PSYC 544848 - You run a small company that provides

You run a small company that provides I/O consulting services to large corporations. You have decided that you are in need of an additional administrative assistant. In preparation for this, you decide to complete a___________ to accurately determine what this new employee's roles and responsibilities will be. The results of this helped you create a__________ that you use to recruit the right candidate.

You find two potential candidates with impressive resumes and decide to call them in to interview with two of your department managers. You notice that one of your managers walks into the interview room with a clipboard and a list of questions, you assume that she is likely going to conduct a_________ interview. You observe that your other department manager appears to be having a casual conversation with the candidate he is interviewing, leading you to believe that he is conducting a________ interview. You and your managers agree that one of the two candidates is a better fit for your company and you hire her. On her first day as your employee, she must attend________ , an all-day training. She will also receive___________ training working alongside an experienced administrative assistant for the first several weeks.

It has now been 2 months and the employee has successfully passed the probation period. You contact her to request a time that she can meet with you for her first___________ . You would like to gather as much information about how she has adjusted to her role and responsibilities so you decide to employ a____________ evaluation method, asking the employee, her managers, and her fellow co-workers to rate her. You notice that one of your managers scores this employee low across multiple domains while everyone else scores her average and above average. When you discuss this with him, he keeps bringing up a recent conflict that they had over some paperwork that she misplaced and, although he admits that this is the only negative incident that he has experienced with her, he states that he feels very strongly that this event is indicative of her overall work performance. You suspect that the manager is showing some bias in his judgment, possibly based on the_______.

One week later, you meet with your employee to discuss her experience over the past two months. You provide praise for areas that she is excelling in and discuss areas that she has shown some struggles in, such as keeping important files in order. You provide a possible solution to this issue such as using a color-coded folders to keep track of different departmental forms. Your employee discloses that she does not feel confident that she will be able to keep up with this system, indicating low___________ with organizational skills. You assure her that once she gets used to the color-coded system, she will gain confidence in this area. You check in with her one month later and find that she has in fact successfully adopted the color coded system and has not misplaced anymore files!

? Bob and his friends find a bag full of cash on the subway train they are riding. The group has decided to keep the money and split it amongst themselves instead of turning it in to the police. Match the groupthink "symptom" that best describes the statement Bob might make to himself to justify the decision to go along with this plan:

1. Direct conformity pressure

2. Illusion of unanimity

3. Self-censorship

4. Illusion of invulnerability

5. Illusion of morality

Match these answers (A-E) with the choices given above -

A. "There's no way we are going to get caught, no one saw that the bag wasn't ours."

B. "This money probably belongs to drug dealers and if they had it they would buy more drugs to sell to innocent people, so it's in better hands with us. At least we can do something good with it."

C. "Everyone seems to be in agreement to take the money so I might as well go along."

D. "I think we should turn in the money but I'm not going to say anything."

E. "Joe just looked at me funny, I think the other guys will just take my share if I say no and then threaten me."