Dessler Human Resource Management Chapter 6 Employee Testing and Selection Lindenwood University

Negligent Hiring - Answer Hiring workers with questionable backgrounds without proper safeguards. Person-job fit - Answer Matching 1. the knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs) and competencies that are central to performing the job with 2. the prospective employee's knowledge, skills, abilities and competencies. The aim is to achieve a match. Reliability - Answer The consistency of scores obtained by the same person when retested with the identical tests or with alternate forms of the same test. Test-retest reliability estimate - Answer Administer a test and then readminister the same test several days later. Equivalent or alternative form estimate - Answer Administer a test and then administer what experts believe to be an equivalent test later. Internal Comparison Estimate - Answer The degree to which responses vary. One reason that you find apparently repetitive questions on some questionnaires. Reliability coefficient - Answer The degree to which the two measures are correlated. Test Validity - Answer The accuracy with which a test, interview, and so on measures what it purports to measure or fulfills the function it was designed to fill. Criterion Validity - Answer A type of validity based on showing that scores on the test (predictors) are related to job performance (criterion). Content Validity - Answer A test that contains a fair sample of the tasks and skills actually needed for the job in question. Construct Validity - Answer A test that a selection procedure measures a construct and that construct is important for successful job performance.