PHR (Professional in Human Resources) Practice Questions — All Questions

A job description is used to:

• a.Set the company's tax rate
• b.Define a role's duties and requirements to guide hiring and evaluation✓
• c.Replace interviews
• d.Calculate depreciation

Job descriptions define duties and qualifications, guiding recruiting and performance.

Selection criteria should be:

• a.Job-related and applied consistently to all candidates✓
• b.Based on personal friendship
• c.Different for each candidate
• d.Kept secret from hiring managers

Valid selection is job-related and applied consistently to avoid discrimination.

Adverse (disparate) impact occurs when a neutral practice:

• a.Helps all groups equally
• b.Is clearly intentional bias only
• c.Disproportionately screens out a protected group✓
• d.Improves diversity

Disparate impact is an unintentional but disproportionate effect on a protected group.

A structured interview improves hiring by:

• a.Allowing random questions
• b.Focusing on unrelated traits
• c.Removing all criteria
• d.Asking all candidates the same job-related questions✓

Structured interviews use consistent, job-related questions, improving fairness and validity.