Personnel Selection: A Theoretical Approach [Hardcover]

'No doubt HRM faculty should read this text. ...there is undoubtedly erudition and insight contained within the pages. [of this book]' - Gerald Vinten, Southampton Business School, British Academy of Management News

This comprehensive, state-of-the-art look at the field of personnel selection emphasizes the role of theory in personnel selection research, an area of organizational science that is often characterized as lacking theoretical bases. Traditional topics, such as job analysis, performance measurement, the measurement of individual difference characteristics, the design of validation research and the evaluation of validation data, are covered.'No doubt HRM faculty should read this text. ...there is undoubtedly erudition and insight contained within the pages. [of this book]' - Gerald Vinten, Southampton Business School, British Academy of Management News

This comprehensive, state-of-the-art look at the field of personnel selection emphasizes the role of theory in personnel selection research, an area of organizational science that is often characterized as lacking theoretical bases. Traditional topics, such as job analysis, performance measurement, the measurement of individual difference characteristics, the design of validation research and the evaluation of validation data, are covered.

. . . contains an abundant supply of ideas for those who specialize in research, and has much to offer the practitioner also.  

Personnel Selection Research
Importance, Research Designs and Examples
Developing Theories of KSAO-Performance Relationships
The Role of Job Analysis
The Nature of Work
Performance and Its Measurement
General Theories of Human Characteristics and KSAO-Performance Relationships
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