1. As the holiday season approaches, many retailers have been going on hiring sprees to find temporary help. The fear is that they will be ___________, and thereby unable to meet the needs of the increased demand. a. Understaffed b. Overstaffed c. Fully staffed d. Rightly staffed
2. The HR department is currently considering the types of people they will need to hire, the right number of hires to make, and where and how they will recruit for the open positions. At this point, it would appear they are in the __________ phase of selection. a. Retention b. Acquiring c. Deployment d. External
3. Which of the following are employers obligated to abide by when using temporary employees? a. Civils Rights Act b. Age Discrimination Act c. Equal Pay Act d. All of these
4. Which of the following is not one of the fundamental purposes of employment laws? a. Protection of employees b. Protection of employers c. Reciprocity of ideas d. All of these are purposes of employment laws
5. All of the following are valid examples of peer assessments except: a. Popularity b. Ratings c. Nominations d. Rankings
6. The compensatory model that uses an assessment weighting scheme based on statistical analyses is __________. a. Clinical prediction b. Multiple regression c. Unit weighting d. Rational weighting
7. Although everyone was treated the same throughout the entire selection process, there were still many people who felt the decision to promote a particular employee to the open supervisory position was unfair. As no one can find any fault in the actual process, their claim that the wrong person was being promoted, is mostly influenced by their perceptions of ______________ justice. a. Ethical b. Compensatory c. Procedural d. Distributive
8. Among the following options, which has been shown by research to be most valid selection assessments? a. Structured interviews b. Unstructured interviews c. Cognitive ability tests d. Personality tests
9. The __________ is focused on the congruence between position requirement and employee traits. a. Employment equilibrium b. Correlation strategy c. Person/job match d. Position perspective
10. External influences on staffing include all of the following except: a. Labor demand b. Organizational culture c. Labor supply d. Technology