Scenario Summary Students are asked to assume that after working for several yea

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Students are asked to assume that after working for several years, they returned to graduate school to take some advanced courses and earn a master’s degree as a way of improving both their specific job skills and their overall prospects for career management. They also took a course in industrial psychology and one of the topics covered was personality testing and measurement. They thoroughly studied and reviewed the most popular personality tests used by companies as selection techniques.

Students are then asked to assume that they are now applying for a job within a company they particularly want to work for. The company’s selection process includes a personality test. The student as a job applicant knows that he or she can answer the questions well enough to seem a near-perfect candidate for the job. However, these answers would not reflect the job applicant’s true personality.

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1.    What are the ethical issues in this situation?

2.    What are the basic arguments for and against “cheating” on the personality tests?

3.    What do you think most job seekers would do? What would you do?

Explanation / Answer

1. Ethical issues are the company wont get the deserving candidate as this personal test will not reveal the actual charactersitcs and potential of a candidate. They will pretent to be genuine and will make a cookedup presentation through personality test to grab the job. They are already trained through their pedagogy regarding how to attend personality test for jobs. They throughly prepared for various aspctes covered in the test, thus the test will become another text book type knowledge test.

2.Cheting on personality test is not a crime. There is a human tendancy to built an impression management. Thus for ll test the candidate will pretend to be most genuine. Thus there is nothing like cheating, its all about selling themself in the best way.

3.Most job seekers will attend the personality test with prejudiced min and to try to present in the better way accroding to the requirement. They will understand the question and answer based on company perspective rather than personal perspective. The same will happen from most of the person. Rather being genuine dipolomatic is the best way to crack such tests.

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