Introduction to I/O Psychology
Legal Issues
Employee Selection
Employee Motivation
Employee Satisfaction
100
This is when an employee changes their behavior only because they are being observed.
What is the Hawthorne effect?
100
This Act requires federal contractors to maintain a drug-free workplace.
What is the Drug-Free Workplace Act?
100
These are the best types of questions for an employer to ask during an interview.
What are open-ended questions?
100
Some examples include helping others and staying late
What are Organizational Citizen Behaviors?
100
The three types of these include Affective Commitment, Continuance commitment, and Normative Commitment.
What are the three types of motivational facets?
200
This is a standardized admission test required by most psychology graduate schools.
What is a Graduate Record Exam (GRE)?
200
This amendment protects citizens against unreasonable search or seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
200
This is how long a cover letter should be.
What is no longer than one page?
200
This occurs when negative expectations of an individual causes a decrease in the individual's performance.
What is the Golem effect?
200
This is a system in which employees are given the opportunity to perform several different jobs in an organization.
What is Job Rotation?
300
This is a group who during an experiment does not receive a particular type of training so their performance can be compared to those who do receive the training.
What is a control group?
300
This is a group of people for whom protective legislation was passed.
What is a Protected Class?
300
This method of recruitment occurs when a current employee suggest a friend or family member for a job.
What is an employee referral?
300
This is the fifth step in Maslow's hierarchy and concerns the need to realize one's potential.
What are self actualization needs?
300
This is the most commonly used job satisfaction scale used today.
What is Job Description Index (JDI)?
400
This is a statistical procedure that is used to measure the relationship between two variable.
What is a correlation?
400
This requirement is only legal when a job can only be performed by a person in a particular class
What is a Bona Fide Occupational Qualification (BFOQ) ?
400
Monster.com, CareerBuilders.com, and Hotjobs.com are some examples.
What are internet recruiters?
400
This type of recognition uses methods such as personal attention, signs of approval, and expressions of appreciation.
What is social recognition?
400
Examples of this include absenteeism, high turnover rate, and being late.
What are consequences of negative work attitudes?
500
This type of research involves the use of previously collected data.
What is archival research?
500
This type of sexual harassment occurs when granting of sexual favors is tied to employment decisions.
What is Quid Pro Quo?
500
This is the most common method for selecting employees.
What are employment interviews?
500
This type of hierarchy shows a rank order list of reinforcers for an individual.
What is a reinforcement hierarchy?
500
This method help to control absenteeism by paying employees for their unused sick leave.
What is well pay?
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