What Selection Theory Claims

Teresa Carla Oliveira
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Teresa Carla Oliveira: University of Coimbra

Chapter 1 in Rethinking Interviewing and Personnel Selection, 2015, pp 7-19 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Mainstream selection theory is normative in claiming that an interview should be premised only on overt criteria; that managers as selectors should rely only on inference from candidates’ attributes and avoid sensing, feeling or intuition in decision-making. Such theory is the ‘highway code’ of selection methods. In particular, no interviewer should ‘go it alone’ and trail ‘off road’ in semi-structured or unstructured dialogue with candidates that may involve questions not put to all of them in the same way.

Keywords: Turnover Intention; Psychological Contract; Selection Theory; Unstructured Interview; Personnel Selection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137497352_2

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