Trends in Hiring Practices

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Trends in Hiring Practices
Zachary Schneider saw a sign in the window of an Amy’s Ice Creams franchise operation. The sign said the company was looking for new employees. When he went in to ask for a job application, he was given a paper bag and told to do “something creative with it.” The test was to see whether the job applicant was suited to carrying out the chain’s mission: “To make people’s day.” This type of pre­employment assessment is not unusual. Gourmet grocery chain Central Market uses a four­page application form which includes essay questions such as “Tell us about your favorite food experience.” If it seems an applicant is a good match for the company, he or she is asked to make a statement about himself or herself using items found in the grocery store and to participate with other applicants in a roundtable discussion.

-Refer to Trends in Hiring Practices. Amy's is convinced that how applicants respond to its request to do something creative with a brown paper bag accurately predicts how well job applicants will perform if hired. In other words, it believes its pre-employment assessment method is____________ .

• A) standardized
• B) valid
• C) efficient
• D) economical
• E) reliable

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Definitions:

Hypothesized Reason

An assumed explanation underlying an observed phenomenon or a prediction in research, subject to testing.

Significance Level

The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is actually true, usually denoted as alpha (α).

Null Hypothesis

The assumption for a statistical test that there is no association between two observed phenomena or no difference among groups.

Population

In statistics, this term refers to the entire group of individuals or instances about which you are interested in making conclusions.