Human Resource Management: Why Job Interviews Predict So Little
How organizations design jobs, plan, hire, train, rate, pay and keep people, and what the evidence says works.
Human Resource Management · 50 questions
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1. A job description lists a role's duties. What does a job specification list?
- The skills and qualifications required
- The names of the role's past holders
- The salary range and benefits offered
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Answer: The skills and qualifications required
Job analysis produces both: the description covers what the job involves, the specification covers what the person needs to do it.
2. Which is NOT one of the five core job characteristics in Hackman and Oldham's model?
- Autonomy
- Pay level
- Task significance
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Answer: Pay level
The five are skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy and feedback; pay is not among the job's core characteristics.
3. Giving a worker more authority to plan and control their own work is an example of what?
- Job enlargement
- Job rotation
- Job enrichment
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Answer: Job enrichment
Enrichment adds depth such as responsibility and autonomy; enlargement adds more tasks at the same level; rotation moves people between jobs.
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