Once the Recruiting Process Has Attracted a Pool of Applicants

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Short Answer

Once the recruiting process has attracted a pool of applicants, the next step is to select someone to hire. The intent of the selection process is to gather information from applicants that will predict their job success. The organization can only gather information about factors that are predictive of future performance. This process is called
psychological profiling.
screening.
job specification.
validation.
none of these.

Recognize work as a potent source of stress and its precedence over other stressors such as health.

Understand how different personality traits, particularly Type A, influence the risk of heart disease and job satisfaction.

Distinguish between different personality traits and their susceptibility to stress and stressors.

Comprehend the concept of stress as a syndrome and differentiate between intrinsic and extrinsic valuation of stress.

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Definitions:

Serious Physical Assault

A form of violence characterized by a severe attack or harm done to another person's body.

Aggression

Behavior intended to harm or intimidate others, which can be physical or verbal in nature.

Frustration-Aggression

A hypothesis suggesting that aggression is often the result of frustration, or the blockage of a goal.

Ethology

The scientific study of animal behavior, often with a focus on behaviors that occur in natural environments.