Q1- Which of the following most likely indicates surface-level similarity?

A) Tim and Jake are colleagues who take risks and are quick decision makers.

B) The employees at GenSys prefer teamwork over individual assignments.

C) Nina and Chuck are colleagues who share similar views on corporate social responsibility.

D) Jane and Sara grew up in the same town and went to school together.

E) Hannah and Nate are both introspective and tend to be slow to reach decisions.

Q2- Which of the following best represents deep-level similarity?

A) colleagues who both come from the same neighborhood in Alabama

B) employees who are college graduates with a degree in business management

C) employees who speak Spanish and share similar religious beliefs

D) employees who seek challenges in assignments and like to work collaboratively

E) employees in their mid-thirties with 10 years' work experience in the publishing industry

Q3- Malcolm Industries recently hired a large number of workers for the company's new construction factory in Colorado. During the hiring process, the management made a clear effort to recruit physically strong individuals because the work at the factory involves manual labor. The jobs need to be performed by individuals who have the energy and physical stamina to work for long hours. Which of the following surface-level characteristics did the company most likely concentrate on when selecting the new workers?

A) age

B) values

C) beliefs

D) religion

E) personality

Q4- Which of the following is the most likely reason why employers should employ older workers?

A) They adjust to new technology promptly.

B) Older workers have extensive work experience.

C) Older workers are flexible and learn quickly.

D) They have shorter tenures and hence lower pension benefits than younger workers.

E) The rates of unavoidable absences are lower than those of younger workers.

Q5- Green Planet, an environmental organization, recently opened an office in Indonesia. The organization is currently looking for employees to staff a deforestation project in the country. They need to recruit individuals who understand the intricacies of Jakarta's culture and the mindset of the locals and are fluent in the local language. Which of the following are they most likely to consider while they recruit for these positions?

A) race

B) age

C) beliefs

D) gender

E) length of service

Q6- Older people are more likely to quit and change jobs than younger employees.

True.

False.

Q7- In general, older employees have lower rates of avoidable absence than do younger employees. However, they have equal rates of unavoidable absence, such as sickness absences.

A)True

B) False

Q8- ________ may be defined as an individual's current capacity to perform the various tasks in a job.

A) Ability

B) Age

C) Duty

D) Role

E) Tenure

Q9-________ refers to an overall factor of intelligence as suggested by the positive correlations among specific intellectual ability dimensions.

A) General mental ability

B) Malleable intelligence

C) Extelligence

D) The Flynn effect

E) Virtual memory