Scenario 10-1 For Four Months You Have Been Employed as the Part-Time

question 32

Multiple Choice

Scenario 10-1
For four months you have been employed as the part-time HRM for TS Inc., a small Canadian aviation company. In the past, recruitment and selection rested on the shoulders of the president and, like most small companies, TS Inc. used employee referrals and an informal interview processes in selecting employees. Since you have been hired, you have guided management through several stages of the recruitment and selection process to hire an aircraft maintenance engineer. TS Inc. has used proper selection methods such as screening, testing, and structured interviews but is not sure about how to integrate the data from these various sources. In the past, the president relied on his gut feeling about applicants and made poor hiring decisions.
-Refer to Scenario 10-1. TS inc. has often selected the first applicant who met the minimum qualifications. What is this constraint?

• A) applicant knowledge, skills, abilities and other attributes
• B) satisficing
• C) implicit hiring
• D) judgmental procedure

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