Question :
1. Industrial and organizational psychologists asked to perform some sort of : 1201869
1. Industrial and organizational psychologists are asked to perform some sort of _____ task more often than any other type.
A. assessment
B. personnel selection
C. employee-management mediation
D. safety inspection
2. Acme Company needs assistance in making hiring decisions. They would benefit most from the services of a(n) _____ psychologist.
A. engineering
B. industrial and organizational
C. occupational health
D. human factors
3. Theo is an industrial and organizational psychologist. As a researcher in the field, Theo’s main goals are likely to be all of the following except:
A. Promoting effective job performance
B. Improving the health and well-being of employees
C. Designing equipment to minimize injury
D. Improving the safety of employees
4. Zoe, an I/O psychologist, is creating KSAOs for a large advertising firm. The “O” in her KSAOs might include which of the following:
A. A list of desired attitudes and values in a potential employee
B. A list of clients who currently employ the firm
C. A complete list of all the present employees of the firm
D. The leadership styles favored by the firm’s management
5. The attributes that are collectively known as KSAOs specifically include all of the following except
A. knowledge.
B. skills.
C. ability.
D. organization.
6. Innitech has hired Bob, a consultant, to complete a job analysis for their computer technician positions. In order to complete this task, Bob must specifically define the
A. manner in which the employee will be compensated.
B. relative position of the job in the company hierarchy.
C. financial impact of the job on the company.
D. tasks involved in the job and the qualities of the person needed to do the job.
7. As part of a job analysis, an industrial and organizational psychologist describes the particular tasks involved in doing the job. The psychologist is using a(n) _____ approach to job analysis.
A. job-oriented
B. person-oriented
C. emotion-focused
D. problem-focused
8. Hollie is conducting a job analysis for each position at the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. Hollie has decided to take a person-oriented approach to each job analysis, which means she will include a description of all of the following except:
A. The tasks involved in doing a job
B. The knowledge that an employee must possess
C. An employee’s potential for learning a skill
D. The skills that an employee must possess
9. Executives at Wil-Mart are considering completing a job analysis for their store managers. A job analysis can help Wil-Mart do all of the following except:
A. Understand the attributes needed to perform a job successfully
B. Reduce the need for annual job performance appraisals
C. Determine the tasks associated with a particular job
D. Help organizations recognize the need to train employees
10. The most common method of job analysis consists of asking
A. specially trained job analysts to observe people as they do their jobs.
B. employees to fill out questionnaires about what they do in the workplace.
C. specially trained job analysts to perform a particular job and then record their impressions.
D. employees to engage in unstructured selection interviews.
