HRM8390 Review

What are two types of errors that can be blamed on the screening process?

Working notice must be paid to any terminated employee regardless of how long they worked at the company.

Which of the following would an HR director use to create job specifications rather than job descriptions?

What is the correct term for a collection of duties assigned to individuals in an organization at a given time?

Most employee departures are avoidable.

What is the correct term of knowledge of facts and things, including rules, regulations, and goals?

What is the end result of the selection process?

What is the term for an idea or concept that is created or invoked to explain relationships between observations?

There are benefits to employee turnover.

In Canada, what law prohibits discrimination in employment and the provision of goods and services?

What is a recruitment action plan?

An interviewer who provides feedback to applicants on how to improve on their next interview is using which concept?

On an application form, when can an employer ask questions based on prohibited grounds?

What are the 3 main challenges that influence talent acquisition?

What is the definition of job analysis?

Which is the term for an interviewer’s beliefs about the requirements of the job and the characteristics of applicants?

Which of the following is a likely response if an applicant's expectations of the interview process are violated?

An individual expected to perform successfully (based on pre-selection assessment scores) but doesn't perform on the job

What factors over which the organization has very little control affect its recruitment success?

The reliability of an employment test or procedure should be at least which of the following?

Recruiting and some selection methods (drug testing, initial screening, background checks, etc.) are mostly outsourced.

What type of form would require candidates to list their job-related hobbies?

Which of the following internal recruitment practices is the LEAST systematic internal recruitment method?

Which selection model rejects applicants if any of their scores (on any predictors) fall below a certain cutoff score?

Which selection process uses weighted scores on different predictors according to their importance or validity?

Preliminary screening interviews are designed to fill gaps left on the candidate’s application form or résumé.

Which of the following elements is NOT included in the STAR technique?

The goal of application screening is to identify/eliminate candidates who do not meet a job's minimum qualifications.

What is the correct term for a case when a job candidate has the KSAOs required by the job in question?

Algorithms used in automated tracking and screening systems increase personal subjectivity.

Ways to retain employees include

Which style of interview has greater levels of predictive validity and reliability?

Which decision-making model takes an applicant’s scores on each predictor is weighted and summed to yield a total score?

The employer—by law—must give the candidate five business days in order to review an employment contract.

When is it legal to ask an employment candidate to participate in physical fitness test or a medical exam?

Which federal law seeks to eliminate discriminatory practices of the four designated groups in the workplace?

Which is a standardized questionnaire that includes 195 items and organizes job elements into 6 dimensions?

What does Bill S-201 of the Canadian Labour Code expressly prohibit?

When can an employer require a potential employee to undergo a medical exam as part of the selection process?

Which grouping process is used in the banding model for making a hiring selection decision?

What is the trait rating approach?

Using only social networks for recruitment has the most potential to result in a claim of systemic discrimination.

Job analysis can be done after a large recruitment drive as it is just used to create job descriptions.

Which of the following conditions should organizations meet in order to be successful in their recruitment efforts?

Which of the following candidate assessments increased performance in 238 units of a restaurant chain?

Gamification involves asking applicants to play a game designed to assess direct skills and knowledge.

Which interview technique is being used if the interviewer asks questions in the form of a dilemma?

This describes an org’s commitment to aligning its processes & systems to retaining/developing a superior work force

ABC company has 250 employees. 35 left the company throughout the year. On Dec 31, 240 EEs are left. What is the TR?

Which selection test predicts how easily people can be trained to perform job tasks?

What is the term for knowledge that is derived from experience when learning is not the primary objective?

An ER is discriminating against race when giving an employment personality test. What kind of discrimination is this?

Which of the following information CANNOT be found on the National Occupational Classification (NOCs) System?

What are the four subcategories of job performance?

Which of the following best describes a Behaviour Observation Scale (BOS) for job performance?

Which is most likely to be used if using subjective performance measures during a performance appraisal?

In which approach are judgmental and statistical data combined statistically?

Today, HR professional perform duties that are less strategic and more administrative than years ago.

How many applicants applied and how positions were available in a recruitment campaign if the selection ratio was 0.05?

What is the calculation for employee turnover rate?

Which job analysis system benefits greatly from the critical incident technique (CIT) of job analysis data collective?

Which of the following defines the promise of compensation by the ER in return for the prospective EE's services?

Human rights legislation in Canada is based on which legal assumption?

What is a benefit of using the multiple hurdle combination selection model for decision making?

Which test would be used to measure general cognitive ability?

What are the four subcategories of job performance?

The abolishment of mandatory retirement has had little impact on the Canadian workforce.

Selection ratio: An ER wants to hire 5 EE's and received over 150 applications. What % of applicants will be rejected?

Which of the following would be used by an HR hiring manager using a non-evidence-based selection system?

What factors influence the eight dimensions of job performance?

The Wonderlic Personnel Test has a maximum score of 50 and the average score for factory workers is 17.