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1
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Set of predictors(tests) used to make employee hiring decisions

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Selection Battery

2
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Applicant accepted and performed well

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  1. Hits (True positives)
3
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Applicant rejected and would have performed poorly

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  1. Correct Rejections ( True negatives)
4
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Applicants accepted but performed poorly

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  1. False alarms (false positives) (Type I Error)
5
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Applicant rejected but would have performed well

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  1. Misses (false negatives)(type II Error)
6
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Those that the organization decided to hire, but they ended up being suboptimal performers…

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False alarms (false positive) (type I Error)

7
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The percentage of current employees who are successful on the job…

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Base Rate

8
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Recruitment

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Process of encouraging potentially qualified applicants to seek employment with a particular company

9
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Agreement or match between KSAOs & values, job demands, organization characteristics
(Does it fit me?)

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Person-environment(PE) fit

10
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Cyber vetting

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Assessment of an individuals suitability for a job based on internet info
Ex: Facebook accounts, personal blogs, linked in, YouTube account, etc…

11
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The approach to selection occurs when employees are selected through a process which requires minimal scores on more than one predictor and the predictors must be completed in a specific sequence… only those who pass move on to the next phase

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Multiple Hurdle

Ex: graduate school admissions

12
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Multiple cutoff approach

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Passing scores (cutoffs) are set on each predictor
(Applicant must score higher than cutoff on each predictor)
Ex: surgeons

13
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Statistical technique that allows us to estimate how well a series of predictors forecasts a performance criterion…

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Multiple Regression Approach

14
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Useful and cost efficient?

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Utility

15
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To the extent that a selection battery is valid. Hits/correct rejections are higher and misses/false alarms are lower

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Validity

16
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Study involves collecting predictor data from applicants, gathering their performance data at a later point in time, and then computing a validity coefficient between the predictor and criterion scores

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Predictive validity

17
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Used to determine the extent to which a predictor is related to a criterion

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Validation study

  • predictive validity
  • concurrent validity
18
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Statistical approach used to show that test validity do not vary across situations…

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Validity generalization

19
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Collect data on both predictors and criteria from incumbent employees at the same time

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Concurrent validity

20
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A given selection battery will likely demonstrate lower validity when employed with a different sample

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Validity shrinkage

21
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Situational specificity

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Test validities are limited to particular situations

22
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Based on the notion that job components common across jobs are related to the same KSAs or human attributes

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Synthetic validity

23
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Selection ratio

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Number of job openings divided by the number of applicant

The smaller the selection ratio, the better the utility of the selection battery

24
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Protection from discrimination for individuals so are 40 years old or more…

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Age Discrimination in Employment (ADEA)

25
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In 1933, the family and medical leave Act was signed, providing _______ for employees to take care of family related issues…

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Up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave

26
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If the percentage of applicants hired for a group is less than 80% of the selection rate for the group with the highest selection rate…

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Adverse Impact (80% rule of thumb)

27
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When an organization does not have the resources to accommodate individuals with a given disability (part of ADA)

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Undue Hardship

28
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Common law doctrine stating that employers have the right to initiate or terminate professional relationships at any given time with or without reason…

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Employment at will

29
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This act provided equality of opportunity and equal treatment of all people regardless of “race, color, religion, sex, or national origin”

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

30
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A practice employed in many organizations to increase the number of minorities or protected class members in targeted jobs…

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Affirmative Action (AA)

31
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This act makes it illegal to provide unequal pay and benefits to men and women who are holding jobs that are equal…

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Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA)

32
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Claim it is imperative to hire folks of a particular group bc the business cannot be adequately conducted without them

  • intentional
  • characterized by imposing different standards on different groups of people
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Bona Fide Occupational (BFOQ)

33
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Involve employment procedures that apparently unintentionally discriminate against a minority group (unintentional)

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Disparate Impact Cases

34
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Discrimination is intentional and a result of differential treatment (intentional)

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Disparate treatment cases

35
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“Qualified” person can perform the essential functions of the job, if necessary, with the aid of reasonable accommodations Act…

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Americans with disabilities Act (ADA)

36
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Essential functions (part of ADA)

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Tasks that are significant and meaningful aspects of the job

37
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Reasonable accommodations (part of ADA)

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Changes if exceptions that would allow the qualified disabled individual to successfully do the job

38
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  • Most far reaching federal statues prohibiting discrimination
  • modified in 1991, deals w/ issues of Monterey damages, jury trials as well as clarifying e/ party’s obligations in adverse impact cases
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Civil Rights Act ( 1964, 1991)

39
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One of the most important cases involving Civil Rights Act

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Griggs V Duke Powef (1971)

  • griggs(African American male) was not hired and presented adverse impact data against African Americans
  • duke power said adverse impact was unintentional, but lost largely bc job relatedness if it’s selection battery could not be demonstrated