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| Vorheriger Titel: | Smith, Mike: The theory and practice of systematic staff selection |
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Basingstoke [u.a.]
Macmillan
1993
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| Ausgabe: | 2. ed. |
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| Online-Zugang: | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Beschreibung: | XII, 329 S. graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 0333586514 0333586522 |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Tables and Figures ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xii
PARTI PREPARATION
1 Introduction and Ethical Issues 3
The context of selection 3
The essentials of a selection system 3
Ethical issues in selection and assessment 7
2 Job Analysis 14
The many uses of job descriptions 14
Methods of job analysis 15
More involved approaches to job analysis 19
Agreement and restructuring 27
Theoretical aspects of job analysis 28
3 Criteria 35
Importance of criteria 36 .
Levels of criteria 36
Types of criteria 38
Theoretical requirements of criteria 53
4 Personnel Specifications 60
Straightforward approaches to personnel specifications 60
More complex methods of producing personnel
specifications 63
Theoretical issues 71
5 Dealing with Candidates 74
Attracting a field of candidates 74
Recruitment media 74
v
vi Contents
Methods of application 81
Application forms 81
Curriculum vitae 82
Producing a shortlist 84
Theoretical issues in attracting a field of applicants 85
Some unanswered questions 88
^ PART II PSYCHOMETRICS
X 6 Requirements of Measures: Practicability, Sensitivity and
Reliability 93
Practicability of measures 93
Criterion based scoring systems 95
Norm based scoring systems 97
Reliability 102
Item response theory and latent trait theory 111
V 7 Requirements of Measures: Validity and Meta analysis 117
Definitions of validity 117
Types of validity 118
Evaluating validity coefficients 128
The relationship between reliability and validity 132
Validity generalisation 133
Meta analysis and validity generalisation 136
• 8 Bias in Selection 146
Discrimination and types of bias 146
Legal aspects of bias in selection 155
Checking the potential bias of selection devices 155
Affirmative action plans 156
Wider aspects of affirmative action 157
PART III SELECTION METHODS
9 Psychological Tests 161
Definition of psychological tests 161
Categories of psychological test 162
Contents vii
Specific psychological tests 167
Outline of test construction 179
Administrative aspects of test 182
Tailored testing 189
10 Traditional Selection Procedures 196
Interviews 196
References 210
11 Modern Selection Procedures 213
Work sample tests 213
Assessment centres 225
Biographical data (biodata) 232
12 Other Selection Methods 239
Self assessment 239
Peer evaluation 242
Graphology 243
Astrology 247
Honesty tests 250
Accomplishment records 251
Future autobiographies 251
PART IV EVALUATION
13 Making a Decision and Estimating the Value of Selection 255
Clinical versus actuarial 255
Actuarial approaches 255
Multiple vacancies for one job 258
Multiple vacancies for several jobs 261
Estimating the monetary value of selection 261 Y
Advanced methods of calculating monetary value 265 V
14 The Impact of Assessment, Selection and Feedback on
Candidates 275
Impact on candidates 275
Feedback to candidates 277
viii Contents
Appendix I Ordinates of the Normal Curve 283
Appendix II Standard Errors for Various Levels of Reliability 284
Appendix HI Expectancy Tables 285
Appendix IV Some Useful Formulae 289
Bibliography 294
Index 323
List of Tables and Figures
Tables
1.1 The use of various methods of selection in six countries 6
3.1 Some production indices used as criteria 39
3.2 Some personnel indices used as a criteria 41
3.3 Some ways of collecting judgemental data 46
5.1 Applicants use of, and success with, recruitment data 88
6.1 Sensitivity of five measures in selection 97
6.2 Interpretation of reliability coefficients 104
7.1 Demonstration of the effects of restriction of range and
attenuation of criteria 122
7.2 Hypothetical loadings for interview scores 127
7.3 Correlations between general mental ability test score
and work performance in eight different studies 137
Figures
1.1 The stages of systematic selection 5
1.2 Organisational Psychology Paradigm 7
2.1 Contents of job description 16
2.2 Example of job description 18
2.3 Advantages and disadvantages of nine methods of job
analysis 20
2.4 Fine s functional job analysis 22
2.5 Two examples of benchmarked scales similar to those
used by McCormick 26
2.6 A schematic analysis of job analysis 29
3.1 Improved rating scales 48
3.2 An example of a behaviourally anchored rating scale 49
3.3 Hypothetical reliabilities of sales figures based on
different time periods 55
4.1 Rodger s seven point plan 61
4.2 Example of a personnel specification 62
4.3 Abbreviated aptitude profile for the job of setter 64
4.4 Schematic representation of Vernon s model of
intelligence 66
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x List of Tables and Figures
4.5 Some interest and personal values categories 70
5.1 Guidelines for producing newspaper advertisements 79
5.2 Checklist for constructing an application form 82
5.3 Checklist for contents of application forms 83
5.4 Use of, and satisfaction with, recruitment media 89
6.1 Main costs in a selection system 95
6.2 Normal curve showing height of a sample of 36 women 100
6.3 Two examples of a normal curve showing how mean
and standard deviation may vary 100
6.4 Basic item analysis for a hypothetical test of short term
memory 113
6.5 Item analysis for a hypothetical item in a test of short
term memory 114
7.1 Example of a scattergram between a predictor (in this
case a test) and a criterion 120
7.2 Statistical power and type II error 140
7.3 Meta analysis formulae 142
7.4 A worked example of a bare bones meta analysis 143
8.1 Bias in selection using quadrant analysis 152
9.1 Some tests of mental ability 171
9.2 Correct method of drawing psychometric profiles 188
11.1 Work sampling and traditional approaches 214
11.2 Selected contents from a departmental manager s in
tray exercise 218
11.3 Bricklaying trainability test 222
11.4 Dimensions assessed by two assessment centre exercises 227
11.5 The flow of assessment centre information 228
11.6 Some of the factors moderating the validity of
assessment centres 231
13.1 Complications in profile matching 259
13.2 Relating predictors to performance using a scattergram 260
13.3 CPOAT grades and efficiency of selection 263
13.4 Ghiselli Brown nomograph for estimating
improvement in productivity from selection 266
13.5 Selection at random 268
13.6 Perfect selection 269
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