Quiz on Recruitment and Employee Engagement

Which of the following is NOT an external driver of the changing nature of work?

• Globalization

• Demographic trends

• Reskilling

• Technology

Which recruitment source yields the highest number of total hires?

• Employee referrals

• LinkedIn

• Campus recruiting

• Glassdoor

Lucy is interviewing for a job at TechCorp. During the interview, Lucy is told by her interviewer that TechCorp provides great personal and family benefits, but that some weeks she will have to work 80+ hours to meet her job responsibilities. The interviewer sharing both positive and negative aspects of the job is an example of:

• Issue selling

• Honesty-based interviewing

• Image-based awareness

• Realistic job preview

The accuracy or appropriateness for predicting or drawing inferences from test scores is known as:

• Candidate reactions

• Validity

• Reliability

• Adverse impact

Which of the following assessments has been shown to have the highest validity?

• Biodata

• Personality tests

• Work samples

• Unstructured interviews

Which job characteristic relates most strongly to employee engagement?

• Task significance

• Stressful work conditions

• Task variety

• Social support

Which of the following aspects of learning and development has NOT been shown to influence employee engagement?

• Effective mentoring

• Utilization of virtual training

• Challenging development plans

• Management and job skills training

A company utilizes the top-grading version of the forced distribution method for performance appraisal. This means:

• The bottom 10% of employees will be dismissed each year

• People are only evaluated based on group performance

• Performance is rated out of 10

• Employees rated at the top have to give others feedback

A company rates employees’ performance on a 1-5 scale. 85% of employees receive a 3 out of 5 as their rating. This is an example of which type of rating error?

• Leniency error

• Central tendency error

• Severity error

• Wishful thinking

Which of the following is NOT an example of misalignment as explained by Kerr in his 1975 article?

• Rewarding individual employees for sales volume while hoping for superb customer service

• Rewarding employees with a set payment for each unit of product produced while hoping to maximize individual output

• Rewarding professors for their research and publications while hoping for strong lecture and teaching performance

• Rewarding call center employees for the number of calls handled while hoping for employees to spend as much time as need to resolve each customer’s issue