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Chapter 2: Job Performance Concepts and Measures
TRUE/FALSE
1. The adequacy of the criterion measure used in a validation study is less important than the adequacy of
predictor measures.
ANS: F PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking
2. In nonjudgmental performance measures, both quantity and quality of production have been used.
ANS: T PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking
3. Production data for individuals are easy to gather because these data are collected for business
operations.
4. Production data consists of the things that can be counted, seen, and compared directly from one
worker to another.
5. If accurate individual worker data cannot be gathered, validation is difficult to carry out.
6. Measuring production by sales volume is a valid way to measure performance.
7. When production data need to be corrected, a manger makes a judgment about how to correct the raw
data.
8. Trait rating scales are a preferred way of judging the performance of employees.
9. The Simple Behavioral Scale is not recommended to rate employees, due to its simplicity.
10. In the development of a 360 assessment system, the content of items should be about the individual’s
skill, knowledge or style.
11. The only problem with judgmental scales is that of intentional bias.
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12. If judgmental data are based on production data then judgment data is superfluous.
13. One type of OCB is assisting other workers.
14. The beneficial behaviors of OCBs are regularly included as statements in job analysis; hence their
importance
15. With production data, the evaluation is based on the opinion or judgment of the supervisor of the
worker.
16. Trait rating scales are measures of personal characteristics that are thought to be necessary for good
work performance.
17. The main difference between BARS and BES is in the wording of incidents.
18. In judging the scale ratings of critical incidents in BARS or BES, a low standard deviation represents
more agreement among the raters.
19. There is no relationship between judgmental measures and production measures of job performance.
20. Research has shown that the most appropriate behaviors to use as scale points are those representative
of desired social behaviors.
21. Intentional or inadvertent bias may be present in judgmental data.
22. BARS are superior to other appraisal formats for reducing rater errors.
23. It is disappointing, but no studies have demonstrated positive effects from training programs designed
to overcome rater bias.

24. An employee’s peers do, but the employee’s superiors do not, provide performance data in 360-Degree
Feedback.
25. The history of selection argues that the dimensions used in performance criteria be fairly broad
statements of performance or job behaviors.
26. Selection instruments correlate less well with broad, encompassing job dimensions than with specific,
narrow dimensions.
27. When using judgmental performance appraisal scales, the recommendation is for supervisors to make
one judgment of the overall job dimension or, if she/he is asked to rate the more specific dimensions,
they should all be combined into one single score.
28. Selection specialists generally prefer to use job performance data in validation that are collected
primarily for other personnel/human resource management purposes, since they are likely to be less
biased.
29. Frame changing is the ability to alternate between multiple ways of performing the tasks of one’s job.
30. For validation, one should always use multiple criteria.
31. The movement from individual jobs to teams poses problems for selection specialists in terms of
collecting data appropriate for validation work.
32. A difficulty in having team members evaluate each other is that such evaluation, because it focuses on
individual performance rather than team performance, is somewhat contrary to the philosophy of
teams.
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Regarding OCBs, which of the following statements is TRUE?

a. Workers’ OCBs have no influence on managers’ judgments of their job performance.
b. Workers’ OCBs influence managers’ judgments of their job performance.
c. OCBs account for limited variance in the scores of workers.

d. OCBs are always a positive influence on job performance ratings.
ANS: B PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking
2. Which of the following is TRUE about the use of production data in validation studies?
a. The data are easy to gather because they are collected routinely for business operations
such as production, planning, and budgeting.
b. The importance of such measures is obvious and easily understood.
c. These data are not usually challenged and easily accepted by workers.
d. These measures are often limited and must be corrected.
ANS: D PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking
3. Which of the following is NOT a type of judgmental data?

a. Trait rating scales c. BARS
b. CARS d. BES
4. In the development of a 360 assessment system, all of these guidelines should be used EXCEPT:
a. The items should be specific job behaviors.
b. The items should be administered by paper and pencil.
c. A trained evaluator should provide an interpretation of survey results to the manager.
d. The items should be about the individual’s skill, knowledge or style.
5. The concept of job performance became more complex and difficult to measure because of all of these
EXCEPT:
a. The transition from a manufacturing to a service economy.
b. The transition to working in teams.
c. The rise of computer technology in the workplace.
d. The complexity of .
ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: 603 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking
6. Assisting other workers and teaching new workers are both examples of:
a. WRCs
b. CWBs
c. OCBs
d. BARS
ANS: C PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking
7. The main difference between BARS and BES is:

a. The underlying assumptions.
b. The wording.
c. The source of the data.
d. BARS can be used across jobs; BES cannot.
8. The judgmental measures of BARS or BES are developed to define the scale’s rating points by using
these as examples:
a. Judgmental data.
b. Task performance

c. Production data.
d. Job behaviors.
9. A halo error occurs when:

a. a large number of subordinates receives ratings in the middle of the scale.
b. a subordinate is rated equally on different performance scales because of a general
impression of the worker.
c. a subordinate is rated differently on different performance scales because of a general
impression of the worker.
d. a disproportionate number of workers receives high ratings.
10. Which of the following is not one of the common forms of rater error in performance appraisal?
a. halo c. central tendency
b. leniency d. criterion contamination
11. Intentional bias is displayed when the rater deliberately distorts the ratings:
a. To be favorable.
b. To be unfavorable.
c. To reflect in advertent bias.
d. Either A or B.
12. Which of the following is NOT a method to combine different performance measures into one?
a. factor analysis c. expert judgment
b. dollar criterion d. behavioral analysis
13. When a validity study is done for research purposes, the recommendation is to use which of the
following?
a. a composite criterion c. a single criterion
b. multiple criteria d. a qualitative criterion
14. Which of the following is NOT a likely promoter of OCBs?

a. Employee characteristics c. Task characteristics
b. Environmental characteristics d. Leadership behaviors
15. All of the following are characteristics that help ensure that the criterion has the information that is
necessary for conducting a sound validation study EXCEPT:
a. relevance. c. variance.
b. measurability. d. contamination.

16. One study found that OCBs accounted for _____% f the variance in judgmental performance
evaluations:
a. 9.5%. c. 42.9%.
b. 61.2%. d. 2%.
ANS: C PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking
ESSAY
1. What characteristics should useful selection criteria have? Briefly identify these characteristics and
define them in a checklist format that could be used by a manager to assess the adequacy of his/her
criteria measures. What is the general conclusion regarding how violations of these characteristics will
likely affect the validity coefficient?
ANS:
Student response will vary.
PTS: 1
2. Explain why task performance is still the primary type of job performance measure. What other
methods should also be used?
ANS:
PTS: 1
3. Evaluate the statement, “Production Data are a preferred source of data for performance ratings, since
they are usually gathered for other business purposes.”
ANS:
PTS: 1
4. Why are criterion measurement issues as important as predictor measurement issues in selection?
ANS:
PTS: 1

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ANS: F PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking

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6. Measuring production by sales volume is a valid way to measure performance.

ANS: F PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking

ANS: T PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking

ANS: F PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking

ANS: F PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking

ANS: T PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking

ANS: F PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking

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ANS: T PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking

13. One type of OCB is assisting other workers.

ANS: T PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking

ANS: F PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking

ANS: F PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking

ANS: T PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking

ANS: T PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking

ANS: T PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking

ANS: F PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking

ANS: F PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking

21. Intentional or inadvertent bias may be present in judgmental data.

ANS: T PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking

ANS: T PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking

ANS: F PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking

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ANS: F PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking

ANS: T PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking

ANS: F PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking

ANS: T PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking

ANS: F PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking

ANS: F PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking

30. For validation, one should always use multiple criteria.

ANS: F PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking

ANS: T PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking

ANS: T PTS: 1 NOT: AACSB Reflective Thinking

1. Regarding OCBs, which of the following statements is TRUE?

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3. Which of the following is NOT a type of judgmental data?

7. The main difference between BARS and BES is:

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9. A halo error occurs when:

14. Which of the following is NOT a likely promoter of OCBs?

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