chapter 1 understanding personnel assessment chapter 11
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chapter 1 1
Chapter 1
Understanding Personnel Assessment
chapter 1 2
Chap 1
• Assumptions• Validation and Its Limitations• Theory and Practice
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Chapter 1
• Need to demonstrate:– Need for HR (ROI)– For talent acquisition and management • (focus of this course)
– A high cost for bad hires!• ? High vs. low level positions• ? Cf personnel high expensive equipment
• How would you demonstrate HR value?
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Wise Decisions
• Each hire is a big commitment for both– The employee and organization• ? What are the implications for each?
• Should hiring be based or merit?– What does merit mean?• How can you assess merit?
– Or some other reasons?
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Role of Research in StaffingHow did Gideon use self-selection?
Can we depend upon dogmatic authority for selection?
• Fundamental Assumptions (Freyd, 1923):
– Human abilities are • normally distributed and • Measureable• Stable• What are some?
– Different jobs require different attributes• Give some examples
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Role of Research
• Steps in traditional validation:– Job analysis • What is done, what attributes and resources are
– Criterion (what’s to be predicted)• What is performance? A Result or behavior?• How do you measure performance?
– Use sales as an example
– Form a predictive hypothesis• For a sports athlete?
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Research
• Select methods of measurement– What are the value of tests and inventories?– What other methods can be validated?
• Design the research– Purpose is to generalize • What does that mean?• Cf multiple hurdle and compensatory –e.g.?
• Collect data• Evaluate results –validate the predictor
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• Validation designs:– Using “Present employees” v. “future employees”• What are these called?• What are the relative advantages of each?
– Problems with traditional research:• N – 30 or 300? • What role does N play in VG?• need for judgment• Global for specific assessments
– “whole person” =when should this be considered?
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Theory (academic) and
Practice (consultant)
• What’s the value of theory?• How to reconcile them– Client demands v. good practice– When do you compromise? How much?
• clinical judgment v. statistical- what’s the difference?- Which is better?