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Human Resources Management: Staffing
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Human Resources Management: Staffing
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1. When the interviewer asks open questions and provides general direction but allows the applicant to guide the process; a response to one question indicates the next question the interviewer will ask

2. Court ruling that endorsed using gender as a factor in an employment decision if underrepresentation is shown and if the affirmative action plan is not a quota system

3. A measure or predictor with a high degree of consistency

4. A statistical method that can be used to project future demand; is similar to simple linear regression - except that several variables are utilized to project future demand

5. Amended Title VII to prohibit discrimination on the basis of pregnancy - childbirth - or related conditions

6. Useful when an organization has a high volume of applicants for a job and face-to=face interviews are needed to judge prequalification factors

7. A type of criterion-related validity; the degree to which the predictions made by a test are confirmed by the later behavior of test takers

8. Court ruling that allowed Caucasian firefighters to sue the city of Birmingham - Alabama - fo reverse discrimination

9. Situation in which gender - religion - or national origin is reasonably necessary to the normal operations of the business or enterprise

10. Refers to the link btw a selection device and job performance; requires a careful analysis of the job itself

11. Prohibits discrimination against certain veterans by the U.S. government and federal contractors

12. A projection of future demand based on a past relationship - involves a single variable

13. Basic characteristics that can link individuals or teams to enhanced performance; critical success factors needed to perform a given role in an organization.

14. Court ruling that a nonremedial affirmative action plan cannot form the basis for deviating from the antidiscrimination mandate of Title VII

15. Typically begin with what - where - why - when - or how

16. A type of flexible staffing option; highly skilled technical workers (e.g. engineers - data processing specialists) supplied for long-term projects.

17. Occurs when protected classes are intentionally treated differently from other employees or are evaluated by different standards

18. The degree to which inferences made from an interview or a test are correct and accurate

19. Part of an affirmative action plan that provides a geographical presentation of the organizational units - including their interrelationships

20. When the interviewer asks each applicant questions that are from the same knowledge - skill - or ability area; the questions - however - are not necessarily the same; aka targeted interview

21. Internal recruiting method; computerized talent or skill inventories that can furnish a list of qualified people.

22. Use information from the past and present to predict expected future conditions - include managerial estimates - delphi techniques - and nominal group technique

23. Court ruling that distinguished between supervisor harassment that results in tangible employment action and supervisor harassment that does not

24. Type of interviewer bias; involves rejecting a candidate on the basis of a small amount of negative information

25. Internal recruiting method that allows employees to indicate an interest in a position before it become available.