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Human Resource Management

Notes Validity: The relationship between scores on a selection tool and a relevant criterion such as job
performance.

6.10 Review Questions

1. Explain in brief the various selection techniques in general. Outline those selection
techniques which are popularly used in India.
2. What is testing in selection? Explain its validity and reliability in the selection process.

3. What types of tests do you adopt for selecting mechanical engineers in a large tool making
industry?
4. As jobs become more team oriented, assessment centres will be used more often for
management jobs. Do you agree or disagree?
5. If you were interviewing a promising candidate but he seemed nervous, what actions
might you consider to calm the candidate?

6. "The most efficient solution to the problem of interview validity is to do away with the
interview and substitute paper and pencil measures." Do you agree or disagree? Explain.
7. "Even though interviews are not reliable, they are heavily used." Discuss why this selection
device still rates very highly when it is known that it is unreliable.
8. Orientation is required when the selection policy is defective. When employees are selected
properly, they do not need to be oriented. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
9. Explain the terms 'placement' and 'induction'. Outline their objectives.
10. What are the components of an employee induction programme? Why it is important in
an organization?

Answers: Self Assessment

1. (v) 2. (iv)
3. (iii) 4. F
5. T 6. T

7. T 8. F
9. T 10. F
11. T 12. T
13. T 14. T

15. T
6.11 Further Readings

Books Aswathapa, K. (2008), Human Resource Management, 5th ed., Tata McGraw Hill.
Dipak Kumar Bhattacharyya, Human Resource Management, Excel Books.
French, W.L. (1990), Human Resource Management, 4th ed., Houghton Miffin,
Boston.

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