Essentials of Personnel Assessment and Selection [Hardcover]

This second edition provides managers and students the nuts and bolts of assessment processes and selection techniques. With this knowledge, managers learn to make informed personnel decisions based on the results of tests and assessments. The book emphasizes that employee performance predictions require well-formed hypotheses about personal characteristics that may be related to valued behavior at work. It also stresses the need for developing a theory of the attribute one hypothesizes as a predictora thought process too often missing from work on selection procedures. Topics such as team-member selection, situational judgment tests, nontraditional tests, individual assessment, and testing for diversity are explored. The book covers both basic and advanced concepts in personnel selection in a straightforward, readable style intended to be used in both undergraduate and graduate courses in Personnel Selection and Assessment.

Part 1: Deciding What to Assess1. Understanding Personnel Assessment2. Analyzing Organizations and Jobs3. Developing Predictive Hypotheses4. Knowing Whats Legal (and Whats Not)Part 2: Knowing How to Assess 5. Minimizing Error in Measurement6. Predicting Future Performance7. Using Multivariate Statistics8. Making Judgments and Decisions9. Analyzing Bias and Ensuring FairnessPart 3: Choosing the Right Method 10. Assessing via Traditional Tests11. Assessing via Inventories and Interviews12. Assessing via Ratings13. Individual and Group Assessment

Scott Highhouse is a Professor and Ohio Eminent Scholar in the Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, USA. Scott is Founding Editor of the journal Personnel Assessment and Decisionsand serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Applied lãÜ