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Employee Selection
Chapter 15 of Human Resource Management in a Business Context
(3rd Edition 2007) by Alan Price - published by Cengage
Contents
Objectives
The purpose of this chapter is to:
- Evaluate the screening or preselection stage of employee resourcing
- Introduce the concepts of validity and reliability in relation to different selection methods
- Provide a critical overview of selection methods
- Investigate the frequency of use of different selection methods
Sections
- Resourcing decisions
- Psychometric tests
- Criticism of psychological testing
- Interviewing
- Evaluating methods
- Interviews re-visited
- Work samples
- Assessment centres
- Graphology
Summary
In free market countries, the personnel profession has adopted a 'best practice'
model which fits the prevailing business ideology. This model prescribes a quest for
the 'right (best) person for the job'. To achieve this goal, criteria are used to rate
prospective applicants by means of selection techniques, including biographical data,
interviews, psychometric tests, group exercises, simulated work samples and even
handwriting analysis. The most definitive form of selection is likely to take place
within the context of assessment centres, which involve several assessors and a variety
of selection techniques. The 'best-person' or psychometric model has achieved the status
of orthodoxy in free market countries. Elsewhere different models of resourcing apply.
For example, in Japan there is a greater concern with personality and background than
presumed ability. Recruits are sought who will 'fit in' with the culture of the
corporation; who will be content to build a career within the organization; who will
absorb the goals of the organization.
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