ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN HR MANAGEMENT
Assume that after working for several years you returned to graduate school to take some advanced courses and earn a master’s degree as a way of improving both your specific job skills and your overall prospects for career advancement. While your degree program was relatively technical in nature, you did take a course in industrial psychology. One of the topics covered in this course was personality testing and measurement. In a term paper for this course, you thoroughly studied and reviewed the most popular personality tests used by companies as selection techniques. You recently completed your degree and are now looking for a new position. You are especially interested in working for one particular company, and this firm is also actively considering you. As part of its selection process, the firm has requested that you complete a battery of tests, including some personality measures. Because you (1) understand these tests so well and (2) have a good understanding of the type of person the firm is looking for, you know that you can answer the questions in the personality measure so as to make you a near-perfect candidate for the job. On the other hand, you also know that the personality traits the company is seeking, and on which you can score highly, are not exactly descriptive of your own personality. But you also believe that you are so highly motivated that you will excel if given the right opportunity.
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What do you think most job seekers would do? What would you do?
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