structured interview

(noun)

A quantitative research method commonly employed in survey research where each potential employee is asked the same questions in the same order.

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Examples of structured interview in the following topics:

  • Employee Selection

    • Common selection tools include ability tests (cognitive, physical, or psychomotor), knowledge tests, personality tests, structured interviews, the systematic collection of biographical data, and work samples.

  • Communicating Organizational Culture

    • Some of the most critical of these are structure, hierarchy, mission and vision statements, employee handbooks, hiring processes, and employee training and initiation.
    • With many diverse tools for communicating culture comes the challenge of aligning each perspective for consistency of message: for instance, the employee training program must emphasize the same values as the mission statement and must match the executive mandate for organizational structure and design.
    • Human resource professionals are tasked with identifying candidates with culturally consistent perspectives and with underlining the importance of cultural considerations in interviews and on-boarding processes.
    • This organization triangle illustrates the idea that structure, process, and the people involved all contribute to the culture of an organization.

  • Common Targets of Organizational Change

    • Change management can be implemented to change an organization's mission, strategy, structure, technology, or culture.
    • Areas that need to change can be identified through interviews, focus groups, observation, and other methods of internal and external research.

  • The Big Five Personality Traits

    • These five factors are assumed to represent the basic structure behind all personality traits.
    • Personality tests can also be part of the behavioral interview process when a company is hiring to determine an individual's ability to act on certain personality characteristics.

  • Ownership Structures

  • Tactics for Improving Fit

    • Interviews: One-on-one, formal or informal interviews are also a useful tool in gathering data about the employee, allowing the supervisor to obtain more details than a survey provides.

  • Identify and Define the Problem

    • There are a number of ways to define a problem, such as creating a team to tackle it and gathering relevant data by interviewing employees and customers.
    • Interviews, focus groups, or other qualitative methods of data collection can be used to identify existing conditions that may be connected to the decision in question.

  • Matrix Structure

    • The matrix structure is a type of organizational structure in which individuals are grouped via two operational frames.
    • Organizations can be structured in various ways, and the structure of an organization determines how it operates and performs.
    • The matrix structure is a type of organizational structure in which individuals are grouped by two different operational perspectives simultaneously; this structure has both advantages and disadvantages but is generally best employed by companies large enough to justify the increased complexity.
    • This example illustrates how inherently complex matrix structures are in comparison to other, more linear structures.
    • In a matrix structure, the organization is grouped by both product and function.

  • Functional Structure

    • An organization with a functional structure is divided based on functional areas, such as IT, finance, or marketing.
    • An organization can be arranged according to a variety of structures, which determine how the organization will operate and perform.
    • Functional structures appear in a variety of organizations across many industries.
    • This organizational chart shows a broad functional structure at FedEx.
    • Explain the functional structure within the larger context of organizational structures in general

  • Divisional Structure

    • Organizations can be structured in various ways, with each structure determining the manner in which the organization operates and performs.
    • Product and geographic divisional structures may be characterized as follows:
    • A common legal structure known as the multidivisional form (or "M-form") also uses the divisional structure.
    • As with all organizational structure types, the divisional structure offers distinct advantages and disadvantages.
    • Describe the basic premise behind divisional structures within the general framework of organizational structure