Human Resource Management 9th Edition by Gary Dessler – Test Bank

Human Resource Management 9th Edition by Gary Dessler – Test Bank

Chapter 06
Selection and Placement

True / False Questions

1. Much of the work in personnel selection involves measuring characteristics of people to determine who will be accepted for job openings.

True False

2. The degree to which a measure is free from random error refers to its reliability.

True False

3. Reliability refers to the measuring instrument rather than to the characteristic itself.

True False

4. The correlation coefficient is zero for a perfect positive relationship.

True False

5. Validity is the extent to which performance on the measure is related to performance on the job.

True False

6. A measure can be valid without being reliable.

True False

7. A concurrent validation assesses the validity of a test by administering it to people already on the job and then correlating test scores with existing measures of each person’s performance.

True False

8. The size of the sample on which the correlation is based has no role in achieving statistical significance.

True False

9. Content validity is achieved primarily through a process of expert judgment.

True False

10. The inability to use content validation in small sample settings makes it generally less applicable than criterion-related validation.

True False