in which judgmental and statistical data are combined in a judgmental manner.

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470 - Statistical Composite

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An approach in which judgmental and statistical data are combined statistically.

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475 - Incremental Validity

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The value in terms of increase validity of adding a particular predictor to an existing selection system.

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475 - Cut-off Score

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A threshold; those scoring at or above the cut-off score pass, those scoring below fail.

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487 - Banding

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Grouping applicants based on a range of scores.

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