You Have Just Applied for a Job and When Completing

question 214

Multiple Choice

You have just applied for a job and when completing the application form you were surprised to see questions about your age and marital status.Such questions would seem to violate equal employment and human rights legislation and not likely to be related to the job.It made you wonder why a company would ask these questions.What is a good explanation for this?

• A)Difficulties of non-programmed decision making
• B)Bounded rationality
• C)Cognitive biases
• D)Information overload
• E)Difficulties of programmed decision making

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