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Post Test IndusPsych With Key
Post Test IndusPsych With Key
1. If you expected yourself to have high 6. Informal changes that employees make in
scores in the board exam and in the future, their jobs is called:
you really did have those high scores then
you have been influenced by the: a. Job crafting
b. Spontaneous revision
a. Galatea Effect c. Position alterations
b. Barnum Effect d. Job reconstruction
c. Pygmalion Effect
d. Placebo Effect 7. A supervisor in a bank wants to know
who among his employees need more
2. This term was coined by Janis (1972) training when it comes to handling difficult
after studying the disastrous Bay of Pigs customers. What type of needs analysis he
invasion in 1961. With this, members conduct?
become so cohesive and like-minded that
they make poor decisions despite contrary a. Organizational analysis
information that might reasonable lead them b. Job Training analysis
to other options. c. Person analysis
d. Task analysis
a. Group Influence
b. Group Cohesiveness 8. A company with a very supportive climate
c. Group Think for learning found out through needs
d. Group Ideas analysis that the employees in their
company are highly motivate to learn and
3. Faith is a job interviewer and is are in best condition to be trained, that the
constructing a structured interview. What company can afford the trainings needed
should be her first step in constructing a and that the goals of a program are
structured interview? consistent with those of the organization.
What should they do next?
a. Conducting a job analysis
b. Removing primacy effects a. Write and analyze job descriptions
c. Writing questions b. Analyze the resources of the company
d. Creating a scoring key c. Analyze who among the employees
need training in a specific area
4. Based on the available research, which of d. Conduct interviews, observations and/or
the following recruitment strategies may task inventories to find out how employees
enhance employee moral and motivation? learn to perform each task or obtain each
competency
a. Job analysis
b. External recruitment 9. A supervisor wants to conduct training for
c. Use of electronic media the employees of the company. Before
d. Internal recruitment giving trainings. he wants to know if there
are organizational factors that either
5. It is the section in a job description can facilitate or inhibit training effectiveness.
affect a person's perceptions of the status Which of the following must he do?
and worth of a job.
a. Provide Job Descriptions
a. Job title b. Conduct climate and attitude analysis
b. Brief summary c. Make performance appraisals
c. Work activities d. Skill and knowledge testing
d. Work context
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10. A trainer wants to make sure that his a. Give salary deductions to those who
topics for the 4 hour training are interesting. refuse to participate
Which of the following must he not do? b. Conduct a different activity which will not
require as much interaction so that they
a. Use humor when discussing would not be shy
b. Maximize audience participation c. Have them warmed up and give them
c. Give many icebreakers incentives for participating in the role play
d. Give a variety of activities d. Make a role playing activity for another
day
11. A trainer wants to help the employees
remember what was taught during the 15. A company wants to provide distance
seminar. Which of the following is the best learning opportunities to the employees.
thing to do/give to the employees? The supervisor wants to make sure that the
training that will be offered to the employees
a. Posttest will be interactive and in the form of a
b. Handouts seminar given on-line. Which of the
c. Free-writes following should be used?
d. Open-ended questions
a. Webcasts
12. A trainer is trying to formulate case b. Webinars
studies for the upcoming seminar that she c. E-books
will give. Which of the following must she d. Online videos
avoid when doing this so that she can
come up with good and effective case 16. A trainer was tasked to train an
studies? employee for a managerial position. Which
of the following would be the best way to
a. Removing some important information train this employee?
so that the employees will think more
when solving the problem a. Behavior Modeling
b. Using actual situations b. Interactive Videos
c. Writing realistic details c. Role Plays
d. Making it challenging d. Job Rotation
13. A small group of employees need 17. A supervisor was evaluating the results
training to develop their interpersonal skills. of the training that were given to the
Which of the following is the best way to employees the past month. Which of the
practice? following is the best indicator that the
trainings were effective?
a. Interactive videos
b. Webinars a. Highs scores on performance
c. Behavior Modeling appraisals
d. Role Play b. Positive responses during interviews
c. Improved motivation of the employees in
14. A trainer decided to make the doing their job
employees of a company participate in a d. Return on investments
role play to help them develop interpersonal
skills. However, the employees seem to be 18. The statement "it is not fair to pay a
shy to act with their co-workers. What is the poor employee the same amount of money
best thing to do? as an excellent employee" exemplifies the
need for accurate performance appraisals
in:
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22. When selecting the best appraisal 26. Richard is an employee who work so
methods, the following should be taken into hard to perform well because he is
account, except: extrinsically motivated. Which of the
following would be least reinforcing for
a. the focus of appraisal dimensions Richard?
b. the characteristics of the rater and
ratee a. Getting a bonus for his high performance
c. dimensions should be weighted b. Being recognized as employee of the
d. the use of employee comparisons month
c. Getting a salary increase because of
23. A rater has to evaluate a worker's good performance
performance in terms of quantity. He/she d. Giving him opportunities to join
should therefore judge: seminars and workshops so that he can
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further improve on his skills and so that c. An employee who is now looking for a
he would be able to master his job even job wherein there would be high
more recognition and success
d. An employee who is now looking for a job
27. Kyle is someone who is very shy and wherein he could work with other people
who likes working with data and with and develop friendships
computers. However, his current job
involves working with and talking to a lot of 30. To do interviews and to make reports
people. He never gets a chance to work are two tasks that Macayla has to do for her
with computers and with data, and is always job. Doing interviews is something that she
reprimanded by his supervisor for being too dreads while making reports is something
shy when he has talk to his customers. that she enjoys. To motivate Macayla, her
Which of the following could best explain supervisor said that she can only make
Kyle's possible level of motivation and reports after she does an interview with a
satisfaction from his work? client. What effect/principle explains the
supervisor's technique?
a. high motivation and high satisfaction
b. high motivation and low satisfaction a. Golem effect
c. low motivation and high satisfaction b. Galatea effect
d. low motivation and low satisfaction c. Pygmalion effect
d. Premack effect
28. Lyn is not motivated and not satisfied
with her current job because she says that 31. Paloma is the supervisor of a company.
thecompany that she is working in as of the She wants to make sure that the feedback
moment has never given her the promised that she gives her employees would really
annual salary increase even if shehas been motivate them to work harder. Which type of
working there for 3 years already. Also, she feedback would be most effective and
says that her job is not what she expected it reinforcing?
to be. Which of the following could have
been done by the company to prevent this a. Positive and Informative feedback
from happening? b. Positive and Controlling feedback
c. Negative and Controlling feedback
a. Give her awards for doing her job d. Negative and Informative feedback
b. Give her opportunities to attend seminars
to improve on her skills 32. Luisa received a bonus from her
c. Give Lyn realistic job previews when supervisor. However, she says that it was
she was just applying for the job not clear to her why she got the bonus.
d. None of the above Which of the following factors in determining
the effectiveness of an incentive program
29. Based on Maslow's hierarchhy of needs, was not clear to her?
which of the following has the highest level
of satisfaction? a. Timing of the incentive
b. Fairness of the reward system
a. An employee who is now looking for a job c. Contingency of the consequences
wherein he would always be safe and where d. Type of incentive used
there is job security
b. An employee who is now looking for a job 33. A supervisor wants to reinforce a
which could help himpay for his bills at department in her company by giving them
home and his basic needs group incentives. Which of the following is
not a kind of group incentive?
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a. help distance you from a stressor 57. Nick, who is applying to become a
b. reduce blood pressure company driver, was seen positive in drug
c. put a new perspective on a situation use during his medical test which is in
d. laughter does all of these reality he has never been into drugs. The
validity of drug testing is now in question in
54. According to the personality and this situation. The result of Nick's drug
proficiency evidence data by Barrick et. al. testing may be called as:
(2001), better prediction of success for
customer service work is mostly related to a. False positive
what OCEAN personality factor/s? b. True positive
c. False negative
a. Extraversion d. True negative
b. Extraversion and conscientiousness
c. Agreeableness and openness
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58. When peer ratings are used, research c. that it is easier to organize the training
has found that high performers evaluate d. all of the above are advantages
their peers _______ low performers.
64. Sabrina sends all of her new employees
a. the same as to a self-esteem workshop. She must
b. more strictly than believe in _______.
c. more leniently than
d. none of these would be true a. Consistency theory
b. Equity theory
59. According to most research, subordinate c. Expectancy theory
feedback results in: d. Social Learning theory
63. An advantage of holding a training 68. You would like to hire employees who
session off-site is: will not miss work. Your best bet would be
to hire applicants who score high on the
a. the location can serve as a reward personality dimension of:
b. a reduction in training expenses
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80. If you want to check the presence of 85. When a person has the need for
unnecessary deadlines which result in perfection, is obsessed with task quality and
decreased quality in output, then you would constantly complains is in your group, then
look for: the best way to deal with them is to:
a. Task culture
b. Role culture
c. Person culture
d. Power culture
a. contingency of consequences
b. fairness of rewards
c. type of incentive used
d. number of perks received