1. What are the biggest pitfalls employers need to be concerned about when drafting offer of employment letters or contracts? What steps can be taken to avoid or minimize the likelihood of problems with offers of employment?

2. What is the difference between judgmental and statistical approaches to the collection and combination of applicant information?

3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the following decision-making models?

a. Rational weighting

b. Regression models

c. Multiple hurdle

d. Multiple cutoff

e. Profile matching

4. Why do organizations tend to use groups to make selection decisions? What are the advantages and disadvantages of group decision making?

5. Why is it better to use predictors that are uncorrelated or that have a low correlation with each other than predictors that are highly correlated with each other?

6. Discuss the differences among cutoff scores, banding, and top-down selection. Is any one of these more advantageous to use than the others? If so, under what circumstances?

7. What are the common decision-making errors made in employee selection? Can these be eliminated? If so, how? If they cannot be eliminated, can they be reduced? If so, how?

8. Discuss the benefits of using best practices in recruitment and selection.

9. Explain, giving examples the following terms:

(i) Opportunity Cost

(ii) Social Costs.

10. Discuss whether businesses should continue to manufacture products

from the factory that pollutes the local environment