Choosing Entrants into a Management Training Program - Come As You Are Choosing Entrants into a Management Training Program Come As You Are, a convenience store chain headquartered in Fayetteville, Arkan- sas, has developed an assessment program to promote nonexempt employees into its management training program. The minimum entrance requirements for the program are five years of company experience, a college degree from an accred. ited university, and a minimum acceptable job performance rating (3 or higher on a 1-5 scale). Anyone interested in applying for the management program can enroll in the half-day assessment program, where the following assessments are made: 1. Cognitive ability test 2. Integrity test 3. Signed permission for background test 4. Brief (30-minute) in prview by various members of the management team 5. Drug test At the Hot Springs store, 11 employees have applied for openings in the manage ment training program. The selection information on the candidates is provided in the following exhibit. (The scoring key is provided at the bottom of the exhibit.) It is estimated that three slots in the program are available for qualified candidates from the Hot Springs location. Given this information and what you know about external and internal selection, as well as staffing decision making, answer the fol lowing questions: EXHIBIT Predictor Scores for 11 Applicants to Management Training Program Performance Rating 3 Name Radhu Merv Marianne Helmut Siobhan Galina Raul Frank Osvaldo Byron Aletha Scole Company Experience 4 12 9 5 16 2 6 9 10 18 11 Year College Degree Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes NO Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No 4 4 5 3 4 5 4 Cognitive integrity Background interview Ability Test Test Test Rating 9 6 OK 6 3 6 OK 8 5 Arrest 95 4 5 S OK 4. 7 8 OK 8 3 4 OK 6 7 OK 2 5 OK 7 10 9 OK 3 3 7 OK 6 7 6 OK 5 1-10 1-10 OK-Other 1-10 Drug Test P P P P P P P P P P P PF Answer the following: 1) Who would you select into the training program? 2) Using your team's decided approach from class, what are your weights being used? How did you decide this? 3) Show how you apply the weights to all applicable candidate's data to derive at your decision. An excel spreadsheet is required to demonstrate your calculations