Question

QUESTION 1

1. The combination of knowledge, skills, abilities, and other valuable characteristics among the workforce that determine its productive potential refers to the organization’s…

   		Person-job fit
   		Person-culture fit
   		Performance culture
   		Human capital

QUESTION 2

1. An organization gathers information about what employees do in their jobs and what knowledge, skills, and abilities are required to perform in those jobs. They do this by observing, interviewing, and distributing surveys to employees. They are performing a(n)…

   		Job analysis
   		Employment discrimination analysis
   		Organizational culture analysis
   		Realistic job preview

QUESTION 3

1. One manager interviews a set of job candidates. The manager’s ratings are heavily influenced by the mood that the manager is in. As a result, the same candidate would get different ratings depending on the day he/she was interviewed. This lack of consistency means the interview has low…

   		Social capital
   		Reliability
   		Validity
   		Generalizability

QUESTION 4

1. Job candidates have to perform a simulated job task. Their performance is used to determine whom to hire. Performance on this task is highly relevant to the job and has been shown to predict who performs well. Because of its relevance to the job and predictive power, this employee selection method has high…

   		Social capital
   		Reliability
   		Validity
   		Generalizability

QUESTION 6

1. An employer asks each applicant the same questions verbally and has a standardized scoring sheet to grade each answer. This is a clear example of…

   		An unstructured interview
   		A structured interview
   		An integrity test
   		A work sample

Answer 1

1 Ans: Human Capital

Explanation: Every employee is capable of certain characteristics and those are not less than a capital for any organization. Those productive potentials refer to the organization as a Human capital.

2 Ans: Organizational culture analysis

Explanation: Employers will gather information about their employees such as how they work, what are they capable of, their weakness and strengths, skills, etc. And these details are maintained by employer by observing, interviewing and conducting surveys so this is called as organizational culture analysis.

3 Ans: Validity

Explanation: If a manager is interviewing the candidates as per their mood and provide ratings, then eventually that interview will have a low validity.

4 Ans: Reliability

Explanation: Employees were given a task and employers will assess them by their performance and this process helps employers in choosing whom to hire for a particular position and this selection method has high reliability.

6 Ans: A structured Interview

Explanation: If an employer is following a same basic format of questions for all the employees and go along with a standard scoring sheet, then it is called as a structured interview.