CH6_Employee Selection

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HRPA Human Resources Flashcards on CH6_Employee Selection, created by Taylor Bentley on 28/03/2021.
Taylor Bentley
Flashcards by Taylor Bentley, updated more than 1 year ago
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Selection The process of choosing individuals who have relevant qualifications to fill existing or projected job openings
Reliability The degree to which interviews, tests and other selection procedures yield comparable data over time
Validity The degree to which a test or selection procedure measures a person's attributes
Video Resumes Short video clips that highlight applicants qualifications beyond what they can communicate on their resume
Nondirective Interview An interview where the applicant is allowed the maximum amount of freedom in determining the course of the discussion, while the interviewer carefully refrains from influencing the remarks
Structural Interview An interview where a set of standardized questions with an established set of answers is used
Situational Interview An interview where an applicant is given a hypothetical incident and asjed how they would respond
Behavioural Description Interview (BDI) An interview where an applicant is asked questions about where she did in a given situation
Sequential Interview A format in which a candidate is interviewed by multiple people, one right after another
Preemployment Test An objective and standardized measure of a samle of behaviour that is used to guage a persons KSAOs relative to other individuals
Assessment Centre A process by which individuals are evaluted as they participate in a series of situations that resemble what they might need to handle the job
Criterion-Related Validity The extent a selection tool predicts or correlates with, important elements of work behaviour
Concurrent Validity The extent test scores match criterion data obtained at about the same time from current employees
Predictive Validity The extent to which applicants test scores match criterion data obtained from those applicants after they have been on the job for an indefinite amount of time
Cross-Validation Verifying the results obtained from a validation study by administering a test or test battery to a different sample (drawn from the same population)
Content Validity The extent to which a selection instrument, such as a test, adequately samples the knowledge and skills needed to perform a particular job
Construct Validity The extent to which a selection tool measures a theoretical construct or trait
Compensatory Model A selection decision model in which a high score in one area can make up for a low score in another area
Multiple Cutoff Model A selection decision model that requires an applicant to achieve a minimum level of proficiency on all selection dimensions
Multiple Hurdle Model A sequential strategy in which only the applicants with the highest scores at an initial test stage go on to subsquent stages
Selection Ratio The number of applicants commpared to the number of people to be hired
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