MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS (Industrial Psychology)

1. Time and motion studies focus on

A) The time and effort it takes to train a new employee.

B) The number of physical motions required to complete a work-related task.

C) The ways in which machines can be built to make humans safer and more efficient.

D) Ways to avoid injury in tasks that require repetitive motion.

2. Which of the following is most focused on the characteristics of the worker?

A) Ergonomics

B) Human relations approach

C) Scientific management

D) Industrial psychology

3. Asking an interviewee for a job whether she views lying in a negative light is an example of a(n)

A) Biographical inventory.

B) Integrity test.

C) Interviewer illusion.

D) Structured interview.

4. A supervisor who rates all her employees harshly on their annual assessments is engaging in

A) A leniency error.

B) The halo effect.

C) A central tendency error.

D) A severity error.

5. Which of the following is an example of 360-degree feedback?

 A) An employee receiving feedback on her ability to successfully demonstrate required
knowledge, skills, and abilities

B) An employee receiving feedback that has been completed by two supervisors, so as to

avoid rating errors

C) An employee evaluating her own performance and sharing that with her supervisor

D) An employee receiving feedback from her supervisor, her peer, and her subordinate

6. Which of the following is an example of a Theory Y management strategy?

A) Providing employees with a predictable work day that does not deviate from week-to-
week

B) Encouraging employees to take responsibility for their own work activities

C) Setting up routes of communication so that employees speak with their immediate

supervisors; supervisors speak to managers; and managers speak to owners/CEOs

D) Punishing employees for being tardy to work

7. Allowing employees to focus in on job activities that are most consistent with their individual
talents is an example of

A) strengths-based management.

B) Theory X management.

C) Employee commitment.

D) Transactional leadership.

8. An employee who decides to stay at a workplace because she is concerned about the lack of
other job prospects or because she does not want to relocate has

A) Affective commitment.

B) Normative commitment.

C) Continuance commitment.

D) Cognitive commitment.
9. Rank the following views of people's work in order from least amount of personal meaning to
most.

A) Career, job, calling

B) Calling, job, career

C) Job, career, calling

D) Career, calling, job

10. Which of the following is an example of role conflict?

A) A worker who is going through a divorce and is unable to complete his job
responsibilities

B) A worker who is having conflict with one of her subordinates

C) A worker who has just been promoted to supervisor and who is having problems relating
to her supervisees

D) A worker who is being sexually harassed by his co-worker

11. The field of study that combines engineering with psychology to create products that are safe
and efficient for people to use is called

A) Scientific management.

B) Hawthorne studies.

C) Human relations.

D) Ergonomics.

12. A job analysis includes a focus on which of the following?

A) The economic value of a specified occupation

B) Employee selection

C) Creation of an employee manual

 D) Providing employees with feedback about their job performance

13. An interviewer feels certain that he can tell who is lying in a job interview. His certainty in his
ability is an example of

A) The halo effect.

B) Selection bias.

C) Central tendency bias.

D) Interviewer illusion.

14. Sandy is interviewing for a job as a technical writer. She is asked to provide the interviewer with
a five-page example of her writing. This example of her writing is known as a(n)

A) Work sample.

B) Exercise.

C) Hawthorne effect.

D) Personnel selection.

15. A worker who feels a personal stake in the company and whose ideas are valued by the company will
likely

A) Perform poorly.

B) Perform well when a supervisor is present but perform poorly when alone.

C) Perform well.

D) Perform poorly when a supervisor is present but perform well when alone.

*BOLD OPTIONS ARE THE RIGHT ANSWERS