PHIL 3310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Fide, Test Validity, Job Performance

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Chapter 8
Study Guide 8-(The Work Place (1): Basic Issues)
1. Freedom/Privacy is one of the major issues dividing employers and employees today.
What is civil liberties especially at the workplace?
a. The freedom of a citizen to exercise customary rights, as of speech or assembly,
without unwarranted or arbitrary interference by the government.
2. According to common law, what is employment at will?
a. Employment at will is the freedom to terminate any time without advance notice.
3. What is Bona fide occupation qualification (BFOQs)?
a. Bona fide occupation qualifications are qualities or attributes that employers are
allowed to consider when making decisions on the hiring and retention of
employeesqualities that when considered in other contexts would constitute
discrimination and thus in violation of civil rights employment law. Such
qualifications must be listed in the employment offering.
4. In testing what two conditions must be measured? Define those measures.
A. Test validity- refers to whether test scores correlate with performance in some
other activity- that is, whether the test measures the skill or ability it is intended to
measure.
B. Test reliability- refers to whether test results are replicable- that is, whether a
subject’s scores will remain relatively consistent from test to test.
5. What is Situational Interview?
a. Situational interview- claim that it predicts future job performance better than a
standard interview does and also more accurately that resume analysis,
personality assessments, or pen-and-paper tests.
6. Define the following terms:
A. Seniority- refers to longevity on a job or with a firm
B. Inbreeding- the practice of promoting exclusively from within the firm
C. Nepotism- the practice of showing favoritism to relative and close friends.
D. Just cause- requires that reasons for discipline or discharge deal directly with job
performance
E. Due process- refers to the fairness of the procedures an organization uses to impose
sanctions on employees
F. Firing- for-cause dismissal- the result of employee theft, gross insubordination,
release of proprietary information, and so on.
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