Based on a job analysis, Bjorn believes cognitive ability will be useful for predicting who will be successful managers. Bjorn measures the cognitive ability of 100 existing managers, and also asks their supervisors to rate their performance.  Bjorn then correlates the cognitive ability measures with measures of job performance for this group of current managers.  Bjorn has done a ________ study.

A small company that manufactures special-order wood furniture has kept its highly-skilled and uniquely-trained employees busy on a 40-hour-a-week schedule for the past two years. The company just received the largest contract in its history from a Saudi company opening offices in the area. There is no expectation of repeat business from the Saudi company. In order to complete the contract in the required six weeks, the best option would be:

Of the following, the greatest concern regarding the use of cognitive ability tests should be the: 

Which of the following refers to a list of the KSAOs that an individual must have in order to successfully perform a given job as identified in a job analysis?   

If the Company XYZ requires its employees to be at work between the hours of 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., but allows employees to decide whether they will work their additional hours before or after this time period, it is using which one of the following? 

Questions such as “Where did people who were in each job category go?” and “Where did people now in each job category come from?” can be answered by: 

A person’s level of proficiency or competency at performing a particular task (i.e., a learned behavior) usually expressed in numerical terms (e.g., typing 30 words per minute) is called: 

Which of the following options for reducing an expected labor surplus has the benefit of being a relatively fast solution, but the disadvantage of being high in human suffering? 

One of the most sophisticated methods of predicting labor demands involves the use of statistical models such as multiple regression and utilizes objective measures from the previous year (such as sales, inventory levels).  This method is known as:

If a negatively charged object is brought near a suspended, positively charged object, the suspended object will be