Unit 1
The quality of a measurement, referring to its ability to actually measure or predict what it intends to measure or predict.
What is validity?
Ratios that show the number of applicants at one stage of the recruiting process who move to the next stage.
What is a Yield Ratio?
An evaluation procedure that contains paris of items, both sounding equally desirable, but only one iten in each pair is actually descriptive of an outstanding performer.
What is Forced-Choice Technique?
A pensin plan in which both the employee and the employer make contributions to the fund.
A signed statement that requires and employee not to join a union.
What is a Yellow Dog Contract?
The percentage of a particular group, such as males or females, who are participating as employess in the labor force.
What are Participation Rates?
The common name for Executive Order 11246, which requieres government contractors to develop affirmative action plans.
What is Order #4?
A training technique in which trainees are placed in a special training room that is a replication of the actual job situation.
Jobs that are either overpaid or overpaid or underpaid relative to the amount the wage curve indicates ought to be paid for them. Sometimes underpaid jobs are called blue circle or green circle rates.
What are Red-Circle Jobs?
The requirement that both parties meet and make offeres and counter proposals in an effort to reach an agreement.
What is Good Faith Bargaining?
A method which consists of comparing the current situation to the desired situation in order to identify the changes required to reach the desired state.
What is a Gap Analysis?
A method of assessing the reliability of an istrument by splitting the instrument into two parts and determining if the applicants obtain similar scores on both halves.
What is Split-Halves Reliability?
A 3x3 grid used to compare employees on three levels of job performance and three levels of promotion.
What is a Nine-Box Grid?
When bad-risk employees under a flexible benefits plan choose a benefit and good-risk employees do not.
Federal Anti-Injunction Act. A law passed in 1932 to encourage the formation of labor unions by neutralizing the differential power between employees and employers.
What is the Norris-LaGuardia Act?
A research study in which variables in an acutal organization are measured and correlated, sometimes called a correlational study.
What is a field study?
The correlation coefficient showing the relationship between a predictor and a criterion.
What is a Valididty Coefficient?
The process that occurs when people know their behavior is being observed and behave differently as a result of being evaluated.
What is the Hawthorn Effect?
A theory of motivation based on a hierarchy of five needs: physiological, safety, social, esteem, and self-actualization. Money is viewed as something that primarily satisfies lower-level needs.
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
National Labor Relation Act. A law passed in 1935 to establish the legal right for labor unions to exist.
What is the Wagner Act?
A strategic management performance tool that assesses how well an organization is meeting its goals by evaluating both financial and non-financial key performance indicators.
What is a Balanced Scorecard?
A type of interview that relies on a careful job analysis to identify the critical job requirements for each position. The interview questions focus on what the person has done in previous situations relative to the job requirements.
What is a Targeted-Selection Inverview?
Training that focuses on changing managers' assumptions about the value of the opnness and feedback and making their behavior congruent with how they think they behave.
What is Double-Loop Learning?
A company-wide incentive plan in which compensation is based on a ratio of income to value added by the employees in the prodcution process.
What is the Rucker Share-of-Production Plan?
An election held by the NLRB to determine whether the majority of employees wish to decertify a union.
What is a Decertification Election?