Personnel Selection Adding Value Through People - A Changing Picture [Hardcover]

This is a fully updated edition of Personnel Selection, a seminal text on the psychometric approach to personnel selection by a noted expert in the field.

• Focuses on cutting-edge topics including the influence of social networking sites, adverse impact, age differences and stereotypes, distribution of work performance, and the problems of selecting new employees using research based on incumbent employees
• Questions established beliefs in the field, especially issues that have been characterized as “not a problem,” such as differential validity, over-reliance on self-report, and “faking good”
• Contains expanded discussion of research and practice in the US and internationally, while maintaining the definitive coverage of UK and European selection approaches
• Provides comprehensive yet accessible information for professionals and students, as well as helpful pedagogical tools (technical and statistical boxes, simplified figures and tables, research agenda boxes, key point summaries, and key references)

Preface to the sixth edition vii

Preface to the first edition ix

1 Old and new selection methods 1

We’ve always done it this way

2 Validity of selection methods 25

How do you know it works?

3 Job description, work analysis and competences 55

If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up somewhere else

4 The interview 71

‘I know one when I see one’

5 References and ratings 94

The eye of the beholder

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