The Scranton Life Insurance Company gives the NEO-PI to its current sales people. An analysis of the data shows that sales people who score high in extraversion tend to have the greatest number of sales each year
Based on this data, the company can now use the NEO-PI to hire the applicants who are most likely to succeed. This process is an example of
A) job analysis.
B) a validation study.
C) cognition-based selection testing.
D) performance appraisal.
Answer: B
Rationale: In validation studies, researchers administer tests to a large sample of incumbents and evaluate their performance to find correlations between job performance and personality traits or cognitive abilities.
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