I/O Psychology test drill

This is the process of identifying how a job is performed, the conditions under which it is performed, and the personal requirements it takes to perform the job

• Job analysis

• Job evaluation

• Job needs

• Job enrichment

Kriegel and Brandt defined this as looking for and getting rid of practices that serve no useful purpose and reduce productivity.

• Organization detox

• Policy filters

• System analysis

• Sacred cow hunt

What employees’ needs are meant to be satisfied by awards, promotions and salary increases?

• Physiological

• Safety and Security

• Social

• Esteem

This field of I/O Psychology focuses on workplace design, physical fatigue and stress

• Human factors/Ergonomics

• Occupational Psychology

• Industrial Psychology

• Organizational Psychology

This stage of group development is mostly applicable to teams that are temporary, like project teams

• Storming

• Norming

• Adjourning

• Evaluating

An error that occurs when a rater gives all employees the middle rating.

• Bell curve error

• Similarity error

• Strictness error

• Central tendency error

In a University, a professor with more experience in the field of research than anyone else was voted as head over the Research Laboratory because of his

• Expert power

• Referent power

• Coercive power

• Legitimate power

What kind of third-party intervention in group conflicts involves having someone facilitate the communication process between the two conflicting parties, but not make a decision?

• Arbitration

• Mediation

• Moderation

• Confounding

When the supervisor rated 10% of the employees as ‘Excellent’, 20% as ‘Good’, 40% as Average, 20% as Below Average, and 10% as ‘Poor’, what type of appraisal is he/she using?

• Forced-choice rating

• Forced distribution

• Paired comparison

• Rank order

Employee performance of a single group was noted before and after training to see its effectiveness. This type of design refers to

• Counterbalancing

• Pretest-posttest design

• Pretest-posttest control group design

• Solomon-four group design