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Which of the following is a current trend in I-O psychology?

State laws that prevent employers from asking about criminal history on a job application are called ____.

At a construction company, managers are required to place 10% of their employees into the high performance category, 60% into the medium performance category, and 30% in the low performance category. This is an example of a(n) _____ system.

Research has found that people with high credit scores are high on agreeableness.

Target is a large discount retail company in the U.S., and Google is a large technology company. When leaders at Target review a case study about an employee practice at Google, they ____.

_____ questions focus on an applicant’s education and past work and life experiences to predict how well the applicant can perform the job.

An I-O psychologist investigates the relationship between a test’s font (bold font or regular font) and test performance. After randomly assigning 100 workers to two conditions, she finds that workers who take tests with bold font receive higher test scores than workers who take tests with regular font. The independent variable in this scenario is:

One reason for the increased use of personality tests for selection is that these tests have _____.

Shrinkage is the degree to which organizational materials, inventory, or supplies disappear.

A company’s CEO is usually used as an SME in a job analysis.