Personnel Specialist Steve Jones Is Assessing a New Supervisor's Ability

question 44

Multiple Choice

Personnel specialist Steve Jones is assessing a new supervisor's ability to follow company standards for evaluating employees.Steve has the new supervisor rate five hypothetical employees on a scale of one to ten.He is interested in how the new supervisor's ratings correlate with company norms for these benchmark cases. The Spearman rank correlation coefficient is ___.

• A)0.80
• B)0.85
• C)0.90
• D)0.25
• E)1.00

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