employee selection part 2

Exercise 1

Should ethical competency be a core competency for all jobs? How would you operationally define it? Discuss the implications for selection (assessment methods, how to integrate with other predictors). Write a 1-page report summarizing your position.

Exercise 2:

A vendor comes to you and wants you to purchase and use their personality test that assess Emotional Intelligence to select your salespeople. You are also interested (or your manager told you to find an EI test to select salespeople) in using EI as a predictor. What information will you ask of the vendor?

(Please review our discussions in class and the materials in Chapter 7 on the quality of measures, and come up with 5 specific questions you will ask the representative from the test vendor.)

Exercise 3:

You have just concluded your Strategic Workforce Planning. Based on Labor Demand forecast and supply (e.g., Markov analysis with transition probabilities etc), you find that there is likely to be employee surpluses in many jobs (perhaps necessitating some layoffs in future). Will you share this data publicly with all employees? Why or why not? Summarize your thoughts in a page.

Exercise 4:

Here is some Recruitment history data. Based on this data which recruitment sources seem to be very effective?

Recruitment History Data:

Source	Applicants	Qualified for Job & Interviewed	Applicants Hired	Retained 1 year	Total Recruitment Costs	Cost/ Hire	Cost/ Applicant
Internet	100	40	10	4	$100
Newspaper	200	35	5	3	$350
Walk-ins/ Referrals	50	15	4	2	$50
Employment Agency	10	10	1	1	$500
Totals	360	100	20	10	$1000

Suppose you wanted to hire an additional 5 new employees using ONLY the source with the lowest cost per hire. How many applications would you need to generate to reach your goal?

Exercise 5:

An Organization operates two plants and is interested in hiring salespersons. The applicant flow statistics are provided below. Is there Adverse Impact in the organization (according to four-fifths rule)?

(Hint/Note: Do the analysis in each plant and for overall organization. Then summarize whether you think there is AI and under what conditions….)

	Applicants	Selected
	Men	Women	Men	Women
Plant A	1000	500	100	25
Plant B	10	100	10	60
Total	1010	600	110	85