Employee Testing and Selection Notes

Human Resource Management, 12e (Dessler)
Chapter 6 Employee Testing and Selection

1) Which of the following terms refers to hiring workers who have criminal backgrounds without proper safeguards?
A) employment malpractice
B) negligent hiring
C) unreliable testing
D) improper hiring
E) invalid screening
Answer: B
Explanation: Negligent hiring means hiring employees with criminal records or other problems who then use access to customers' homes (or similar opportunities) to commit crimes. Employers can be sued for negligent hiring.
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Chapter: 6
Objective: 1
Skill: Concept
2) A reliable employment test will most likely yield ________.
A) consistent scores when a person takes two alternate forms of the test
B) improved scores when a person takes the same test more than once in a single day
C) high scores when a person takes two alternate forms of the test on different occasions
D) similar scores when two different people are administered the test at different times
E) similar scores when two different people are administered the test at the same time
Answer: A
Explanation: Reliability is a test's first requirement and refers to its consistency: A reliable test is one that yields consistent scores when a person takes two alternate forms of the test or when he or she takes the same test on two or more different occasions.
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Chapter: 6
Objective: 1
Skill: Concept
3) If a person scores a 70 on an intelligence test on one day and scores 110 when retested on another day, you might conclude that this test is ________.
A) valid
B) invalid
C) reliable
D) unreliable
E) consistent
Answer: D
Explanation: Reliability is a test's first requirement and refers to its consistency: A reliable test is one that yields consistent scores when a person takes two alternate forms of the test or when he or she takes the same test on two or more different occasions. If a person scores 70 on an intelligence test on a Monday and 110 when