Week 5
How many of the states in the United States maintain an employment agency that administers its unemployment insurance program?
All of the states
During the selection procedure, an applicant may be rejected when?
At any step in the procedure
The first step in task analysis is to
review the job description.
In which type of appraisal interview does the interviewer communicate the strong and weak points of an employee's performance during the first part of the interview and then explore the employee's feelings about the appraisal in the second part?
Tell-and-listen
In the Catholic Church, the Bishop of Rome is a title more commonly known as what?
Pope
If 100 resumes were obtained from an employment agency and 19 of the applicants submitting those resumes were invited for an onsite interview, the yield ratio for that agency would be
19 percent
Which type of interview is attractive because of its convenience, low cost, and ease of interviewing people in different geographic areas?
remote
A company calculates its what by dividing the benefits of training by its costs of training.
Return on Investment
A manager who rates an average employee's performance high based on a comparison of that employee to poor performers commits a
Contrast error
What does SPF in sunscreen stand for?
Sun Protection Factor
Individuals who are not looking for jobs but could be persuaded to take new ones given the right opportunity are also known as
passive jobseekers
The Federal law requires these for all child care providers and prohibits convicted felons from engaging in financial and security-oriented transactions.
comprehensive background checks
This training method consists of having the trainee assume the attitudes and behavior of others?
Role-playing
An appraisal system that takes into account financial, customer, processes, and learning categories is called
The balanced scorecard approach
What is a group of crows called?
Murder
This happens when either organizational or personal reasons reduce the probability of moving up the career ladder.
career plateau
This law severely limits the types of medical inquiries and examinations that employers may use.
The Americans with Disabilities Act
These principles of learning refer to the characteristics of training programs that help employees grasp new material, make sense of it in their own lives, and transfer it back to their jobs.
Psychological
A manager who rates an employee's performance largely on the basis of the employee’s behavior in the last month, rather than considering the entire six-month evaluation period, commits a
Recency Error
Which Disney princess is inspired by a real person
Pocahontas
A woman or other member of a protected class who, on paper, is highly qualified for executive positions but is repeatedly passed up for promotion has encountered what is commonly called
The glass ceiling
This refers to the degree which someone is amiable, generous, cooperative, and flexible
Agreeableness
Because different people learn better in different ways, companies often incorporate the use of both in-person classroom learning and online learning. This type of training is referred to as
Blended learning
A person's what is a function of ability, environment, and motivation.
Performance
What 1949 science fiction book by author George Orwell describes a dystopian world in the future?
1984