HROB 3070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Visible Minority, Job Performance

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour
• Course: HROB 3070
• Professor: Kevin Mc Dermott

Document Summary

Selecion raio the proporion of applicants for one or more posiions who are hired: ex. 300 people apply to 3 available posiions, so the selecion raio is. 3/300 = 0. 01, or one job for every 100 applicants. False posiives people geing hired who shouldn"t have been. Individuals who are predicted to preform successfully in a given posiion (based on pre-selecion assessment scores), but who do not preform at a saisfactory level when placed on the job. Individuals who are predicted to preform unsuccessfully in a given posiion, but who would have preformed at a saisfactory level if hired. Applicaion blank a form completed by job candidates to provide an employer with basic informaion about their knowledge, skills, educaion, or other job-related informaion. Weighted applicaion blanks a method for quanitaively combining informaion from applicaion blank items by assigning weights that relect each item"s value in predicing job success.