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. O 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 O 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 O Contains expanded discussion of research and practice in the US and internationally, while maintaining the definitive coverage of UK and European selection approaches O 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 6 Tests of mental ability 110 a man of paralysing stupidity 7 Assessing personality by questionnaire 138 Do you worry about awful things that might happen? 8 Alternative ways of assessing personality 173 What year was the Bataan death march? 9 Biodata and weighted application blanks 192 How old were you when you learned to swim? 10 Assessment centres 207 Does your face fit? 11 Emotional intelligence and other methods 227 Success in work is 80% dependent on emotional intelligence 12 Criteria of work performance 246 the successful employee does more work, does it better, with less supervision 13 Minorities, fairness and the law 268 Getting the numbers right 14 The value of good employees 289 The best is twice as good as the worst 15 Conclusions 307 Calculating the cost of smugness References 319 Index 348
Accessing your eBook through Kortext
Once purchased, you can view your eBook through the Kortext app, available to download for Windows, Android and iOS devices. Once you have downloaded the app, your eBook will be available on your Kortext digital bookshelf and can even be downloaded to view offline anytime, anywhere, helping you learn without limits.
In addition, you'll have access to Kortext's smart study tools including highlighting, notetaking, copy and paste, and easy reference export.
To download the Kortext app, head to your device's app store or visit https://app.kortext.com to sign up and read through your browser.
NB: eBook is only available for a single-user licence (i.e. not for multiple / networked users).
